Bonnie Docherty, senior researcher in the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch, is an expert on arms, especially cluster munitions, as well as on the protection of civilians during armed conflicts. Since 2001, she has played an active role, as both lawyer and field researcher, in the campaign against cluster munitions. Docherty was intimately involved in negotiations for the Convention on Cluster Munitions and has promoted strong implementation of the convention since its adoption in 2008.  Her in-depth field investigations of cluster munition use in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Georgia helped galvanize international opposition to the weapons. In 2010, Docherty contributed to Oxford University Press's comprehensive legal commentary on the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Additionally, Docherty has investigated the conduct of war and civilian casualties in Israel, Gaza and Iraq, and she recently began to work on incendiary weapons. She is also a lecturer on law and clinical instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School. Docherty received her bachelor's as well as her law degree from Harvard University.