Rachel Fox

Rachel is Senior Policy Adviser on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at UNICEF UK, where she leads work aiming to strengthen protections for children’s rights in legal and policy frameworks across the UK and Crown Dependencies. Her expertise includes disability rights, children’s rights and incorporating international human rights standards into domestic law.

Rachel holds a Human Rights MA and has over 15 years’ experience spanning policy analysis, influencing and research in the human rights and social justice fields. She started her career in policy and campaigning roles for non-governmental organisations working on humanitarian response, the right to education and homelessness. Prior to UNICEF UK, Rachel held several positions at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, including monitoring human rights treaty compliance, and leading policy influencing, strategy development and statutory inquiries. She was also seconded to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse as a Policy/Project Lead.