Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño
Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño is a lawyer and Supreme Count judge. She is a Panamanian Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS). In 2019 she became President of that body.
Esmeralda Arosemena Troitiño | |
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Nationality | Panama |
Occupation | Judge |
Life
Troitiño is from Panama. She has two degrees. The first is in Philosophy, Letters and Education, with a specialization in Pedagogy and she also has a degree in Law and Political Science.[1]
In 2011 she was working for the Commission preparing the 2016 Constitutional Procedural Code for Panama.[1] She has been Vice President of Panama's Supreme Court of Justice as well as being a judge.[2] She was President of the Panama's Criminal Chamber II and a judge for the Superior Court of Children and Adolescents.[1]
She was elected on June 16, 2015, by the OAS General Assembly, for a four-year term that runs from January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2019.[3]
In February 2019 Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño was elected by the seven commissioners to be President of Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), whilst at a meeting in Sucre, Bolivia.[4]
References
- OEA (2009-08-01). "OEA - Organización de los Estados Americanos: Democracia para la paz, la seguridad y el desarrollo". www.oas.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- "Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño". Global Embassy of Activists for Peace. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- OAS (2009-08-01). "OAS - Organization of American States: Democracy for peace, security, and development". www.oas.org. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- Octubre, Corprensa Apartado 0819-05620 El Dorado Ave 12 de; Panamá, Hato Pintado; Panamá, República de (2019-02-08). "La panameña Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño es elegida nueva presidenta de la CIDH". La Prensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-19.