{"id":413,"date":"2013-04-19T01:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T01:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2023-06-26T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T12:37:50","slug":"about-the-srsg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Special Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-149x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-92x140.png 92w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-149x227.png 149w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-200x305.png 200w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-241x367.png 241w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-400x610.png 400w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-600x915.png 600w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-768x1171.png 768w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6-800x1220.png 800w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/about-us\/about-the-srsg\/Untitled-design-6.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/>Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict<\/h2>\n<p>Under-Secretary-General Pramila Patten was appointed as the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict on 12 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this appointment and since 2003, Ms. Patten served as a member of the<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/ProfessionalInterest\/Pages\/CEDAW.aspx\"> Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)<\/a>. She was the Chairperson of the Working Group on General Recommendation No. 30 on \u201c<a class=\"pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/documents\/hrbodies\/cedaw\/gcomments\/cedaw.c.cg.30.pdf\">Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post-Conflict situations<\/a>\u201d. She has been a member of several High-Level Panels and Projects, including the High-Level Advisory Group for the <a class=\"pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/papersmart.unmeetings.org\/media2\/7656091\/res-1325.pdf\">Global Study on the Implementation of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security<\/a>, and the Advisory Panel for the <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.uneca.org\/awro\/home_awro.aspx\">African Women\u2019s Rights Observatory (AWRO)<\/a> within the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). She previously was a Commissioner of the International Commission of Inquiry into the massacre in Guinea Conakry on 28 September 2009.<\/p>\n<p>A national of Mauritius, she has been a practicing lawyer since 1982 and a member of the Honourable Society of Gray\u2019s Inn.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47860,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions\/47860"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sexualviolenceinconflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}