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Staff

Jarvis Matiya

Jarvis is a Human Rights Adviser. He is responsible for developing and implementing programmes on human rights in the Commonwealth, especially in the promotion of civil, political, economic and cultural rights.

Jarvis, from Malawi, has a legal background where he specialised in human rights law.

He joined the Secretariat in 2002.

 

Monica Vincent

Monica is an Interim Human Rights Officer.  

She holds an LLM in Public International Law from Oxford Brookes University, UK.  

Prior to joining the Secretariat, Monica was a Legal Research Consultant for Amnesty International India and a Senior Law Officer in The Human Rights Law Network based in New Delhi. Her experience also includes legal practice in the Indian Courts and most recently an internship at the International Criminal Court in Hague. For the last six years, she has served in the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland.