Heather Barr
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Heather Barr is a senior human rights researcher on women's rights in Asia and current interim co-director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, where she started in 2011 as the Afghanistan researcher, and worked as senior researcher, Women's Rights in Asia from 2014.[1] Barr previously worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan and Burundi, and has done research on issues including child marriage, girls' education, violence against women, refugee and prisoner's rights, and trafficking. Her research has focused on various countries including, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea.
Education[edit]
Barr has an MA in criminal justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a PhD from Columbia Law School as well as a Master of Laws in Human Rights from the London School of Economics.[2]
Career[edit]
She joined Human Rights Watch in 2011 as the Afghanistan researcher, after working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and Burundi. She spent six years in Afghanistan, managing human rights and justice programs for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the UN Development Program.[2] After law school she litigated for discharge planning for prisoners with psychosocial disabilities in New York City through her work at the Urban Justice Centre where she represented people with psychosocial disabilities in the criminal justice system in New York,[3] and founded an alternative-to-incarceration program through her work with the Centre for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services.[2] Before law school, she worked at a shelter for homeless women who had psychosocial disabilities and substance abuse problems in New York City.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Heather Barr". Quartz. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Heather Barr". Human Rights Watch. 2011-12-20. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "ATLAS: Heather Barr". ATLAS. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
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