Human Rights in the Americas: Challenges, Obstacles and Opportunities

Flávia Piovesan is a Commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and a professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (DRCLAS); Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School (1995 and 2000). She was also a human rights fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, at the University of Oxford in 2005, and has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) on numerous occasions.

Current Trends on Migration and Human Rights

Felipe Gonzalez Morales is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. He is a former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where he was also a Commissioner and the Rapporteur on Migrants and Refugees between 2008 and 2015. Felipe is a Professor of International Law at the University Diego Portales, in Santiago, Chile, where he also directs a Master in International Human Rights Law. Felipe is an Honorific Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, at which he teaches International Human Rights Law at a series of postgraduate programs since 2003.