Rosalyn Park

Rosalyn Park is a human rights expert with extensive experience in human rights monitoring, violence against women, death penalty abolition, UN advocacy, and volunteer management. She possesses a Juris Doctor degree in Law from the University of Minnesota Law School, a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a certificate in human rights from the American University. Rosalyn has provided expert guidance to UN bodies and foreign governments on compliance with international legal standards and best practice standards.

Rosalyn has served as an expert for multiple NGOs, the UN, OSCE, and the Inter-Parliamentary Union on women’s human rights. She was selected to join the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women’s 2017 Expert Group Meeting on domestic violence best practice standards and 2020 Expert Group Meeting on sexual assault. She is a core member of the international UN Gender Network, a coalition established to examine gender equality policies within the UN and their impact on the UN’s approach to the Sustainable Development Goals.

With her expertise, Rosalyn has conducted and led monitoring missions in many countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Montenegro, and Sierra Leone. She has also published reports and recommendations and frequently develops and conducts trainings for lawyers, human rights defenders, and systems actors locally and internationally. Additionally, she has fostered relationships and collaborated with local and national law firms on pro bono projects, including legal research and writing, fact-finding missions, and UN advocacy.

As the Director of the Women's Human Rights Program at The Advocates for Human Rights, Rosalyn has helped establish organizational protocols and standards for volunteers and publications. She cultivates relationships with donors and represented The Advocates as a Steering Committee member of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, where she chaired the Working Group on World Day against the Death Penalty for multiple years. Her experience of 15 years has made her skilled at building and fostering relationships with diverse, cross-cultural partners.