Staff
and Interns
A
staff team of ten, including the Executive Director, takes care
of the coordination and implementation of all projects by IWRAW
Asia Pacific.
Executive
Director
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Tulika Srivastava
A lawyer by profession and
a feminist by orientation, Tulika has vast experience in
women’s human rights and gender issues. She has been part
of the IWRAW Asia Pacific since 1994 and was part of the first
training of trainers organized by IWRAW Asia Pacific in Dhaka
, Bangladesh .
In 1998, she, with six other
women, founded Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives
(AALI), which she led as Team Leader for the past 8 years. She
was responsible for strategic direction and designing,
resourcing and implementing all the programs/projects undertaken
by AALI. Tulika worked extensively for the formulation
of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women and represented IWRAW
Asia Pacific in the process. She was also working with the IWRAW
Asia Pacific team on the on-going negotiations for the
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights.
Her professional experience
includes working as a freelance consultant with various
UN agencies and international non-governmental organizations.
She is strongly committed to the organization's vision
and aims to helm IWRAW Asia Pacific into its second decade of
progressive interpretation, universalisation, implementation
and realisation of women's human rights through the lens of
CEDAW and other international human rights treaties. .
Deputy
Executive Director
- Prior to
joining us, Yew Bee Yee had more than 16 years
of working experience with the Gender and Development (GAD)
Programme of a regional intergovernmental organisation. Its
main focus of work was on research, training, policy intervention
and information dissemination on key gender and development
issues. Besides this, she has six years of teaching experience
and four years of management experience in the corporate sector.
She holds a Bachelors of Economics and a Postgraduate Diploma
of Education from the University of Malaya.
Programme
Officers
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International
Advocacy: Janine Moussa
B.A. Political Science, McGill University, J.D. Washington College
of Law, American University. Janine has been involved with human
rights and women’s rights issues since the mid-1990s.
She has worked with NGOs, academic institutions, and most recently
with the Special Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women at the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization
of American States. Her work has principally focused in the
are of women’s rights and international law. She has conducted
extensive research in areas of violence against women and has
also been in hearings and litigation within the Inter-American
System.
- Global
to Local : Lee Wei San
Bachelor of Law (Hons.) from the University of Sheffield
, United Kingdom (1999). Wei San was called to the Malaysian
Bar in 2001 and practiced in the field of corporate and construction
law. Prior to joining IWRAW Asia Pacific as a full time programme
officer, she worked as project coordinator for the Global Consultation
on the OP-CEDAW held in August 2005. She also volunteers at
the Women’s Aid Organisation, Malaysia.
- Information and Communications: Audrey
Lee
L.LB (Hons) University of Nottingham (1996), P.G. Dip. Mass
Communications University of Leicester (2006) Prior to joining
IWRAW Asia Pacific, she worked as a project manager and (policy)
researcher in the private education industry and was also a
researcher at the World Enterprise Institute, a policy organ
working on socio-economic issues.
Administration
and Finance Team
- Administration
and Finance Officer: Liew Siew Yan
B.A. Anthropology and Sociology, University Malaya (Malaysia);
and London Chamber of Commerce Certificate (L.C.C. Intermediate).
Siew Yan has worked as a human resources and accounts assistant
in various companies before joining IWRAW Asia Pacific. This
is her first experience working with an NGO.
- Administration
and Finance Officer: Azlini Abdul Ghani
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (majoring in Accountancy).
Worked for ten years in the accounts and administration departments
of several firms. Was also with the Asia Pacific Forum for Women,
Law and Development (APWLD) previously, as an accounts and administrative
officer. This is Azlini's second involvement with IWRAW Asia
Pacific, having been employed as a Programme Assistant in February
1998 before leaving in November 2000 to practice homeopathy
on a full-time basis. She rejoined the organisation in December
2003.
- Administrative
/ Information and Communication Officer: Rosfaizai (Ezza) Che
Ramli
Diploma in Information Technology, Kolej Agama Sultan Zainal
Abidin, Kuala Terengganu (Malaysia). Prior to IWRAW Asia Pacific,
Ezza worked as an IT Officer in Kolej Uniti Port Dickson.
Consultants/Researchers/Others
Intern
Current
Interns
Past
Interns (2002-2008)
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Meredith
Kennedy
Meredith
is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts, with History major
and French minor, and Bachelor of Laws at Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia. She volunteers at the Women’s Legal
Service, Victoria. Meredith is a Castan Centre for Human Rights
intern who joined IWRAW-AP from December 2007 to February 2008.
During her time at IWRAW-AP she has focused on re-drafting the
Lawyers Training Manual. She has also worked on a paper concerning
Australia’s family law reforms and their compliance with
CEDAW.
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Julia
Berry
Graduated summa cum laude from New York University
in 2006 with a B.A. in International Relations, where she wrote
her senior honors thesis on the empirical efficacy of the CEDAW
treaty. Currently a law student at New York University , Julia
has joined IWRAW Asia Pacific for the summer of 2007 as an International
Law and Human Rights Student Fellow through NYU’s Center
for Human Rights and Global Justice. As an IWRAW intern, she
is re-drafting the Global to Local Training Programme to aid
NGOs in the UN reporting process. At NYU, Julia is an active
member of Law Students for Human Rights, the International Law
Society, and the Battered Women’s Project.
- Rachael Hopkins
Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Women’s Studies at Monash
University , Melbourne , Australia . Rachael is currently completing
her Bachelor of Laws at Monash University , and volunteers at
the Women’s Legal Service, Victoria. Rachael was an intern
at IWRAW Asia Pacific from December 2006 to February 2007 as
part of the Castan Centre for Human Rights internship programme
at Monash University . During her time at IWRAW Asia Pacific,
she completed a paper on reservations to CEDAW, and religion,
culture and tradition. The paper focuses on how religion, culture
and tradition can significantly impede a women's ability to
enjoy and exercise fundamental rights, and how to effect positive
change.
- Jennifer S. Hainsfurther
B.A. Political Science and Women's Studies
from Duke University , with honours. Currently an Institute
of International Law and Justice Scholar at NYU, where she will
get her Juris Doctor and LLM in international law. She is at
IWRAW Asia Pacific from June-August 2006 as part of the NYU
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice summer fellowship
programme and will work on a paper on the strengthening of rights
in the areas of globalisation, trade and migration. At NYU,
she is a board member of Law Women and the Unemployment
Action Center .
- Rubiahna Vaughn
Bachelors from Stanford University
in Human Biology, with Interdisciplinary Honors in Latin American
Studies and a minor in African and African American Studies.
Rubiahna is a 2005-2006 Henry Luce Scholar in Malaysia with
special attachment to the Health Research Development Unit of
Universiti Malaya. She is currently working on a paper on CEDAW
and women’s right to health at IWRAW Asia Pacific. Upon
her return to the United States , she will begin her Masters
in Public Health at Columbia University with a concentration
in Sociomedical Sciences.
- Jaime
Kelly
Joint B.A. in Anthropology and Political Science, a minor in
International Development Studies, and graduated with honours
from McGill University in 2000. Currently, Jaime is finishing
a Master's in Public Administration and a Master’s in
International Relations while pursuing a certificate in Advanced
Studies in Conflict Resolution at the Maxwell School of Syracuse
University. She focuses on non-profit management, intercultural
communication and negotiation, and applied dispute resolution
and conflict management with a regional focus on East Asia.
She is also Associate Coordinator of the Syracuse University
Conflict Management Center (2004-5).
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Elizabeth Sepper
B.A. from
Boston University in history, summa cum laude, with minors in
French and Italian in 2002. A second year law student at New
York University School of Law, Liz is a junior fellow in the
Institute of International Law and Justice at NYU where she
will work on a LLM. in international law after receiving her
Juris Doctor. She plans to focus on immigration and human rights
on an international as well as domestic basis. At NYU, she is
also involved with Law Students for Human Rights and the Mediation
Organization.
- Mante
Molepo
B.A. Honours,
Law and Political Science, concentration in International Relations,
Carleton University. Currently enrolled at McGill University
Faculty of Law completing a BCL/LLB. Her area of interest is
in international trade and development. Mante worked for four
years with the federal government of Canada. She is a member
of the McGill Faculty of Law Human Rights Working Group and
chair of the AIDS Charity Ball Committee which is raising funds
to provide treatment drugs to HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa.
- Esther
Farkas
B.A. History, Minor in Political Science, Duke University. Currently
enrolled in University of Michigan Law School. Esther has worked
for White and Case LLP and the European Roma Rights Center,
an international human rights law firm in Budapest, Hungary.
She is a board member of the University of Michigan Law School's
International Law Society and associate editor for the University
of Michigan Law Review. She assisted IWRAW Asia Pacific in the
drafting of our organisational position paper for the Open-Ended
Working Group on the OP-ICESCR (July-August 2003).
- Lauren
Weisskirk
Lauren is in her final year of undergraduate studies in political
science and literature at Claremont McKenna College, where she
is a former board member of the Claremont Women's Forum and
a McKenna Scholar. During her one month (July) in Malaysia,
she interned at both Women's Aid Organisation and IWRAW Asia
Pacific.
- Cathy
Corbett
B.A. in Historical Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
(England); and M.A. Understanding and Securing Human Rights,
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London (England).
Cathy has worked as a volunteer with the Catholic Development
NGO, CAFOD in London and interned with IWRAW Asia Pacific from
October 2002 to April 2003.
- Stephanie
Barker
Student from the University of Michigan Law School. Served as
president of the University of Michigan Women Law Students'
Association. Interned with IWRAW Asia Pacific in July 2002 and
assisted in research and preparatory work for the South Asia
Regional Consultation on CEDAW, held in Sri Lanka in September
2002.
- Brenda
M. Campbell
1998, LLB Common and Civil Law with French, Queen's University,
Belfast. 2002, Graduate of the Inns of Court, School of Law,
Gray's Inn, London. Called to the Bar of England and Wales,
July 2002. Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland, November 2002.
Member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. She undertook
an internship with IWRAW Asia Pacific between June and October
2002. She is currently practicing at the Northern Irish Bar.
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