K.P. Ashwini appointed as UNHRC Special Rapporteur

K.P. Ashwini appointed as UNHRC Special Rapporteur: K.P. Ashwini has been appointed Special Rapporteur for United Nations Human Rights Commission. She will take over the UNHCR special rapporteur in Geneva on November 1 for a period of six years.

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She is the first Indian and Asian woman to be appointed to this post. She hails from Kurabarahalli in Kolar district, Karnataka. She has obtained MPhil and PhD from JNU, Delhi. She served as a lecturer at Mount Carmel College and a professor at Saint Joseph’s College, Bengaluru.