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Name
  
Yanghee Lee


Role
  
Psychologist

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Occupation
  
United Nations Special Rapporteur, former chairperson of Committee on the Rights of the Child, developmental psychologist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University

Awards
  
Human Rights Award of Korea

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Yanghee Lee is a South Korean developmental psychologist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University. She is most noted for her work in international human rights organisations. She has served in the following roles:

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  • Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2007-2011).
  • Chairperson of the Meeting of Chairpersons of Treaty Bodies (2010-2011).
  • United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.

  • She also founded the International Child Rights Center.

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    She received her undergraduate education at Georgetown University and her postgraduated education at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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    She had been awarded 2009 Human Rights Award of Korea, as winner.

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    Titles, awards and honours

  • 2009: Human Rights Award of Korea as Winner, National Human Rights Commission of Korea
  • References

    Yanghee Lee Wikipedia