Adolfo Perez Esquivel is an Argentine, activist, human rights defender, teacher, sculptor and painter. He is honorary president of the National Organizing Committee of the World Forum on Human Rights 2023. In 1980 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight for Human Rights. He was appointed member of the executive committee of the United Nations Permanent Assembly on Human Rights. He founder of the newspaper Paz y Justicia, summit of the NOVA movement and defense of Human Rights. He was a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the National University of La Plata and a professor of sculpture at the National School of Fine Arts. He has contributed to numerous international missions, such as "Ship for Peace to Nicaragua", "Ship for Solidarity to Poland" and conflict resolution campaigns in South Africa, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Tibet, among others. Among his many literary works, “Walking with the peoples. Non-violent experiences in Latin America” (1995), “A drop of time. Chronicle between anguish and hope" (1996), and "the other look" (2021). He currently performs various functions, including president of the Honorary Council of the Peace and Justice Service in Latin America.
She is Spanish, a teacher, researcher and author. She is a professor at the University of Valencia where she specializes in women's labor rights and the impact on gender inequality. For fifteen years she has dedicated her research to the relationship between the Lex Mercatoria and Human Rights and the impact that transnational companies, Trade and Investment Treaties and IMF activities have on social rights. She is the author of "TTIP: the Multinational Assault on Democracy", Lessons on the Social State and Social Rights; Feminisms and constituent processes; The neoliberal hurricane, a labor reform against work, Neofascism, the neoliberal beast.
He is Argentine, professor, researcher and writer, PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. He is currently Director at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the National University of Avellaneda, consulting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and researcher at IEALC, the Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Buenos Aires until 1994 and Executive Secretary of the CLACSO Latin American Council of Social Sciences in 2006. He was distinguished with the UNESCO José Martí International Prize in 2009 and Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Honorary Essay Prize from Casa de las Américas in 2004. Author of hundreds of publications, among them "El Hechicero de la Tribu"; ”Problems of political theory in Latin America.
She is Kenyan, an independent UN expert on foreign debt and human rights for the Human Rights Council. In 2022 she was invited by the Argentine government within the framework of the mandate of the Human Rights Council. She is a Doctor (PhD) in Law and a specialist in Tax Law, Policy and Development, and teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and previously she taught in South Africa, Rwanda, Malaysia and the United Kingdom. She has researched and published on global and regional issues. In 2013 she published “Tax and Development” in which she discusses the links between tax issues and human rights, and more recently she published “Financing Africa” which is the first global publication covering tax systems in Africa.
Spanish jurist. He directs the FIBGAR Foundation, an organization for Human Rights and universal jurisdiction in Madrid with programs in development in Spain, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. He runs the law firm ILOCAD SL. (International Legal Organization for Cooperation and Development) Coordinates the international defense, pro bono, of Julián Assange and Wikileaks. Since 2019, he is a member of the Latin American Council for Justice and Democracy (CLAJUD) of the Puebla Group. He was president of the UNESCO International Human Rights Center of Argentina, between 2012 and 2016. He was advisor to the Human Rights Commission of the Argentine House of Representatives until December 2015.
She is Brazilian, jurist, lawyer and teacher. She is a member of the International Secretariat of the Brazilian Association of Jurists for Democracy (ABJD) since 2017 and of the International Tribunal for Restorative Justice of El Salvador. She is co-founder of the Puebla Group. Since 2009, she has been co-director of the Official Master's Degree of the European Union on Human Rights, Interculturality and Development at the Pablo de Olavide University and the International University of Andalusia. She is the executive director of the Joaquín Herrera Flores-AL Institute in Brazil. She is a former advisor to the National Commission of Amnesty Brazil.
Spanish, Prosecutor of the Chamber in the Robed Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court of Spain. She was Minister of Justice in the Government of Pedro Sánchez from 2018 to January 2020. Before her appointment as minister, she was the coordinating prosecutor against jihadism at the National Court. Since 1993, her work has focused on the fight against drug trafficking, organized crime and ETA terrorism.
She is from Argentina and ad honorem adviser to President Alberto Fernández. She is director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She is a consulting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the UBA and an honorary member of the Latin American Society of Practical Philosophy. She is part of the Academic Committee of the ARENAL Magazine (Spain); the Scientific Committee of the Magazine La Aljaba (Argentina); of the Editorial Committee of the Cuadernos del CIESAL Magazine (Universidad de Rosario). She is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications, among them: Women, between the house and the square Women in Argentine society. A history of five centuries Anarchism, education and customs in Argentina at the beginning of the century.
Spanish. General Secretary of the PCE Communist Party and spokesperson for the United We Can Group in the Spanish Congress of Deputies. He was a member of the legal team of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), in the peace negotiations with the government of that country. In 2020 he was appointed vice president of the Commission for the Reconstruction of the coronavirus pandemic.
He was president of the Republic of Colombia between 1994 and 1998. He currently leads the Escenarios Corporation, a non-profit organization that works for the integration of Latin America. He deals with issues related to human rights, international humanitarian law and peace in Colombia through the Vivamos Humanos Corporation. In 2014 he was elected Secretary General of UNASUR, a position he held until 2017. In his rise to the presidency, he fought hard for human rights during the armed conflicts in his country. He created the Ministry of Culture to promote peace between the different communities and support for cultural workers.
She is a national senator of Paraguay. She was Minister of Health between 2008 and 2012. She is a doctor and a popular activist. She was appointed President of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in 2009 and Vice President of the 65th Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2012. From the beginning of her career, she was linked to the struggles trade unions and the country's public health problems. She was a founding member of the Association of Doctors of the Hospital de Clínicas.
He was the first Argentine jurist to be president of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Professor and doctor in legal sciences from the National University of La Plata Director of the Master's Program in Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Institute of the National University of La Plata. He is a member of the General Assembly of the International Institute of Human Rights in France and of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica. Author of: The Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights: Instruments, organs, procedures and jurisprudence. Contemporary international courts and the humanization of international law The university and education in the 21st century: human rights as pillars of the new university reform.
Argentina. She is the Executive Director of the International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights – UNESCO. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies and advises the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires of the Women, Childhood, Adolescence and Youth commission. She is a History professor graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (UBA) and a Master's in Sociology and Cultural Analysis (National University of San Martín). She is a professor of Latin American Social History in Sociology (UBA) at the Hannah Arendt Institute, and associate of Historiography Problems: Social History of Gender in History (UBA). She was vice president of the Budget and Internal Affairs Commission in the MERCOSUR Parliament between 2015 and 2021 and director of the Special Commission on Crimes Related to Trafficking in Persons in Buenos Aires legislation between 2012 and 2015. She was distinguished in 2005 with the "Mention March 8 Margarita de Ponce” by the Union of Argentine Women for her contribution to the theory of gender in History. She is the author of: History of Women in Argentina Latin American History Latin American History in the World Context.
Argentinian. Educator in prisons since 1992, Master in Human Rights from the National University of La Plata, founder and current president of the GESEC (Study Group on Education in Prisons) Coordinator and teacher of the Seminar-workshop "Education in the deprivation of liberty" in Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico, and "Cinema Cárcel y Derechos Humanos" in its four editions with INCAA. Guest Consultant of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH) 2002-2008 and 2012 in Costa Rica, and of the International Institute of Human Rights (IHRLI) of DePaul University in Chicago, IL in the United States.
Ex Presidenta de la Asamblea Nacional de Ecuador. Formó parte de la Bancada de la Revolución Ciudadana. Directora Ejecutiva del Instituto para la Democracia Eloy Alfaro (IDEAL). Fue presidenta titular y alterna del Parlatino (Parlamento Latinoamericano y Caribeño). Se destacó por su activismo regional e internacional, y por su lucha en favor de la integración, la unidad y la soberanía de América Latina. Estudió en la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, licenciada en Gestión para el Desarrollo Local Sostenible.
Argentinian. Member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies. He is a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona. He is vice president of the Observatory of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (DESC). He was Vice Mayor of the Barcelona City Council during the years 2005-2019. He was Councilor of the Barcelona City Council of the municipal group of Barcelona en Comú between 2015 and 2019, he served during this period as first deputy mayor. Author of Social rights and their guarantees. Elements for its reconstruction (2007).
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of El Salvador. He is an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic and a Consultant in International Relations, Cooperation and Development. Industrial engineer, politician, writer and diplomat. Member of the Puebla group. He was president of the Foreign Relations and Education Commissions between 2003 and 2009. He promoted important initiatives for the migrant community and the training of the Salvadoran population. Likewise, from the United Nations Human Rights Council, and from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). He was an official of the Central American Higher University Council (CSUCA) in 1996.
Senator, philosopher and defender of human rights of the Republic of Colombia. He is one of the founders of the Defendamos la Paz movement. In the last decade, he has been co-chairman of the peace commissions of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic. His father Manuel Cepeda Vargas, a left-wing politician and senator from the Patriotic Union, was murdered in August 1994 by state agents in complicity with paramilitaries. He was awarded the 'Roger Baldwin' Freedom Medal, awarded by the Human Rights First organization, in 2007. He also received special recognition from the Franco-German Human Rights Award, 'Antonio Nariño', in 2015. Between 2012 and 2016 he was a facilitator of the peace process between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP. Between 2014 and 2018, He was a facilitator of the dialogues between the Government and the ELN. Between 2015 and 2018, he was a facilitator of the process of submission to justice between the Government and the so-called 'Clan del Golfo'.
French Ambassador for the Rights of LGBT+ people. Fight in favor of the universal decriminalization of homosexuality and the defense of the rights of LGBTQI+ people. He works on initiatives to increase the number of places for LGBT+ asylum seekers, and to better include same-sex couples in administrative procedures, and fights against conversion therapy. In 2020, he became chief of staff for secretary Marlène Schiappa and oversaw the reception of the 100,000 displaced persons from Ukraine who arrived in France. In 2018, he was an adviser to President Macron on human rights, relations with civil society, influence diplomacy, Francophonie, development aid and climate issues, as well as the G7.
Former President of the Government of Spain in 2004. He was spokesman and general secretary of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). Some outstanding measures during his presidency are the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, the Law against Gender Violence, the Equality Law, the Historical Memory Law, the Dependency Law, and the marriage law between people of the same sex. Zapatero also proposed the international initiative of the Alliance of Civilizations, which was adopted as an official program by the United Nations in April 2007. He was a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of León.
He is a lawyer and human rights defender from Argentina. Former UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. Currently, he has been appointed to the UN Organ for Racial Justice, created to ensure equal treatment by security forces and justice systems for Africans or Afro-descendants. He is Professor of Human Rights Law at the American University – Washington College of Law, where he is Faculty Director of the Anti-Torture Initiative; and he is a commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland. President Emeritus of the International Center for Transitional Justice; And former Special Advisor to the Secretary General for the Prevention of Genocide. Early in his career, he began representing political prisoners. As a result, he was detained by the Argentine military dictatorship and subjected to torture and administrative detention for a period of 18 months. During this time, Amnesty International adopted him as a "prisoner of conscience". In 1977, Mr. Mendez was expelled from the country and moved to the United States.
Argentina, lawyer, teacher and researcher. She was selected as an Argentine candidate for the DESC Committee Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the period 2023-2026. She works as a professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of Lanús and the National University of General San Martín at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has given courses, conferences and training for a varied audience in national, regional and international forums. She has studied and written extensively on the development of standards, rules and principles in this field, their application in the domestic sphere, the rights and gender approach in social policies, as well as the impact of sovereign debt on human rights.
Swedish, journalist, writer, and activist. She is the author of several works on the financial crisis, women's rights and criticism of capitalism. She writes for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, and is an op-ed columnist for the left-wing daily ETC. She also writes for The Guardian, TruthDig, and Feminist Current. She is the author of books such as El ser y la merchandise where she compares the sex industry and the surrogacy industry, and how both commercialize the body of women; and Stolen Spring describes the euro crisis seen from Athens and the way it has affected the Greek economy.
Argentine, Deputy Prosecutor of the Trial against the Juntas in 1985. Later he participated in the conviction of the personnel of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires, the mutinous military in Aeroparque (1988), the commanders of the Malvinas War (1989) and to the officers who participated in the last military rebellion led by Mohamed Seineldín (1990). Former Attorney General of the International Criminal Court. He analyzed crimes committed in 17 different countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Colombia, and Uganda. He opened investigations in 7 countries, successfully prosecuted national leaders including Muammar Gadhafi in Libya, former President Laurent Gbagbo of the Margil Coast and Sudanese President Omar al Bashir for genocide in Darfur. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University and Harvard. He taught courses on the Israel/Palestine conflict at Hebrew University and Al-Quds University. She currently teaches in the interdisciplinary department at the City University of New York and at the University of Southern California School of Motion Picture Arts.
Chilean, former representative of the Socialist Party, filmmaker and politician, founder of the Progressive Party in 2010. Militant of the Socialist Party of Chile between 1990 and 2009. Member of the Puebla group. Son of the co-founder and general secretary of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), the doctor Miguel Enríquez and the journalist, sociologist and television producer Manuela Gumucio. As a result of the military coup, he lived in exile with his mother in France until he was 13 years old. He studied philosophy at the University of Chile. During his third year, he contracted hepatitis, a disease that left him disabled for several months. During that period he found his love for the cinema. In 1996 he returned to France to carry out an intensive workshop for film directors at La Fémis (National Higher School of Image and Sound Trades) in Paris where he also worked as a professor in the Film and Film Production area of Arcis University. in Santiago, and between 1997 and 1998, he was a professor at the Extension Center of the Catholic University of Peru. That last year, he became executive director of Productora Rivas y Rivas, a company where he produced, was a scriptwriter, and directed several short films, feature films, reports, publicity spots, video clips, institutional videos, and telefilms, among which stand out: Chilean Tales, Tales of the City and the series Life is a Lottery.
Member of the European Parliament representing the Left Group. Vice President of the Commission for Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Jurist and professor of Philosophy of Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid. She is a researcher and academic secretary at the Institute for Gender Studies at the same university. She serves as deputy director of the Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Institute, where she directs a feminist studies group and the UNESCO Chair on Violence and Human Rights.
Secretary of Disability of the Municipality of Montevideo. He was a Special Education teacher at ANEP and a university professor at the University of the Republic (2017-2018). Master's Degree in Education, Society and Politics. Postgraduate in Social Policies Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic. Degree in Psychomotricity from Cediiap.
She is Chilean, coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, Global Network of Religions in Favor of Children (Arigatou International). She teaches at the Evangelical Theological Community of Chile, in the areas of comparative religions, interreligious dialogue and communications. She was a volunteer at the Chilean Association of Interreligious Dialogue for Human Development, of which she is currently part of the board, and is in charge of communications and the development of interreligious meetings in the city of Santiago. An enthusiast for the study of world religions, she completed three diplomas in comparative religions with a minor focus on Judaism, Arab and Islamic culture, and ancient Mesopotamia and Egyptology. She is currently finishing her master's degree in interreligious dialogue.
General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Uruguay. She is the former president of the Uruguayan Frente Amplio (FA) party from 2012 to 2015. Senator of the Republic from until 2020, she was the first woman to hold the position in the history of the Socialist Party of the Republic. Cardiologist. Throughout her political career, she has participated in initiatives and public policies with a gender perspective, in favor of women's sexual and reproductive rights.
Executive Secretary of the Andean Health Agency. She was the former Minister of Health and Sports of Bolivia from 2006 to 2012. She was a member of the board of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia. She was President of the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared, FEDEFAM, an organization that brings together all similar associations, from the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo to the Association of Relatives of Mexico. She was also President of the Association of Relatives of the Disappeared Detainees of Bolivia, ASOFAMD. For her tireless work in various fields, she was awarded by various institutions, such as the decoration of the Honorable Municipal Mayor of La Paz, Republic of France and Argentine Air Force. Medical surgeon. Vice-chancellor and interim rector of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés Bolivia and authority Faculty of Medicine UMSA. She is honorary president of the Board of Directors of Caja Petrolera de Salud Bolivia and of the Bolivian Truth Commission between the years 2017-2019.
Argentine, renowned social pediatrician, teacher, popular educator and former vice president of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Currently, he chairs the Defense of Children International – Argentine Section with consultative status with the United Nations, and the Committee for the Defense of Health, Ethics and Human Rights. Pediatrician and activist for the rights of children and adolescents. He is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the National Pedagogical University, the National University of Tres de Febrero and the National University of the Northeast. In 1994 he was undersecretary of Childhood, Family and Human Development of the province of Buenos Aires and between 2002 and 2003 he was president of the National Council for Children, Adolescents and Family. He has also been coordinator of the Adolescence program.
Argentine, he is a member of the United Nations Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of their Families as an independent expert (period 2022-2025). He was a consultant for different UNICEF offices on issues of the rights of children and adolescents in the context of migration. At the regional level, he has worked in numerous Latin American countries, within the framework of various initiatives aimed at promoting public policies on migration from a rights-based approach. In Argentina, in turn, it has contributed, from academic spheres and civil society, to the processes that led to the adoption, implementation and evaluation of the current migration law, working constructively with the main institutional actors in the subject. He is director of the Specialization in Migration and Asylum at the National University of Lanús (UNLa), and coordinator of the Program on migration and asylum at the Institute of Justice and Human Rights (UNLa). He is also a professor of Migrations and Human Rights in the Law School of the Faculty of Law (UBA). He is the author of numerous publications on migration, human mobility policies and the rights of migrants and refugees and their families. He is a lawyer graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, a Doctor in Human Rights from the University of Valencia, and a Master's in International Migration from the European University of Madrid. and coordinator of the Program on migration and asylum of the Institute of Justice and Human Rights (UNLa). He is also a professor of Migrations and Human Rights in the Law School of the Faculty of Law (UBA). He is the author of numerous publications on migration, human mobility policies and the rights of migrants and refugees and their families. He is a lawyer graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, a Doctor in Human Rights from the University of Valencia, and a Master's in International Migration from the European University of Madrid. and coordinator of the Program on migration and asylum of the Institute of Justice and Human Rights (UNLa). He is also a professor of Migrations and Human Rights in the Law School of the Faculty of Law (UBA). He is the author of numerous publications on migration, human mobility policies and the rights of migrants and refugees and their families. He is a lawyer graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, a Doctor in Human Rights from the University of Valencia, and a Master's in International Migration from the European University of Madrid.
