COMPOSITION OF THE IACHR 2010

BOARD OF OFFICERS

Felipe González, Chair
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, First Vice Chair
Dinah Shelton, 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. 
 

Please click on the name to open a high resolution picture of the Commissioner. The reproduction of the pictures is authorized and free of charge. Credit: OAS
NAME	MEMBER STATE	TERM OF OFFICE
Felipe González	Chile	1/1/2008-12/31/2011
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro	Brazil	1/1/2004-12/31/2011
Dinah Shelton	Unites States	1/1/2010-12/31/2013
Rodrigo Escobar Gil	Colombia	1/1/2010-12/31/2013
María Silvia Guillén	El Salvador	1/1/2010-12/31/2011
José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez	Mexico	1/1/2010-12/31/2013
Luz Patricia Mejía Guerrero	Venezuela	1/1/2008-12/31-2011

      Elected during the thirty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly in 2007 for a four year period provided by the Regulations, counted as of January 1, 2008.

    Re-elected during the thirty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly in 2007 for a four year period provided by the Regulations, counted as of January 1, 2008.

    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 in the December 3, 2009 Regular Session of the Permanent Council pursuant to Article 11 of the Statute of the IACHR, to complete the mandate of Commissioner Florentín Melendez who resigned effective December 31, 2009.

SECRETARIAT OF THE IACHR

Executive Secretary:  Canton, Santiago

Assistant Executive Secretary:  Abi-Mershed, Elizabeth

Professionals

Alban, Juan Pablo

Amieva, Silvia

Aparicio, Nerea

Baeyens, Angelita

Banfi, Analía

Benchoam, Débora

Blanchard, Marisol

Brunner, Lisl

Bruno, Silvana

Celorio, Rosa

Cerna, Christina

Cerqueira, Daniel

Ching Soto, Lilly

Cifuentes, Ivonne

Colledani, Norma

Colón, Evelyn

Corominas, Paulina

Giraldo, Dania

Gómez, Fanny

Guzmán, Federico

Hidaka, Leonardo

López Garelli, Mario

Madariaga, Isabel

Madrigal, Víctor

Mansel, Karin

Melzi, Fiorella

Noli, Milagros

Pizarro, Andrés

Portillo, Federico

Pulido, María Claudia

Quintana, Karla

Rivero, María-Isabel

Rodríguez, Daniel

Serrano, Silvia

Sobers, Oliver Hilaire

Tavares, Marta

Veramendi, María José

Administrative Personnel

Amézquita, Aurora

Blackwell, Melanie

Franco, Olga

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