Author: Rocío Quintero M.

[Carlos Lusverti and Rocío Quintero M are both Legal Advisers for the International Commission of Jurists] The Venezuelan educational system has been in rapid decline. In 2016, in the midst of a wider national humanitarian crisis, teachers started leaving school due to a drastic decrease in teachers' wages. There was also a significant augment in the student dropout rate. Compounding these...

Rocío Quintero M. is a Legal Adviser with the Latin American Programme of the International Commission of Jurists After more than six years of negotiations, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC-EP from its acronym in Spanish) reached a peace agreement in November 2016.  Unlike other previous peace negotiations in Colombia, victims’ rights were a major focus of the negotiations. In...