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Authorities: Human Rights

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

Felipe González
Chair
(Chile)

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
First Vice Chair
(Brazil)

Dinah Shelton
Second Vice Chair
(United States)

Other Commissioners

• Luz Patricia Mejía Guerrero (Venezuela)
• María Siliva Guillén (El Salvador)
• José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez (Mexico)
• Rodrigo Escobar Gil (Colombia)

Santiago Canton, Executive Secretary
(Argentina)

Catalina Botero-Marino, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
(Colombia)

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Cecilia Medina Quiroga, President

Diego García Sayán, Vice-President

Other Judges

• Sergio García Ramírez
• Margarette May Macaulay
• Manuel E. Ventura Robles
• Leonardo A. Franco
• Rhadys Abreu Blondet