Raphael Pangalangan
Human Rights Officer, United Nations
Raphael Pangalangan is a Human Rights lawyer with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, supporting the implementation of the UN’s mandate addressing the human rights impacts of the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands. He is responsible for capacity building, consultations, and the preparation of the office's reports. Before this mandate, Raphael worked as a lawyer in the Philippines and New York representing victims of Crimes Against Humanity. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, then served as a Senior Lecturer with the University of the Philippines, the Associate Dean and Assistant Professor of Jindal Global Law School, and as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.