OAS elects three new members of the IACHR and four of the Inter-American Court

The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) elected three new members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and four of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).

The new members of the CIDH, elected by the majority of the votes for the period 2022-2025, are the Mexican Joel Hernandez Garcia, who renewed his seat; the barbadian Roberta Clarke and the colombian Carlos Bernal Pulido.

To integrate the I / A Court HR Starting in 2022 and for the next five years, the Brazilian were elected at the beginning of the third session of the 51st General Assembly. Rodrigo Bittencourt Mydrovitsch, Argentina Veronica Gomez, the Costa Rican Nancy Hernandez Lopez and the Chilean Patricia Perez Goldberg.

Goldberg won her place in a playoff with Paraguayan Miryam Josefina Peña Candia.

Prior to the election in the CIDH, more than 60 Colombian, American and Americas organizations rejected Bernal Pulido’s candidacy for the CIDH, nominated by the Government of Colombia.

In a press release, the organizations criticized that Bernal adopted during his time at the Constitutional Court of his country decisions that allegedly “attacked the human rights of some sectors of the population”.

Specifically, according to the organizations, Bernal Pulido took “decisions that violated the rights of boys and girls, women, the LGBTIQ + community, peasants, among others ”.

In addition, the 34 delegations meeting in the OAS Assembly unanimously elected Dean Evanson, from Antigua and Barbuda, to the Board of External Auditors.

In addition, for the Administrative Tribunal of the OAS, Wilson Vallejo Bazante, from Ecuador; and for the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, the position was held by Jenny Murphy and Nadia Franco Basán, for the United States and Panama, respectively.

Likewise, the Peruvian Luis García-Corrochano Moyano was appointed, the only candidate who ran to fill the three vacancies on the Inter-American Juridical Committee.

Guatemalan Foreign Minister Pedro Brolo, who chairs the 51st General Assembly of the OAS, indicated that the other two members will be defined by the OAS Permanent Council before December 15.

Guatemala is the host country of the 51st General Assembly of the OAS, which comes to an end this Friday after being held for three days virtually for the second consecutive year due to the pandemic.