Claire Mahon
Researcher
Claire Mahon is an international human rights lawyer based in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the Joint Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.
She currently co-teaches an intensive masters course on “The Defence of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Theory and Practice” at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) as part of the International Masters of Advanced Studies (IMAS) program. Along with her colleague, Christophe Golay, she co-organises an annual Executive Education Training Course on “Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, jointly hosted by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and IHEID.
Claire has previously worked for NGOs such as Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Service for Human Rights, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, and the UN, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme. In 2007-2008 Claire worked with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food at the Research Unit on the Right to Food.
Claire holds a Diplôme d’études approfondies (Masters equivalent) in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies; a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) from the Australian National University (ANU); a Bachelor of Arts (International Relations and Development Studies) from ANU; and is completing a Ph.D on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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