Macauley

SOLICITORS’ INTERNATIONAL

HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP

Uniting Lawyers for Human Rights around the World

Monthly Speaker meeting

Margarette Macaulay

She has been appointed as a Judge on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in June 2006 and sits on the Court in Costa Rica in ordinary sessions and in other member States in Extraordinary Sessions.

“The Inter-American Court of Human Rights”

Wednesday 24^th August 2008

6.30pm

BPP Law School

Room 3.7, 68-70 Red Lion Street, London

Margarette Macaulay

Margarette Macaulay is a Women’s and Children’s Rights advocate, and an Attorney-at-Law and has been in practice from 1976 to date. She was elected as a Judge of the Inter American Court of Human Rights in June 2006 and sits on the Court in Costa Rica in ordinary sessions and in other member States in Extraordinary Sessions. Current Chairperson of Jamaica Coalition of the Rights of the Child (JCRC). She was awarded most outstanding Jamaican Scholar Award at Norman Manley Law School, 2 years after arriving in Jamaica from West Africa. She is the Chair and Member of a number of Committees of the Jamaican Bar Association. Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council. Member of a number of international Women’s Human Rights Organisations, including the Coalition for an International Criminal Court and the Women’s Gender Initiative both at the Hague. Mrs. Macaulay has presented in International, Regional and National conferences and has facilitated in training sessions, to name a few on Violence against women, Domestic Violence, the laws relating to sexual violations and others, Women’s and children’s human rights issues and instruments. She was the trainer of the legal aspect of the Domestic Violence intervention training of Trainers (Police Officers and other frontline workers) at the Police Academy Twickenham Park, designed and run by CAFRA some years ago for which a Manual was developed and used. She is also a weekly columnist in the Jamaica Observer Newspaper on Human Rights and Legal Rights.

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