Maria Luisa Aguilar Rodriguez, MEXICO
The Human Rights Crisis in Mexico: Origins, Impacts, Opportunities.
The 2019 Justice For Women Lecture will be presented by Ms. Aguilar Rodriguez, International Advocacy Officer at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh), on March 27, 2019. She will discuss The Human Rights Crisis in Mexico: Origins, Impacts, Opportunities.
Ms. Aguilar Rodriguez is a Mexican human rights advocate. She has spent the last eight years working to promote accountability for human rights violations at two of Mexico’s foremost human rights organizations. She joined the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Centro Prodh) after working at a grassroots organization in the State of Guerrero in Southern Mexico, a state notorious for its violence and human rights abuses. At Centro Prodh, she focuses on access to justice and reparations for victims of human rights violations. She advocates for new judicial mechanisms aimed at combating impunity and works on cases related to women’s and indigenous rights, torture (especially sexual torture against women), and enforced disappearances.
Ms. Aguilar Rodriguez holds a B.A. in International Affairs from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and an M.A. in Human Rights in Theory and Practice from the University of Essex, UK.
Background materials
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BOOKS
A. S. Dawson, First World dreams: Mexico since 1989. (2006). HN113.5 .D39 2006 Find in a library
Jon Sack, La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico (2015). Non-fiction graphic novel LC: PN6737.S235; JC599.M42; Dewey: 323/.092 Find in a library Paperback & free ebook ($6.78 at publisher).
W. P. Simmons and C. McClurg Mueller, Binational human rights: the U.S.-Mexico experience (2014). Find in a library
N. A Uildriks, Mexico's unrule of law: implementing human rights in police and judicial reform under democratization (2010) HV8161.A2 U45 2010 Find in a library
The Justice For Women Lecture (JFW) Series brings a distinguished speaker to Maine annually to present a public lecture and to contribute to a global conversation about justice for women and girls in the developing world. The Lecture Series was established in 2011 with the generous support and leadership of Catherine Lee of Lee International.