Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Tenured Professor of Public International Law and Coordinator of the Legal Clinic at the Law Faculty of University of Murcia, Spain. She is a member of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls (WGDAWG). She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute (Florence), an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Law Degree from Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico). Dorothy enjoys 20 years of academic and professional experience in Mexico, Spain, Italy, Canada and the US, including in the Harvard Human Rights Program, State bodies, UN and NGOs, and research in UN, EU and national projects. She has researched and published widely on international human rights law, gender equality, human security, migration and refugee law, rights of persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, socioeconomic justice, business corporations and human rights, and regularly holds consultations with public and civil society stakeholders and speaks at international events and dissemination sources. As former Chair of the UN WGDAWG she visited Afghanistan in May 2023, and addressed the systematic and institutionalized gender discrimination against women and girls.
