Felipe González Morales is a Chilean lawyer and academic, specializing in international human rights law. He was a commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) between 2008 and 2011, a body he chaired between 2010 and 2011 and where he served as rapporteur on migrants. In 2017, he was appointed as United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, a position he held until 2023.
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Education
editGonzález Morales holds a bachelor's degree in legal and social science from the University of Chile, master's degrees in international law from American University in the United States and in advanced human rights studies from Carlos III University in Spain, and a doctorate in law, also from Carlos III University.[1]
Career
editHe is a professor of international law at Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile, where he also directs a masters' course in international human rights law. He is also a member of the law faculty at American University in Washington, D.C., United States.[2]
In 2007 he was elected a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the human rights arm of the Organization of American States, by the OAS General Assembly,[3] and he was elected to a second four-year term in 2011.[4][5] During his time as a commissioner from 2008 to 2015 he served as the IACHR's rapporteur for migrants[6][7] and, from March 2010 to March 2011, as the commission's president.[5]
In June 2017, Felipe González Morales was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to serve as the UN's Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants.[7] His appointment was renewed for a further three-year term in June 2020.[8] During his time in office, he has conducted country visits[9] to Poland and Belarus,[10] Bosnia and Herzegovina,[11] Hungary,[12] Niger[13] and Nepal.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Felipe González Morales". Universidad Diego Portales. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Felipe Gonzalez Morales". Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Candidates elected to fill the vacancies in Organs, Agencies and Entities of the Organization". Organization of American States. 5 June 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Candidates elected to occupy the vacancies in the Organs, Agencies, and Entities of the Organization". Organization of American States. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Former IACHR Commissioners". Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Rapporteurship on the Rights of Migrants: Former Rapporteurs". Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Felipe González Morales: Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "UN Special Rapporteur to assess migration policies in Bangladesh". ReliefWeb: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 20 January 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Special procedures: Country and other visits". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "UN expert praises generosity towards Ukrainian refugees by Poland and urges Belarus and Poland to end pushbacks". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "UN expert urges Bosnia and Herzegovina to assume State responsibility and respect migrant rights". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Hungary: Government's declared migrant 'crisis' does not correspond to reality and leads to human rights violations, says UN expert". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "Niger: human rights protection must be central to migration policies, says expert". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
- ^ "End-of-mission statement of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on his visit to Nepal". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 5 February 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2023.