Pamela Pereira

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Pamela Pereira
Born
Pamela Pereira Fernández
NationalityChilean
OccupationLawyer

Pamela Pereira Fernández is a Chilean lawyer, noted for having defended, in numerous cases, victims of human rights violations committed during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).[1][2]

Education[edit]

Pereira studied Law at the University of Chile and has been a professor of legal clinics at the Faculty of Law of the same university (since 1994), and of criminal law at the Andrés Bello University.[3] She formed the Roundtable on Human Rights between 1999 and 2000.[4] She is currently a member of the Court Unit of the Public Criminal Defense Service of Chile.[3]

In January 2010 she was appointed by the Senate to the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Human Rights of Chile.[5]

She is a member of the Socialist Party of Chile.

Career[edit]

Pereira has served as Professor of Legal Clinics at the Faculty of Law (since 1994), and of Criminal Law at the Andrés Bello University.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Pinochet immunity plea fails". TheGuardian.com. 3 December 2004.
  2. ^ Steve J. Stern (30 April 2010). Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006. Duke University Press, 2010. pp. 238–239. ISBN 978-0822391777.
  3. ^ a b "Curriculum". web.derecho.uchile.cl. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Declaracion De La Mesa De Dialogo Sobre Derechos Humanos" (PDF). 31 August 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Pamela Pereira y Luis Hermosilla fueron designados por el Senado para integrar Consejo de Instituto de DD.HH | Amnistía Internacional - Chile". 11 February 2011. Archived from the original on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  6. ^ Universidad de Chile (29 July 2010). "Curriculum Pamela Pereira Fernández".