Miriam Estrada-Castillo

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Dr. Miriam Estrada-Castillo is a member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. She is a Professor of International Law, International Criminal Law and Human Rights and the Director of the UNESCO Chair at Casa Grande University, of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

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Individual Justice Cannot Be Streamlined: Some Reflections on Special Procedures Reform

In a recent article published on Universal Rights Group, Professor Alice Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, has offered a thoughtful and provocative proposal to reform the Special Procedures system. Observing that the system faces genuine challenges — inadequate funding, growing caseloads, inconsistent State cooperation, and what she describes as "a digital wasteland of lost hope…

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