Carnegie Council

Yvonne Terlingen heads Amnesty International's United Nations Office in New York, where she has represented the organization since 2001.

She also worked at the United Nations, serving as head of the Belgrade Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the former Yugoslavia and establishing the UN's first Victims and Witnesses Unit, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Resources by this Author:

• The United States and the UN's Targeted Sanctions of Suspected Terrorists: What Role for Human Rights? [Full Text]
• The Human Rights Council: A New Era in UN Human Rights Work? [Full Text]