Farewell to Commissioner Antonia Urrejola

Permanent Council · Regular meeting
Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

Ambassador Josué Fiallo, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic
As Chair of the Permanent Council

Full minutes of the meeting: CP/ACTA 2356/21

Webcast of the full meeting: Spanish audio · original audio

The meeting

Regular meeting · CP/ACTA 2356/21 · Dominican Chair · order of business

Aprobación del orden del día
Conmemoración del Día de los Derechos Humanos
Homenaje a la Jueza Elizabeth Odio Benito, Presidenta de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos al concluir su período en dicho Tribunal Regional
Despedida a la Comisionada Antonia Urrejola Noguera, Presidenta de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
Homenaje al Excmo. señor James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, KCMG PC (Rt.), ex Primer Ministro de San Vicente y las Granadinas
Logros del Museo de Arte de las Américas durante la pandemia del COVID-19
Informe Anual de Gestión de la Secretaría de Acceso a Derechos y Equidad
Instalación de los órganos subsidiarios del Consejo Permanente
Elección de la Presidencia de la Comisión de Asuntos Jurídicos y Políticos
Consideración de la distribución de mandatos emanados del quincuagésimo primer período ordinario de sesiones de la Asamblea General y otros períodos anteriores
Aprobación de las actas de sesiones del Consejo Permanente
Otros asuntos

The meeting in the minutes →

Translated from the Spanish original, which is the authoritative text.

The next item on the order of business is the farewell to Commissioner Antonia Urrejola Noguera, whose term concludes this coming December 31.

Commissioner Antonia Urrejola Noguera is a lawyer from the University of Chile, with a postgraduate diploma in human rights and democratization processes from the same university. In the course of her career she has held numerous posts related to human rights in the Government of Chile. She was an adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, working with the Human Rights program and on matters of Memory, Truth and Justice, and took part in drafting and processing several bills on national human rights institutions, political persecution and torture, among others. She was also an adviser to the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, especially on human rights institutions for children and sexual diversity, and likewise worked in the Special Commission on Indigenous Peoples, the Ministry of National Assets and the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation.

Commissioner Antonia Urrejola Noguera has also been a consultant to international bodies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and served as principal adviser to the former Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, between 2006 and 2011. She has taught at various institutions of higher education and is the author of numerous publications on subjects related to the defense and promotion of human rights.

Commissioner Antonia Urrejola Noguera was elected by the OAS General Assembly to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in June 2017 for the term from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021. Within the IACHR, her functions and contributions stand out as Rapporteur for Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia and Nicaragua, as well as Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Rapporteur on Memory, Truth and Justice. On March 15, 2021, she assumed the Presidency of the IACHR, an explicit recognition of her outstanding performance during her term, becoming the first Chilean woman to preside over that body.

Madam President, on behalf of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States, we thank you for your contribution to the promotion of the values and principles of the Inter-American Human Rights System, to the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and for your struggle against impunity and your promotion of comprehensive reparation, truth and memory on our continent. We wish you every success in your new endeavors.