Pamela Pereira Fernández is a Chilean lawyer, noted for having defended, in numerous cases, victims of human rights violations committed during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).[1][2]

Pamela Pereira
Born
Pamela Pereira Fernández
NationalityChilean
OccupationLawyer

Education edit

Pereira studied Law at the University of Chile and has been a professor of legal clinics at the Faculty of Law of the same university (since 1994), and of criminal law at the Andrés Bello University.[3] She formed the Roundtable on Human Rights between 1999 and 2000.[4] She is currently a member of the Court Unit of the Public Criminal Defense Service of Chile.[3]

In January 2010 she was appointed by the Senate to the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Human Rights of Chile.[5]

She is a member of the Socialist Party of Chile.

Career edit

Pereira has served as Professor of Legal Clinics at the Faculty of Law (since 1994), and of Criminal Law at the Andrés Bello University.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ "Pinochet immunity plea fails". TheGuardian.com. 3 December 2004.
  2. ^ Steve J. Stern (30 April 2010). Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006. Duke University Press, 2010. pp. 238–239. ISBN 978-0822391777.
  3. ^ a b "Curriculum". web.derecho.uchile.cl. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Declaracion De La Mesa De Dialogo Sobre Derechos Humanos" (PDF). 31 August 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Pamela Pereira y Luis Hermosilla fueron designados por el Senado para integrar Consejo de Instituto de DD.HH | Amnistía Internacional - Chile". 11 February 2011. Archived from the original on 11 February 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  6. ^ Universidad de Chile (29 July 2010). "Curriculum Pamela Pereira Fernández".