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Rosalyn Park
Rosalyn Park
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Rosalyn S. Park is the Research Director for The Advocates for Human Rights. She received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School and her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to her current position at The Advocates, she worked as a Staff Attorney in the Women’s Human Rights Program and Special Projects. Rosalyn has assisted in conducting fact-finding missions in Bulgaria, Tajikistan, Croatia, Mongolia, and Sierra Leone. She has co-authored several publications and is a frequent guest lecturer in the community. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where she teaches Global Gender Violence. In addition, Rosalyn represents The Advocates for Human Rights on the Steering Committee of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, where she chairs the Working Group for World Day against the Death Penalty and is active on several other working groups. Before beginning work with The Advocates, Rosalyn interned with Anti-Slavery International in London as an Upper Midwest International Human Rights Fellow. She is admitted to practice in Minnesota.

 

 

Publications:

Rosalyn Park et al. Implementation of Croatia's Domestic Violence Legislation. Minneapolis, MN: The Advocates for Human Rights, 2012. 
 
 
Rosalyn Park et al. A Practitioner’s Guide to Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation and Advocacy. Minneapolis, MN: The Advocates for Human Rights, January 2011.*
 
 
Michele Garnett McKenzie, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips, Laura Provinzino, and Laura Young. Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora. Minneapolis, MN: The Advocates for Human Rights, 2009.
 
 
Young, Laura and Rosalyn Park. “Engaging Diasporas in Truth Commissions: Lessons from the Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission (LTRC) Diaspora Project.” 3 International Journal of Transitional Justice 341(2009).
 
Ellingen, Mary, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips, Cheryl Thomas, and Genoveva Tisheva. Implementation of the Bulgarian Law on Protection Against Domestic Violence: A Human Rights Report. Minneapolis, MN: The Advocates for Human Rights, March 2008.
 
Ellingen, Mary, Rosalyn Park, and Cheryl Thomas. Domestic Violence in Tajikistan. Minneapolis, MN: The Advocates for Human Rights, October 2008.
 
Park, Rosalyn and Cheryl Thomas. “UN Conventions and Declarations.” Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers, 2008. 
 
Park, Rosalyn and Cheryl Thomas. “Human Rights.” Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers, 2008.
 
 
* Robin Phillips, Jennifer Prestholdt, Laura Young, Madeline Lohman, and Michele McKenzie. A Practitioner’s Guide to Hu man Rights Monitoring, Documentation and Advocacy. Minneapolis, MN: The Advocates for Human Rights, January 2011. 
 
** Dulce Foster, Dianne Heins, Mark Kalla, Michele Garnett McKenzie, James O'Neal, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips, Jennifer Prestholdt, Ahmed K. Sirleaf II, Laura A. Young. A House with Two Rooms: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia Diaspora Project. St Paul, MN:DRI Press, 2009.