CURRICULUM VITAE
Victor Manuel Vera Garcia
Current Professional Activity
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July 2018 to date: Research Assistant at the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies (CEDECOMP) at the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights.
Previous Professional Activity
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September 2014 to June 2019: Tax Actuary at the Tax Administration Service (SAT), Decentralized Administration of Coahuila de Zaragoza "1".
Academic training
Autonomous University of Coahuila / Inter-American Academy of Human Rights: Master's Degree in Human Rights with International and Comparative Perspective, currently studying.
Autonomous University of Coahuila / Inter-American Academy of Human Rights: Specialist in Gender and Human Rights (honorable mention), October 2019.
Autonomous University of Coahuila / Faculty of Jurisprudence: Bachelor of Laws, June 2012.
Main Publications
Chapter (co-authored with Dr. Irene Spigno): “The forced disappearance of people during the Chilean dictatorship: analysis based on the film Colonia [2015]”, in Disappeared on the screens. The phenomenon of the forced disappearance of people from the cinema, Ríos Vega, Luis Efrén y Spigno, Irene (dirs.), Estrada Marún, José Antonio and Zamora Valadez, Carlos Eulalio (coords.), Tirant lo Blanch, Mexico City, 95-126 (in press).
Chapter (co-authored): Mexico, COVID-19: States' responses to the risk of increased domestic violence against women - Report for the call for submission of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women: COVID-19 and the increase of domestic violence against women (2020).
Jurisprudential commentary: Amparo direct 43/2018: right to health and discrimination, Akademía – International & Comparative Journal of Human Rights (2019).
Jurisprudential commentary: Navtej Singh Johar vs. Union of India, Academy – International & Comparative Journal of Human Rights (2018).
Newspaper column: 'Zaldívar Law': judicial independence in Mexico – Vanguardia newspaper (May 9, 2021).
Newspaper column: Constitutional crisis: pandemic and hyper-presidentialism? – Vanguardia newspaper (January 31, 2021).
Journalistic column: On forced inclusion and #WithTheChildrenNot: the current debate on having representation – Vanguardia newspaper (June 7, 2020).
Journalistic column: Time of contrasts, time for Human Rights – Vanguardia newspaper (June 9, 2019).
Docencia
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Asigunatura “Marco Internacional” en módulo Marco jurídico – conceptual del derecho a la igualdad de género y no discriminación en Especialidad de Género y Derechos Humanos, Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 11 y 12, 18 y 19 de noviembre de 2022.
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Asigunatura “Historia de los Derechos Humanos” en Maestría en Estudios Avanzados en Derechos Humanos, Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, 26 y 27 de agosto de 2022.
Congresses, Conferences and Seminars
“Equality, non-discrimination and Broadway: Proposal for a model class for law teachers” presentation at the CEEAD Legal Education Congress 2021, virtual modality (March 17 to 20, 2021).
"The specificity of the human right to the family of homosexual people through the work of the courts: a brief analysis of judicial activism" virtual presentation at the VIII Congress of the Network of Gender Studies of Northern Mexico (8 and 9 September 2020).
Courses and Training
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Corso di alta formazione in giustizia costituzionale e tutela giurisdizionale dei diritti, virtual modality – University of Pisa (January 11 to 22, 2021).
Interviews, Media Appearances and Social Networks
Transmission via Facebook: Comments on the movie Souvenir [Dir. Armond Cohen, Mexico, 2019] at @Cinema BCS (March 6, 2021). BCS Film Community.
Transmission via Facebook: “Analysis of LGBTTIQ+ Cinema: The Enigma Code” in Discussion Panels “Analysis of behavior through cinema”. (September 29, 2020). Motivate Coahuila.
Areas of interest
Rights of the LGBTIQ+ population, rights of groups in situations of vulnerability, comparative constitutional law, rights of indigenous peoples, women's rights, human rights, right to equality and non-discrimination, sexual and reproductive rights.
Languages
English, native language.
Spanish, advanced.
