On 26 August 2024, the President of the Human Rights Council appointed Víctor Rodríguez Rescia as new member of EMLER. He
is President of the Centre for Civil and Political Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, and of the International Institute for Social Responsibility and Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. He is also a member of the General Assembly for the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights and of the Assembly of the International Commission of Jurists, and a visiting professor at various universities, including Columbia University and the University of Verona. He is a former member of the UN Human Rights Committee, in which he was the Special Rapporteur for follow-up on communications, and a former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, where he served as President. He is also a former Deputy Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and a former Director of the Human Rights Centre for the Americas. Mr. Rodríguez Rescia has produced numerous publications on human rights, strategic litigation, access to justice and social responsibility. He holds a degree in international law from the University of Costa Rica.
