Bonnie Docherty is associate director of armed conflict and civilian protection and a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. She is also a senior researcher in the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch. She has worked on humanitarian disarmament since 2001 as a lawyer, field researcher, and scholar.

Bonnie was actively involved in the negotiation of the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. She played a key role in ensuring that the treaty included provisions on victim assistance and environmental remediation and provided legal advice to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Since the treaty’s adoption, Bonnie has promoted strong implementation of its positive obligations and, in partnership with the Conflict and Environment Observatory, crafted principles for addressing the environmental effects of armed conflict more broadly. Bonnie has also worked on numerous other disarmament issues, including cluster munitions, autonomous weapons systems, incendiary weapons, and the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.