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Chilean Professor chairs Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Felipe González is an expert in human rights and public interest law

The Inter-American Commission On Human Rights (CIDH) from the Organization of American States, OAS, this week elected Chilean human rights attorney Felipe Gonzalez as its new president.

Gonzalez is the director of a network of universities working on human rights and public interest law in Latin America. He also directs the series Annual Reports on Human Rights in Chile. Professor Gonzalez teaches International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law at Diego Portales University in Chile. He also teaches at American University in Washington, D.C., and is a visiting professor at Madrid’s Carlos III University.

In the 1990s, he worked in Washington, D.C., with Global Rights (formerly International Human Rights Law Group) and with the ACLU Project on National Security and Freedom of Expression. Professor Gonzalez holds an LL.M. from American University Washington College of Law.

CIDH also elected Brazilian Paulo Sergio Pinheiro as its 1st Vice President and U.S. citizen Dihan Shelton as 2nd Vice President.

By Steve Anderson (editor@santiagotimes.cl)