Country Witness Expert on Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil
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Expert at The Human Rights Experts, an international expert witness organisation.
We provide expert witness reports for asylum cases worldwide, covering human rights violations, political persecution, and systemic oppression. Our reports are trusted by lawyers, courts, and immigration authorities, in full compliance with procedural standards and tribunal requirements in the UK (CPR Part 35, Upper Tribunal PD, First-tier Tribunal IAC PD), USA (Federal Rules of Evidence), Canada, and the EU.
Winner of the Expert Witness Awards in the category of Best Immigration, Asylum & Refugee Expert Witness 2024.
Human Rights and Transitional Justice Specialist
Regional Analyst on Political Violence and Social Movements
Legal and Policy Researcher
I provide expert analysis on all five Refugee Convention grounds: political opinion, religion, ethnicity, membership of a particular social group (including LGBT and gender-based cases), and nationality, with a focus on Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil.
This includes:
- State and paramilitary violence against political activists, indigenous leaders, and land defenders.
- Discrimination and criminalisation of Afro-descendants, Guarani, Mapuche, and other indigenous peoples.
- Gender-based violence, systemic impunity, and threats against women’s rights defenders.
- Targeting of LGBT individuals, including hate crimes, forced displacement, and denial of legal protection.
- Religious discrimination in rural regions and against non-Catholic communities.
- Arbitrary detention, police brutality, and repressive laws against protest movements.
- Statelessness, lack of documentation, and barriers to return for deportees and undocumented migrants.
- Corruption, collusion, and failure of protection institutions in violence-affected regions.
- Exposure to political persecution or retribution for whistleblowers, journalists, or those perceived as dissidents.
- Preparation of expert witness reports for asylum, immigration, and human rights cases.
- Provision of oral testimony before courts and tribunals.
- Verification and authentication of documents and country-specific evidence.
- Conducting nationality assessments, including statelessness evaluations.
- Author of regional research and publications on human rights violations in the Southern Cone.
- Contributor to national reports and NGO briefings on police violence, transitional justice, and structural racism.
- Expert member of The Human Rights Experts.
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Portuguese (Fluent)
English (Fluent)