Mary Lawlor (human rights advocate)

Mary Lawlor
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Incumbent
Assumed office
2020
Executive Director of Front Line Defenders
In office
2001–2016
Director of the Irish branch of Amnesty International
In office
1988–2000
Personal details
Born1952
Ireland
Alma materUniversity College Dublin

Mary Lawlor is Adjunct Professor of Business and Human Rights in the School of Business of Trinity College Dublin. An Irish national, she is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, appointed in May 2020.[1] She is the founder and former Executive Director of Front Line Defenders and former director of the Irish branch of Amnesty International.

Background

Lawlor was born in 1952 in Ireland, the second-eldest of seven sisters, and grew up in Kilmacud, a suburb of Dublin. She holds a first degree in philosophy and psychology, from University College Dublin, and postgraduate degrees in Montessori teaching and personnel management.[2][3]

She was married in 1979.[2]

Career

The focus of Lawlor's career has been the protection of human rights defenders, after a few early years selling encyclopaedias in Canada, and teaching at kindergarten.[2]

She joined the Irish branch of Amnesty International as a fundraiser, after meeting and being inspired by Seán MacBride. In 1975 she became a member of its Board and for four years from 1983 was national chair. From 1988 to 2000, she led the organisation as its director.[4]

The following year, she founded Front Line Defenders, which actively protects those who work non-violently to uphold the human rights of others, as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was the organisation's Executive Director from 2001 to 2016.[4][5]

She helped draw up the EU Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, adopted by the Council of the European Union in June 2004.[5][6]

In March 2020, Lawlor was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, for a three-year term from 1 May 2020, succeeding Michel Forst.[1] She was one of the many UN experts who spoke out against the sale of arms to Israel in June 2024 as a result of the conflict in Gaza. The experts cautioned arms suppliers and finance companies that they would be implicated in human rights violations. The signatories to the warning included special reporteurs Paula Gaviria Betancur, Tlaleng Mofokeng, Margaret Satterthwaite and Francesca Albanese.[7]

Other roles and awards

Lawlor currently serves on the boards of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the University College Dublin Centre for Ethics in Public Life, and the Norwegian Human Rights Fund.[4]

In 2014, she was awarded the Insignia of Knight of the Legion of Honour, for her human rights work.[8]

In 2016 she was awarded the Franco-German Award for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Ms Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, OHCHR
  2. ^ a b c Struggle to defend the defenders, Irish Independent, by Joe Jackson, February 11, 2007
  3. ^ "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders". UNHR. UNHR. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d Mary Lawlor (biography), Trinity Business School
  5. ^ a b Irish Legal News (16 March 2020). "Mary Lawlor appointed UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders". Irish Legal News. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  6. ^ The EU Guidelines on the Protectionof Human Rights Defenders, Memorandum by Society for Threatened Peoples, July 2013
  7. ^ "States and companies must end arms transfers to Israel immediately or risk responsibility for human rights violations: UN experts". 20 June 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Human rights activist Mary Lawlor receives French honour". The Irish Times. 4 July 2014.

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