COMPOSITION OF THE IACHR 2011

BOARD OF OFFICERS

Dinah Shelton, Chair
José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, First Vice Chair
Rodrigo Escobar Gil, Second Vice Chair


COMPOSITION AND ELECTION
 

According to the American Convention on Human Rights, the Commission shall be composed of seven members, who shall be persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights., elected in a personal capacity by the General Assembly of the Organization from a list of candidates proposed by the governments of the member states.  Each of those governments may propose up to three candidates, who may be nationals of the states proposing them or of any other member state of the Organization of American States.  When a slate of three is proposed, at least one of the candidates shall be a national of a state other than the one proposing the slate.

The members of the Commission are elected for a term of four years and may be reelected only once. 
 

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NAME	MEMBER STATE	TERM OF OFFICE
Felipe González	Chile	1/1/2008-12/31/2011
José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez	Mexico	1/1/2010-12/31/2013
Rodrigo Escobar Gil	Colombia	1/1/2010-12/31/2013
Dinah Shelton	Unites States	1/1/2010-12/31/2013
Tracy Robinson	Jamaica	1/1/2012-31/12/2015
Rosa Maria Ortiz	Paraguay	1/1/2012-31/12/2015
Rose-Marie Bella Antoine	Belize	1/1/2012-31/12/2015

      Re-elected during the Forty-one Regular Session of the General Assembly in 2011 for a four year period provided by the Regulations, counted as of January 1, 2012.

   Elected during the Thirty-ninth Regular Session of the General Assembly in 2009 for a four year period provided by the Regulations, counted as of January 1, 2010.

    Elected during the Forty-one Regular Session of the General Assembly in 2011, for a four year period provided by the Regulations, counted as of January 1, 2012.

 

SECRETARIAT OF THE IACHR

Executive Secretary:  Canton, Santiago

Assistant Executive Secretary:  Abi-Mershed, Elizabeth

Professionals

Amieva, Silvia

Aparicio, Nerea

Baeyens, Angelita

Banfi, Analía

Benchoam, Débora

Celorio, Rosa

Cerqueira, Daniel

Ching Soto, Lilly

Cifuentes, Ivonne

Colledani, Norma

Colón, Evelyn

Corominas, Paulina

Giraldo, Dania

Gómez, Fanny

Hidaka, Leonardo

López Garelli, Mario

Madariaga, Isabel

Madrigal, Víctor

Mansel, Karin

Melzi, Fiorella

Pizarro, Andrés

Portillo, Federico

Pulido, María Claudia

Quintana, Karla

Rivero, María-Isabel

Serrano, Silvia

Sobers, Oliver Hilaire

Tavares, Marta

Administrative Personnel

Blackwell, Melanie

Horwatt, Priscilla

Gamarra, Patricia

Gordon, Gloria

Koechlin, Lilia

Landázuri, Flor de María

López, Clara Cecilia

Márquez-Rey, Ana Cecilia

Mendoza, Joyce

Molina, Gloria Amanda

Morin, Sandra

Onetti, Mariela

Ramos, Claudia

Rivera, Leonor

Rivas, Ilcia

Soltes, Ronald