Mary Shanthi Dairiam

Mary Shanthi Dairiam
Mary Shanthi Dairiam
Born September 17, 1939(1939-09-17)
Nationality Malaysian
Occupation United Nations official
Known for Human rights and women's rights advocate

Mary Shanthi Dairiam (born 17 September 1939)[1] is a Malaysian human rights and women's rights advocate and United Nations (UN) official. She has since 2004 served on the UN's Gender Equality Task Force,[2] and on the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women.[3] From 2004 to 2008 she was also a member of the UN's CEDAW committee,[4] within which she was appointed Rapporteur in January 2007.[5]

Dairiam was in 2010 appointed as one of three UN experts to lead an inquiry into the Israeli navy's response to the Marmara flotilla that sought to break a blockade of Gaza.[6]

Dairiam is the founder and a current director of International Women's Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific, a charity devoted to the implementation of the CEDAW convention.[7]

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