Speaker
LEE Yanghee
Affliation
International Child Rights Center
Title
Chairperson
Session

Biography

Professor Yanghee Lee is Professor Emeritus at Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Child Psychology and Education. She has founded and is the current President of the International Child Rights Center. Professor Lee has more than 17 years of experience in human rights: UN Committee for the Convention on the Rights of the Child for 10 years and has served as its chair for 2 terms (2007-2011). From 2014 until 2020 she served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar. Professor Lee has served as the Chairperson of Chairpersons of Treaty Bodies (2010 – 2011) as well as the Chairperson of the Coordinating Committee of Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council (2016-2017). She has been the guiding force in the drafting, negotiation, and adoption of the 3rd Optional Protocol to the CRC on a Communications Procedure. Within the Special Procedures Mechanism, Professor Lee has been instrumental in establishing the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFMM) and the Independent Investigative Mechanism on Myanmar (IIMM). She has recently founded the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M).