Sangeetha Yogendran

Short Bio

Sangeetha is a human rights and humanitarian professional from Singapore. She started her human rights journey working at Interpol and then the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia. She continued her engagement in Cambodia, as a litigation and transitional justice associate, documenting violations against, and assisting with the representing a group of victims before the Tribunal. She worked with Ministry of Foreign Affairs on international boundary issues, and later, with the International Criminal Court. Sangeetha has also spent time working in the occupied Palestinian territories on humanitarian law violations, as well as with Rohingya refugee communities in Malaysia and in Australia. More recently, she has worked as a researcher on humanitarian assistance, rule of law, and business and human rights issues around the ASEAN region.

Sangeetha has also worked in humanitarian response throughout Asia, and has been deployed to support humanitarian responses in the Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

Sangeetha is a qualified Advocate & Solicitor in Singapore, and holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the University of Melbourne, an LL.B (Hons) from the National University of Singapore, and a postgraduate diploma in Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Education

• University of Melbourne, Master of Public and International Law, 10/2016
• National University of Singapore, Bachelor of Laws (Honours), 06/2010
• University of London, Poverty Reduction: Policy and Practice, Postgraduate Certificate, 10/2018
• Supreme Court of Singapore, Advocate & Solicitor, Admitted to the Singapore Bar, 08/2012

Professional Positions

• Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Human Rights Centre, Belgium, 09/2019 – ongoing: PhD research fellow
• Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, Singapore, 01/2019 – 08/2019: Inclusive Business Sector Expert and Manager
• Brown University, USA 11/2018 – 09/2019: Research Consultant on International Humanitarian Law
• Save the Children International, Asia Regional Office, Jakarta, 10/2018 – 01/2019: Information and Communications Consultant, Palu Earthquake and Tsunami Response
• ASEAN CSR Network, Singapore, 08/2018 – 10/2018: Programme Consultant, Business and Human Rights
• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rule of Law Programme Asia, Singapore, 05/2017 – 05/2018: Research Associate
• S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, 11/2016 – 04/2017: Senior Analyst, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
• Save the Children International, Asia Regional Office, Singapore, 10/2013 – 07/2015: Humanitarian Response Officer and Operations Coordinator
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, 08/2012 – 09/2013: Foreign Service Officer, Special Projects Desk – International Boundary Issues
• Access to Justice Asia, Cambodia and Singapore, 08/2009 – 12/2012: Transitional Justice Associate

Featured Publications

• Rights, Reparations and Legal Rituals: Victims at the ECCC, Mahdev Mohan and Sangeetha Yogendran, in The Khmer Rouge Trials in Context, Silkworm Books, March 2019
• Legal redress for Rohingya: ASEAN’s Responsibility, The Jakarta Post, 5 January 2018
• ASEAN failure to implement the customary international law principle of non-refoulement during the 2015 boat crisis, Human Rights Defender, UNSW Law, Vol. 23 Issue 3, November 2017
• Did The ICC Fail Child Victims In The Lubanga Reparations Order? Amsterdam Law Forum, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 2, p. 65-83, May 2017, ISSN 1876-8156
• Natural Entities Now Legally People: Enough to Save Them?, RSIS Commentary, 8 May 2017
• The Politics of Legality and UN Resolution 2334, RSIS Commentary, 18 January 2017
• Turning to ASEAN: Response to the Rakhine Crisis, RSIS Commentary, 14 December 2016