Paula Avila-Guillen is a Colombian lawyer, specialist in human rights, and sexual and reproductive rights activist in Latin America. Currently, she is the Execute Director of the Women's Equality Center. At La-WEC, she works and collaborate with Latin-American organizations and leaders who works for the reproductive freedom in the region, designing strategies such as legal defense tactics and communication campaigns.[1]
Paula Avila-Guillen | |
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| Born | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Education | Universidad of Los Andes | American University |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer and Women's Rights Activist |
Biography
editPaula was born in Bogotá, Colombia.She graduated as a Lawyer from the University of Los Andes and studied a Master's Degree in Law with an emphasis on Human Rights at the American University's Washington College of Law. In 2012, she was admitted at the New York State Bar.
Professional background
editWomen's Equality Center, WEC
editAs Executive Director of WEC, she leads strategies, campaigns and tactics in search of eliminate the total abortion ban that exist all over Latin-America; allow emergency contraception and support local advocacy for women's rights in this world's region.[2][3][4]
Center of Reproductive Rights, CRR
editBetween 2014 and 2016, Avila-Guillen worked as Advocacy Consultant for Latin-America in the Center of Reproductive Rights. In this position, she created and implemented legal defense strategies and identified opportunities to connect high level organizations (such as United Nations and Organization of American States) with the issues and problems that women addressed in terms of sexual and reproductive rights.
At CRR, she also worked with the Communications Team directing the strategy to hold El Salvador's government [5][6][7] accountable of the unfair decisions made about tens of women condemned for aggravated homicide and being imprisoned after suffering a miscarriage or having other kinds of obstetric emergencies. Her work has contributed to freed of more than 15 women and it still being applied by a coalition of organizations, including the Women's Equality Center.
World Bank
editAs Consultant of the World Bank, Avila-Guillen lead a specific work for the implications for the Human Rights with the Zika epidemic.[8]
Publications and public speeches
editPaula Avila-Guillen has been published op-Eds and academic articles[9] related to sexual and reproductive rights, health and public policies. She had also lectured in different institutions and universities such as Harvard University and Georgetown University.
As international spokeswoman about women's rights, she has been interviewed and quoted by different media such as The New York Times,[10] The Washington Post,[11] The Economist, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNN en Español,[12][13] NPR,[14] Newsweek,[15][16] NBC News,[17] Al Jazeera, The Guardian, BBC World News, El País, The Huffington Post, The Miami Herald, BuzzFeed, and some others.
References
edit- ^ "Paula Ávila Guillén sobre el aborto: "Los derechos no se debaten" | Video". CNN (in Spanish). 22 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ Paula Avila-Guillen, Kelly Baden. "Global crackdown on access to abortion will cost women their lives | Opinion". The Miami Herald.
- ^ Fernanda Pintle (2020-09-28). "¿Por qué la despenalización del aborto es un tema de salud pública?". Business Insider México | Noticias pensadas para ti (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ Turkewitz, Julie (2020-03-01). "Abortion Case in Colombia Could Be a Landmark in Latin America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ Talk About Power. "From Miscarriage to Murder: How El Salvador's Women Are Fighting Their Country's Draconian Abortion Laws".
- ^ Lakhani, Presented by India Rakusen with Nina; Avila-Guillen, Paula; Rao, Randeep Ramesh; produced by Mythili; Cassin, Elizabeth; Maynard, Axel Kacoutié; executive producers Phil; Jackson, Nicole (2019-01-10). "On trial: El Salvador's abortion ban – podcast". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "El Salvador woman imprisoned after miscarriage released". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ "World tackles Zika outbreak". MSNBC.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ Paula Avila-Guillen. "AVANCES DE DERECHOS REPRODUCTIVOS EN AMERICA LATINA. Paula Avila Guillen, Asesora de Incidencia para LAC - PDF Descargar libre". docplayer.es. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
- ^ Turkewitz, Julie (2020-03-01). "Abortion Case in Colombia Could Be a Landmark in Latin America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ "Mexico decriminalizes abortion, a dramatic step in world's second-biggest Catholic country". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ "Pobres serían más perjudicadas con restricción al aborto | Video". CNN (in Spanish). 3 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ "El machismo no tiene color político y abogada dice por qué | Video". CNN (in Spanish). 25 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ Romo, Vanessa (2021-09-07). "Mexico's Supreme Court Has Voted To Decriminalize Abortion". NPR. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ "It's time to stop the Trump Administration's global war on women | Opinion". Newsweek. 2020-08-05. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ Roos, Meghan (2021-09-07). "Will Texas women be able to get an abortion more easily in Mexico?". Newsweek. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ Mexico Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion, 24 September 2021, retrieved 2021-09-29