Chantal Nguyen

Chantal Nguyen is a lawyer based in Sydney, Australia. She has provided legal assistance to the Diplomacy Training Program since 2013. Her background and interests include international humanitarian law and human rights in the Asia-Pacific. She has contributed to the International Committee of the Red Cross’ study on customary international humanitarian law, and has represented Australia before the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the UN Human Rights Council (including for resolutions on Migrants, Right to Nationality, and Trafficking in Persons). In Sydney, Chantal has worked for the Australian Human Rights Centre’s Migrant and Refugee Rights Project, and was the 2013 UNSW Human Rights Fellow to Legal Aid New South Wales, where she acted as a lawyer on refugee and immigration matters. Chantal will be the 2015 Associate to Justice Griffiths of the Federal Court of Australia, where she is looking forward to working on the immigration appeals that come before the Court.