Chiara Liguori
Chiara Liguori is Policy Adviser on Environment and Human Rights at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. She leads on developing the policy and strategy work on climate change and human rights. She is committed about fighting climate change from a human rights perspective and has been involved in shaping Amnesty’s work on climate change and human rights even before being appointed to her current position. Previously she worked as Caribbean researcher in Amnesty’s Americas Program, as Human Rights Officer at the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti and as Programme Officer at UNDP Comoros.
Chiara Liguori has two decades of international experience in the field of human human rights research, policy, advocacy and campaigning in addition to project management skills. She is currently focusing on environment and human rights, particularly on how human rights can support and strengthen the fight for climate justice. Chiara is the author of nine reports for Amnesty International as well as numerous articles and op-eds. My thematic expertise includes human rights implications of climate change, forced migration, statelessness, public security, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights and housing rights. Chiara is used to representing the organisation she works for in international forums and to acting as a media spokesperson. She has also have lived in Mexico, UK, Haiti, Comoros, Belgium, and Spain. Italian is her native language, but she is used to working in English, French and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese and Haitian Creole.
