Heisoo Shin
Member, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Culture at United Nations
Dr. Heisoo SHIN currently serves as a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. She has been a lifelong advocate of the women’s human rights movement and has substantially contributed to the struggle to end violence against women. She served as an expert on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women from 2001-2008, and as a commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea from 2005-2008. She is currently the representative of the Korea Center for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN), as well as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Since Nov. 2014, she has been coordinating 14 civil society organizations in 7 countries in Asia and the Netherlands to inscribe the documents on the military sexual slavery by Japan (the so-called 'comfort women' system) as UNESCO's documentary heritage.