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Ms. Rhona Smith
UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE
SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CAMBODIA
Ms. Rhona Smith was appointed Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in
Cambodia by the Human Rights Council on 27 March 2015.
Ms. Smith completed her doctorate at Strathclyde University in Glasgow in 1996. She is a
Professor of international human rights law in the United Kingdom.
As a full time academic, Prof. Smith has researched and published across a range of issues and
conducted a variety of other academic activities related to international human rights. She has
evaluated different stages of human rights capacity-building programmes in various regions
including Asia (China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam), the Middle East and
Africa. Most of her work has focused on the higher education and justice sectors.
From 2011 until early 2015, Prof. Smith worked with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of human
rights and humanitarian law as an adviser on the implementation of their capacity buildingprogramme in the academic and justice sectors in Cambodia. She was a visiting professor at
Pannasastra University in Cambodia where she worked on designing and developing course
curricula for the re-launch of Cambodia’s first master level program in human rights law.