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Cecilia Medina Quiroga (born 1935 in Concepción) is a Chilean
on the rights of men and women as set out in Article 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In 2004 she was elected to the
She is a co-director, with José Zalaquett, of the University of Chile's Human Rights Centre, where she organises a postgraduate course on women's rights for practising lawyers. She has also taught at Lund University, the International Institute of Human Rights, the University of Toronto, the United Nations University for Peace, the University of Utrecht and Harvard University, and has published extensively on human rights issues.
Judge Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Inter-American Court
1935 births Harvard University staff United Nations Human Rights Committee members People from Concepción, Chile Living people Chilean women lawyers Inter-American Court of Human Rights judges Chilean officials of the United Nations Chilean judges of international courts and tribunals 20th-century Chilean lawyers 21st-century Chilean judges 20th-century women lawyers 21st-century women judges {{Chile-law-bio-stub
Cecilia Medina Quiroga (born 1935 in Concepción) is a Chilean jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
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Biography
Cecilia Medina studied legal and social sciences at the University of Chile in Santiago and earned a doctorate in law at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. From 1995 to 2002 she was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, including a period as its chair in 1999–2000. While on the Human Rights Committee she authored its General Comment 2on the rights of men and women as set out in Article 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In 2004 she was elected to the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR or IACtHR) is an international court based in San José, Costa Rica. Together with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, it was formed by the American Convention on Human Rights, a huma ...
, serving as its vice president in 2007 and as its president for the 2008–09 period (the first time a woman has held the office). In 2004 she also became a member of the International Commission of Jurists
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is an international human rights non-governmental organization. It is a standing group of 60 eminent jurists—including senior judges, attorneys and academics—who work to develop national and inte ...
. In 2006 she was awarded the Gruber Prize for Women's Rights.
In December 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council selected her for the group of independent experts assigned to investigate the November 2006 Beit Hanoun incidentbr>She is a co-director, with José Zalaquett, of the University of Chile's Human Rights Centre, where she organises a postgraduate course on women's rights for practising lawyers. She has also taught at Lund University, the International Institute of Human Rights, the University of Toronto, the United Nations University for Peace, the University of Utrecht and Harvard University, and has published extensively on human rights issues.
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Judge Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Inter-American Court
1935 births Harvard University staff United Nations Human Rights Committee members People from Concepción, Chile Living people Chilean women lawyers Inter-American Court of Human Rights judges Chilean officials of the United Nations Chilean judges of international courts and tribunals 20th-century Chilean lawyers 21st-century Chilean judges 20th-century women lawyers 21st-century women judges {{Chile-law-bio-stub