Susan Kemp is a Commissioner on the Scottish Human Rights Commission and an independent legal consultant. Among her previous posts she was a Member of the United Nations Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, Judicial Officer in the Criminal Law and Judicial Advisory Service of the Department of Peacekeeping in New York, a Criminal Investigator with the International Criminal Court and Legal Director of the Guatemalan NGO Centro para Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos. This comment is not an official statement of the SHRC.