felipe gomez isa

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Felipe Gómez Isa is Professor of Public International Law, and researcher at the Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights of the University of Deusto (Bilbao, The Basque Country, Spain). He is National Director of the European Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (EMA) organized by 40 European Universities in the framework of the Global Campus of Human Rights (Venice, Italy) since 2000. He was the Spanish representative to the Working Group for the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (UN, 1998 and 1999). He has been Visiting Professor in several European and Latin American Universities. He has published extensively on issues related to the universal protection of human rights, particularly children and women’s rights; transitional justice or indigenous peoples’ rights. In December 2019 he was elected as Vice-President of the Global Campus of Human Rights, a leading global academic organization dealing with human rights issues. He was the Director for several years of the UN Fellowship Program for Indigenous Leaders jointly developed by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Institute of Human Rights of the University of Deusto.