Sofía Minieri

For more than seven years, she has conducted research on the intersection of gender equality and disability rights and contributed to cross-movement advocacy efforts to promote sexual and reproductive rights for women and girls with disabilities in Argentina and Latin America. As an independent consultant for the Spotlight Initiative in Argentina, she has developed guidelines for legal practitioners on gender-based violence against women with disabilities and how to ensure their access to justice. In 2018, she was a fellow and consultant for the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women and the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, where she monitored State policies on violence and discrimination against women, girls and adolescents, and co-authored a report on gender-based violence against journalists.