Laure Rogès
- Research Assistant
Laure Rogès has been a research assistant at the Magna Carta Institute since October 2008. She holds two Masters Degrees, one in International and European Law and one in International Economics specializing in development issues, both obtained with honours at the University Pierre Mendès France of Grenoble, France. In 2006 she completed an internship at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Representative Office in Geneva. During the summer of 2007 she carried out a research project on rural water and sanitation in the Natural Resources and Infrastructure Unit of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in Santiago de Chile. She also participated in various courses and seminars on the inter-American system of human rights protection and on international investment agreements.
Throughout her legal training, she has shown an interest for human rights-related issues, particularly with regard to economic, social and cultural rights, the impact of the activities of economic actors on human rights and international humanitarian law. She is particularly interested in the legal aspects of the problems faced by the Latin American region. Aside from French, which is her mother tongue, she is proficient in English and Spanish.