Sneh Aurora is a senior human rights specialist, with over two decades of experience focusing on international human rights law, standard setting and policy development and implementation, evaluations and assessments, strategy development, civil society and institutional capacity building. 

She has a strong practitioner background, bringing complex research to policy makers and civil society organisations. She has worked with a variety of prominent human rights organisations including Amnesty International, Education International, International Service for Human Rights, Association for the Prevention of Torture, as well as with national human rights institutions and inter-governmental organisations such as the Council of Europe, UNDP, UNESCO, OHCHR, and OSCE/ODHIR. 

Holding a Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Toronto, she has conducted evidence-based research on issues relating to freedom of expression, contemporary forms of slavery, the human rights impact of climate change, and civic participation and engagement. 

She leads the implementation of the EU-funded RIGHTSCITIES project, working in partnership with five European cities—Utrecht, Lund, Vienna, Sopot and Gdańsk—to embed human rights in the local governance. She co-led the conceptualisation and development of an international Human Rights Cities initiative, contributed to the development of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) Framework on Human Rights Cities, and has served as an expert panellist at international fora, including the World Human Rights Cities Forum. 

She has extensive experience in rights-based approaches and participatory methodologies, social communication, gender mainstreaming, participatory assessments using complex indicator frameworks, online education technologies using interactive and blended learning approaches, and building and sustaining effective networks and coalitions. 

She has provided technical advice and support to civil society organisations, governments, national human rights institutions, educational institutions, and UN agencies. She has conducted training programmes on the SDGs and localisation of human rights, and the adaptation and use of indicator frameworks to assess human rights progress, as well as supported local offices to develop and implement participatory human rights programmes across all regions.