Alejandra Vicente

@AVicente_Carr

About/Bio

Alejandra Vicente is Head of Law at REDRESS. Previously she was the Legal Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). She is a member of the secretariat of the GQUAL campaign, which seeks to achieve gender parity in the composition of international courts and human rights tribunals. Prior to joining CEJIL, Alejandra worked for five years at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Alejandra has a law degree from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, and an LLM on Public International Law from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Recently Published

Discriminatory torture of an LGBTI person: landmark precedent set by the Inter-American Court (Azul Rojas Marín and Another v. Peru)

In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) has issued a landmark judgment in the case of Azul Rojas Marín and Another v. Peru, enhancing the rights of LGBTI persons, and setting new standards with the potential to reduce the levels of violence suffered by this group both within…

Read more