Dr Susan Harris Rimmer is the Manager of Advocacy and Development Practice at the
Australian Council for International Development, peak body for Australian development
NGOs. She is also a Visting Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Justice
in RegNet at the Australian National University. She is the outgoing President of
national voluntary NGO Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and an outgoing board member
of Un Women National Committee Australia. She has fourteen years experience as a lawyer,
researcher, campaigner and policy analyst (NCCA, ACFID, UNHCR and Parliament), most of
which has been in the human rights, refugee and women’s sectors. She has specialist
knowledge in the fields of international law (especially transitional justice), human
rights and anti-discrimination law and policy, refugee and migration law and policy, law
reform and Parliamentary processes, a rights-based approach to development, social policy
and the strengthening of civil society movements, especially through the promotion of
women’s leadership.
Articles
Books
Contributions to Books
The Role of UNHCR, The Challenge of Armed Conflict: International Law Responds. (2006)
Popular Press
Research Briefs
Presentations
