Frances Raday

Frances Raday (born 29 January 1944 in Manchester, England) is a professor emerita of Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Raday is currently a professor of law at the Haim Striks Law School at Colman College of Management Academic Studies, where she also acts as president of the Concord Center for Integration of International Law in Israel and as head of the school's graduate programs.

Raday is also an honorary professor at University College London and is doctor honoris at the University of Copenhagen. She has been and continues to be an activist for human rights, as a litigator in Israel's Supreme Court, an expert member of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Committee and a member of various governmental and non-governmental organisations. In 2011 she began a six-year stint as a voluntary member of the UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Discrimination against Women. Provided by Wikipedia