| © Successió Miró 2009 | | Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH | Alicia is the 2007-09 Petrie-Flom Fellow on Global Health and Human Rights at H
arvard Law School, and Critical Concepts Editor of the international journal, Health and Human Rights. She is also an Instructor in the Law and Public Health Progra  m at the Harvard School of Public Health. Through August, 2007, Yamin was Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights, where she oversaw all of the field investigations for the organization. She has conducted documentation and advocacy with human rights NGOs in Latin America and the United States for twenty years and has published several books and dozens of articles on health and human rights in both English and Spanish. Alicia is on the Boards of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (US/Spain) and Mental Disability Rights International (US), as well as on the advisory board of the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (US) and Association MINGAPeru (Peru). She is on the editorial review boards of the Human Rights Quarterly (US), Human Rights and the Global economy (US), and the Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos (Mexico). Alicia received her JD cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1991; she received her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health in 1996, where she was awarded the Samdperil Health Law Essay Award and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Health & Human Rights Essay Award. She has an extensive record of academic publications on issues linking human rights and health. Her work promotes a comprehensive vision of advocacy and academic perspectives. | | Aubrey McCutcheon | Aubrey serves as the Director of Programs at Global Rights. He was trained as a social scientist and lawyer in both the US and UK. He has more than two decades of diverse professional experience in the development sector, human rights, legislative affairs, public interest law, and philanthropy; including program development, evaluation, advocacy, teaching, community organizing, NGO management and capacity building, and congressional office management. Most recently, he has lived for many years in Southern Africa and South Asia, first as a Ford Foundation program officer for human rights and social justice and later working as a consultant to support and evaluate the work of civil society groups and other institutions. Earlier he served as a congressional staff director in the US and has served as staff or board member for several NGOs, including a post as Executive Director of the Washington Office on Africa. On shorter assignments, he has consulting experience in several other parts of the world. Aubrey has a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and later earned a M.Sc. at the London School of Economics in the field of Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries and a LL.M degree in Law and Development at the University of London"s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). | | Gaby Oré-Aguilar, JD LL.M |
Gaby is human rights advocate specialized in international human rights and comparative law.
 For over twelve years Gaby has been engaged in human rights advocacy and gender justice issues in Latin America and the United States working as a litigator, legal researcher, policy analyst. She was a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in Santiago, Chile. Previously, she established and coordinated the Latin America Program of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and worked as an attorney and human rights educator at the Instituto de Defensa Legal based in Lima. Recently, Gaby designed and developed a research project looking at reparations in domestic legal systems for crimes perpetrated against women in the context of armed conflicts. She has been an invited lecturer in various academic centres including the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice) and theUniversity of Deusto in Bilbao. She is member of the Advisory Committee of the Project ‘Localising Human Rights’ implemented by the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and member of the Editorial Board of the Quarterly Journal ‘Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales’ from the Research Center on Peace (Madrid). She has published on issues intersecting human rights and gender justice.
She holds a Master in law degree from Columbia University Law School where she received the International and Comparative Law Diploma awarded with Honours by the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law in 1996. She earned a J.D. and a B.A. in Political Science by the University of San Marcos, Lima and a Diploma in Gender Studies by the Catholic University, Lima. | | Ignacio Saiz | Ignacio is Research Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), an international NGO based in Madrid and New York, which promotes interdisciplinary approaches to economic and social rights monitoring, research and advocacy. Prior to joining CESR, he was Director of Policy at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, where his responsibilities included steering Amnesty"s entry into the field of economic, social and cultural rights, and developing policy and strategy on issues ranging from sexual and reproductive rights to corporate accountability. Previous roles at Amnesty International have included Deputy Director of the Americas Program, Policy Coordinator and Central America Researcher. Ignacio has also worked as a freelance human rights consultant for several other organizations in areas relating to sexuality and human rights, the prevention of torture and post-conflict accountability. Ignacio holds a Masters degree in International Human Rights Law with distinction from the University of Essex and a Batchelor of Arts degree in French, Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Cambridge. |
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