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Siobhán Mullally
Born1968
NationalityUnited Kingdom
EducationEuropean University Institute in Florence et al
Employer(s)University College Cork, University of Galway et al
Known forProfessor at the University of Galway and United Nations special rapporteur on people trafficking

Siobhán Mullally (born 1968) is an United Kingdom-born Irish jurist and the UN special rapporteur on human trafficking.

Life[edit]

Mullally was born in London in 1968. She graduated in law in 1988 at University College Cork and two years later she became a Master of Laws at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was a visiting professor at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore in 1994 , and at Peshawar University from 1992 to 1994. She became of doctor of laws in 2003 at the European University Institute in Florence.

Mullaly was Professor of Law at University College Cork and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Cork . She is currently Professor at the University of Galway and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights .[1]

Mullally was a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Fellow in Residence at Columbia University in 2010 , a Clark Scholar at Cornell Law School in 2003, and a Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1999.

From 2012 to 2018 she was a member of the European Advisory Board of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA). She was the group's president from 2016 to 2018 and she co-authored reports on Austria, the UK, Italy , Hungary , Turkey and Sweden.[2]

She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague

In her 2006 publication Gender, Culture and Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism, she argused that feminism needed to take hold of human rights and restructure them.[3]

Mullally was a founding member of the leadership team of the migrant rights organisation NASC and is a member of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . She chaired the Irish Refugee Council from 2006 to 2008 . In 2009, she looked at the Independence of Pakistan's Judiciary as part of an International Bar Association Inquiry team.[1]

From 2014 to 2019 she was a member of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission , a member of the Treaty Organisation for the Good Friday Agreement and a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights of the Northern Irish and Irish Human Rights Commissions . She was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons , especially women and children, for the UN Human Rights Council in 2020.[2]

Publications[edit]

She has been an editor of several Irish Yearbooks of International Law with Fiona de Londras.[4][5]

  • Gender, Culture and Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism, 2006[3]
  • Civic Integration, Migrant Women and the Veil: at the Limits of Rights?” in Modern Law Review, 2011
  • Fleeing Homophobia: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum« in International Journal of Refugee Law, 2015
  • Care, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Practice, 2015[6]
  • 2016 “Regulation Abortion: Dissensus and the Politics of Rights” in Social & Legal Studies , 25 (6):645–650
  • 2016 “A Crisis of Protection in Europe: Migrants at Sea” in Proceedings Of The 98th Annual Meeting , American Society of International Law, 110:173–178

2019 »International Disability Law and the Experience of Marginality« 113:289–290


References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Law - University of Galway". www.universityofgalway.ie. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  2. ^ a b "Biography of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children, Ms Siobhán Mullally". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2020s. Retrieved June 2024. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b Mullally, Siobhán (2006-05-26). Gender, Culture and Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84731-155-9.
  4. ^ Londras, Fiona de; Mullally, Siobhán (2014-12-04). Irish Yearbook of International Law, Volume 7, 2012. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78225-454-6.
  5. ^ Londras, Fiona de; Mullally, Siobhán (2021-07-15). The Irish Yearbook of International Law, Volume 14, 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-5088-1.
  6. ^ Mullally, Siobhán (2015-02-11). Care, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Practice. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-64604-4.