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Karen Kenny is a human rights lawyer who is co-founder and co-director of the International Human Rights Trust of Dublin, Ireland. Based in Nottingham, England, she advises and trains intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations on human rights matters. Her field experience includes serving as a UN staff member in the human rights field operations in Rwanda, El Salvador, and the Former Yugoslavia.

When Needs are Rights: An Overview of UN Efforts to Integrate Human Rights in Humanitarian Action, Occasional Paper #38 by Karen Kenny. 2000.