Ms. Jane Connors is currently a senior human rights officer in the Treaties and Commission Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. In this capacity she is tasked with coordinating support to the work of the six treaty bodies serviced by the Office, and is responsible for activities relating to the reform of the treaty body reporting process. She is also the OHCHR focal point for the Secretary-General’s study on violence against children. From September 1996 to October 2002 she was the Chief of the Women’s Rights Section in the Department of Economic and Social and Affairs of the United Nations. Prior to that she was a law teacher at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London, the Universities of Lancaster and Nottingham, also in the United Kingdom, and the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. She has written widely on the work of the human rights treaty bodies, violence against women and the human rights of women.