{"id":23243,"date":"2025-01-22T12:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/?post_type=equipo&#038;p=23243"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:52:23","slug":"belen-aguinaga","status":"publish","type":"equipo","link":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/equipo\/belen-aguinaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Bel\u00e9n Aguinaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bel\u00e9n, an Ecuadorian attorney, joined DPLF in January 2025 as the Program Officer for <a href=\"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/corruption-and-human-rights\/\">Corruption and Human Rights<\/a>. In this capacity, she leads initiatives that bridge human rights advocacy with anti-corruption efforts, promoting structural reforms, active engagement of victims and civil society, and the strengthening of human rights in contexts of systemic corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining DPLF, Bel\u00e9n served as a Specialist in the Rapporteurship of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, a Fellow in the Litigation and International Advocacy department at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center (RFKHR), and a Research Assistant to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. She has also worked as an Advisor at the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, Director of the Truth and Human Rights Commission at the Ecuadorian Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, and an Associate at the law firm Rosero &amp; Alb\u00e1n. Through these roles, she has gained extensive experience in national criminal and constitutional law as well as international human rights law.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her professional work, Bel\u00e9n is an adjunct professor at the Law School at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), where she has taught courses such as Crimes Against Human Rights, International Criminal Law, Constitutional Procedure, and Public Interest Law Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Bel\u00e9n holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (<em>magna cum laude<\/em>) and a master\u2019s degree in Litigation and International Arbitration, both from USFQ in Ecuador. She also earned an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University (NYU) School of Law, where she was a recipient of the Dean\u2019s Graduate Award and a Fulbright Foreign Student scholarship. Upon graduation, she received the \u201cInternational Human Rights Award\u201d and the \u201cPublic Interest Prize for LL.M.\u201d. Bel\u00e9n is admitted to practice law in Ecuador and the State of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23277,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-23243","equipo","type-equipo","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cargo":"Program Officer","twitter":"","linkedin":"","web":"","e-mail":"baguinaga@dplf.org","\u00bfmostrar_seccion_de_articulos":"No","posts_a_mostrar":[22787],"url_de_la_pagina_del_autor":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/equipo\/23243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/equipo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/equipo"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/equipo\/23243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23244,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/equipo\/23243\/revisions\/23244"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dplf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}