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| known_for = Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
| education = Hugh Wooding Law School
| employer = [[Inter-American Commission on Human Rights]] (IACHR)
| occupation = lawyer
| predecessor = [[Flávia Piovesan]]
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In 2014 she was [[UN Women]]'s Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific and the Representative in Thailand.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-02-10 |title=Opening remarks of Roberta Clarke at the Asia-Pacific Civil Society Consultation |url=https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories/2014/2/opening-remarks-of-roberta-clarke-at-the-asia-pacific-civil-society-consultation |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=UN Women – Asia-Pacific |language=en}}</ref>
She was elected as one of the seven commissioners for the [[Inter-American Commission on Human Rights]] in January 2022 at the [[University of California in Los Angeles]] (UCLA). She was elected for a four-year term. There were five candidates for the three vacant positions as commissioners and the other two successful candidates were from Mexico and Colombia. She had the support of Barbados's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
She became the Second Vice President of the IACHR commission. The President was the Jamaican [[Margarette May Macaulay]] and the first vice President was [[Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño]] from Panama. This was one of the first times that the commission was led by an all woman team and the first time that they all came from Central America or the Caribbean.<ref name=mediaoas>{{Cite web |title=IACHR elects its Board of Directors for 2023 |url=https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/jsForm/?File=/en/iachr/media_center/preleases/2023/037.asp |access-date=27 Feb 2024}}</ref> Clarke succeeded [[Flávia Piovesan]] as the commission's Rapporteur on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Bisexual, and Intersex Persons.<ref name=oas>{{Cite web |title=Commissioner Roberta Clarke |url=https://www.oas.org/en/IACHR/jsForm/?File=/en/iachr/r/dlgbti/relator.asp |access-date=27 February 2024 |website=OAS}}</ref>
[[File:Gloria Monique de Mees 189 Período de Sesiones, Washington DC (53613354428).jpg|thumb|The 2024 IACHR Panel led by Clarke]]
In 2024 new IACHR commissioners were elected, including [[Gloria de Mees]] and [[Andrea Pochak]], to replace long serving commissioners Macauley, [[Julissa Mantilla Falcón]] and Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño. The initial President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) was Clarke.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guyana & Suriname representatives appointed to IACHR commission {{!}} Loop Caribbean News |url=https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/guyana-suriname-representatives-appointed-iachr-commission |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Loop News |language=en}}</ref>
She is a campaigner for women's rights and she has been President of the ''Coalition against Domestic Violence'' in Trinidad and Tobago.<ref name=wilson>{{Cite web |title=Roberta Clarke |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/roberta-clarke |access-date=27 Feb 2024 |website=Wilson Centre}}</ref>
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