Mariela Belski (born 1971) is an Argentine feminist lawyer and human rights activist.[1] As an activist, she promotes the defense and exercise of the rights of women and young people.[2][3] She is an ambassador for #EllaDecide (#SheDecides),[4] the global women's rights movement.[5][6] Since 2011, she has served as executive director of Amnesty International Argentina.[7]
Early life and education
Mariela Belski was born in Buenos Aires, 1971.[8] She studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, obtaining her degree with an orientation in administrative law and later specialized in human rights. She completed a master's degree in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex,[9] and later took a postgraduate course in Human Rights and Democratization Processes at the University of Chile.
Career
Belski is a member of the Women Leaders of the Americas Committee, an initiative of the Documentation Foundation.[10] She is also a delegate of "Women 20", a transnational network that brings together women leaders to influence the agenda of the G20 decision-making groups.[11][12] She has represented Argentina on international panels on human rights issues in the world and the region, such as the human rights crisis in Venezuela.[13][14]
Regarding issues on the national agenda, she has taken part in parliamentary debates on the modification of the law regulating the country's immigration policy,[15] and the project for the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE).[16] She has been invited as a specialist to participate in public debates in the country. Among other topics she addressed the humanitarian situation in Venezuela,[17] sexual and reproductive rights,[18] the refugee crisis,[19] and climate change.[20]
Selected works
Background paper on strategic litigation on women's sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America for the “Progress of the World’s Women Access to Justice : (2011), UNIFEM New York, USA.[21]
“La judicialización de la política: el litigio estructural en materia educativa, posibilidades y obstáculos”, (2009) Revista Propuesta Educativa, No33, FLACSO, Buenos Aires Argentina.[22]
“The implication of the Global Financial Crisis for NGOs working towards the achievement of Education for All: Country Case Study Argentina”, (2009) UNESCO.
“Desigualdad Educativa en la Provincia de Buenos Aires” (2009). Asociación por los Derechos Civiles.[23]
La Corte y los Derechos: Un informe sobre el contexto y el impacto de sus decisiones durante el período 2005–2007, ADC,(2008) Siglo XXI editores.[24]
“Access to Information: An Instrumental Right for Empowerment”. Article 19 y Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (2007).[25]
“Una Censura Sutil: Abuso de publicidad oficial y otras restricciones a la libertad de expresión en Argentina”. Co-Autora (2005), Asociación por los Derechos Civiles. Open Society Justice Initiative.[26]
