Rebecca Bakos Blumenthal
Rebecca Bakos Blumenthal is Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Lead at Global Rights Compliance (GRC). She is a legal adviser, specialising in international humanitarian law, criminal law and human rights law and has been engaged within GRC’s Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Division, conducting in-depth open-source research, documentation and investigations on conflict-induced hunger, and legal analysis on various facets of the crime of starvation and violations of the right to food and other intersecting core international crimes in a number of conflict-specific contexts, including Yemen, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Syria, Ukraine and Palestine, with a view to advance accountability efforts.
She has previously worked with UNICEF and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute. Rebecca completed her Integrated Master of Arts in Law at Bocconi University and an LLM in Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam.