Carol Rask is a Chief Advisor in the Human Rights and Sustainable Development Department at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She is also the Team Lead on Equality and Non-Discrimination. Carol is a human rights and development expert with over 30 years of practical experience in supporting human rights-based approaches to sustainable development. At the Danish Institute for Human Rights, her work consists of the development of monitoring frameworks and tools, the production of human rights analyses, and the supporting of capacity development on issues related to human rights and sustainable development. She has led the development of the Institute’s work on human rights defenders, including the development of a monitoring framework, the Right to Defend Rights, which is currently being used by national human rights institutions and human rights defender networks in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Carol holds a Masters in Human Rights.