BackgroundSince January 2006, Sheree Bailey has served as the Victim Assistance Specialist in the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit (ISU). Sheree’s responsibilities include: support to the Co-Chairs (Austria and Sudan) of the Standing Committee on Victim Assistance and Socio-Economic Reintegration; and process support to the 24 States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention that have reported the responsibility for significant numbers of survivors, in their articulation of specific, measurable and realistic victim assistance objectives by 2009, plans to achieve these objectives, and means to implement these plans. Between 2001 and 2005, Sheree worked on the International Campaign to Ban Landmines’ Landmine Monitor Report as the Victim Assistance Research Coordinator and Editor. She has been a strong advocate in international forums on raising awareness on the rights and needs of landmine survivors and on the need to ensure that sufficient resources are available to provide adequate and appropriate assistance for the physical rehabilitation and socio-economic reintegration of landmine survivors and other people with a disability. Sheree has a Masters in International Relations which focused on issues such as the socio-economic impact of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and the impact of war on children. She is also working towards a PhD through the University of Melbourne on the role of civil society in the implementation of international humanitarian law, with particular emphasis on its potential to alleviate the suffering of civilians. Sheree is from Brisbane, Australia. |
