Jimena Reyes

Jimena Reyes is the Director for the Americas at International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). Since 2003, she has investigated human rights violations and public policies in 17 countries in Latin America and Northern America and contributed to the drafting of more than 30 reports on human rights issues. She advocated at international, regional and national level: she represented victims from Chile and Honduras in front of the Inter-American system of human rights and coordinated national litigation in France, Belgium and Spain. She has also drafted and presented International Criminal Court communications on Colombia, Honduras and Mexico. She is co-author of several books, articles and reports, such as Europe, Diplomacy and Development (2001), “United States-Mexico Walls, Abuses, and Deaths at the borders” (2008), “L’Amérique Latine et l’obligation de juger ou d’extrader les responsables de crimes contre l’humanité” (2011) or “La Corte Penal Internacional y sus primeros 10 años: un enfoque práctico” (2012).