Alicia Ely Yamin

1991

Alicia Ely Yamin

Program on Litigating Human Rights through the Inter-American System/Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos

New York, New York, US

Civil and Human Rights

The Bold Idea:

The program was designed to train Mexican atteorneys and human rights advocates how to bring cases in the Inter-American System on Human rights.  Cases were brought with various NGOs, workshops and trainings were held around the country and a manual was created.  Human rights practice has evolved significantly over the last 15 years and yoday, Mexican NGOs rotuinely bring cases to the Inter-American Commission so that a separate program or organization ceased to be necessary.

Biography:

Alicia Ely Yamin received both her JD a nd MPH from Harvard University. She was recently awarded the Petrie-Flom Fellowship on Global Health and Human Rights at Harvard Law School. Yamin also teaches in the Law and Public Health Program at the Harvard School of Public Health.  She was previously the Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights, where she oversaw all of the field investigations conducted by the organization.  Yamin is widely regarded as a leader in the conceptualization and operationalization of the right to health and rights-based approaches to health. She has worked with NGOs in the US and Latin America for over fifteen years on human rights advocacy and documentation and serves on the boards of multiple human rights organizations in the US and abroad.