Claudia Rodriguez Orrego

Claudia Rodriguez Orrego is a PhD Researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam and a member of this institute´s Research Groups on Political Ecology (PE) and Governance, Law, and Social Justice (GLSJ). Her research focuses on the intersection between human rights, judicial politics, political economy, and social policy reform and its interaction with human rights mobilization in contexts of high social inequality. She is particularly interested in contributing to research on Latin America and Colombia.

Claudia graduated with distinction from the MA in Development Studies (major in social policy for development and poverty studies) program at the International Institute of Social Studies and has a BA in Law (Distinction) from Universidad del Rosario in Colombia. Her interests in human rights and community empowerment led her to work as a human rights, capacity-building, and legal consultant at several United Nations Agencies in Colombia. With the United Nations, she collaborated with the transitional justice mechanisms (JEP, Truth Commission, UBPD) created in the Peace Accord between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP to facilitate the implementation of initiatives of denunciation, reparation, and reconciliation between victims and demobilized members of the FARC-EP.