Mila Rosenthal
Mila Rosenthal is a human rights advocate with a long international career spanning many countries and issues. Currently, she is working on a project with economists, including the New School's Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, on methodologies for measuring economic and social rights fulfillment. Recently she served as the Executive Director of HealthRight International, a global organization working to build lasting access to health for excluded communities. Before that, at Amnesty International USA, she developed global campaigns on a wide range of issues including international justice, freedom of speech and religion, the right to health, and stopping violence against women, and pioneered AIUSA's advocacy on the human rights responsibilities of companies.
Previously, Mila lived and worked throughout East Asia. She served in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia and worked to build civil society there. She researched the lives of women workers in textile factories in Vietnam for her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and advocated on labor rights in several countries. She has written extensively about the social impact of globalization on women, taught at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and currently serves on the Board of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
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