Dr Corinne Lennox is Professor of Human Rights and International Relations. She is based in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and is Co-Director of the Human Rights Consortium, both at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research focuses on the transnational social mobilisation of minority groups and Indigenous peoples, and on the global governance of minority rights. She has worked closely with civil society organisations focused on issues of caste-based discrimination, LGBT+ human rights and on development policy, as well as advising governments and UN agencies on minority rights. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Centre for Pluralism regarding the Global Pluralism Monitor and an Advisor to the Tom Lantos Institute. She is author of Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights: Identity, Advocacy and Norms (Routledge 2020), co-editor of the Handbook on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (Routledge 2015), and co-editor of the open-access book Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (University of London 2013). She was appointed as Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (OUP) in 2021. She holds a PhD and MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from Essex University and an Hons BA in Political Science from McMaster University.

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