INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Ms Galindo was the Director of the Robert F. Kennedy Training Institute in Florence, Italy. She has worked as an International Human Rights Consultant and has taught human rights courses in countries around the world including Bahamas, Ecuador, Georgia, Palestine, Syria, Mongolia, Myanmar, Italy, Israel, Brazil, Malaysia, Kenya, Thailand, Paraguay, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Uruguay and the United States. She developed and directs the annual training courses on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, both for civil society and government officials. The trainings are co-organized by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), American University Washington College of Law, Texas University, the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights (IIDH), and Robert F Kennedy Human Rights.

Prior to her consulting work, Ms. Galindo managed the Education and Training Program at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) in Geneva. During her time there, she delivered numerous trainings and developed several training manuals on access to International Mechanisms. She has also developed a training manual for indigenous women on the Inter-American HR System.

She also served as Human Rights Specialist at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and coordinated the Special Unit for Human Rights Defenders. Early in her career, she worked for the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) and the Center for Studies for Infants and Youth (CELIJ) in Argentina. She was also a professor of Human Rights and International Law at the University of Buenos Aires. Ms. Galindo holds a law degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires and studied in the master’s degree program in International Human Rights at American University. She is visiting Professor at Bennington College since 2016.