Nataly Santana Sanchez

Biography

Nataly Santana Sánchez is a lawyer from the Dominican Republic with an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex and a Master in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Rule of Law from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Nataly has focused her work on gender and the human rights of women. She has worked on strategic litigation both domestically and at the regional level on cases relating to gender electoral quotas, child marriage, gender-sensitive education, abortion rights and statelessness. Nataly has also produced research on the adjudication of cases of violence against women in Santo Domingo, on stigma related to abortion among decision-makers in Central America and the Caribbean and on the domestication of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Essex for her PhD research, Nataly worked for the Ministry of Women of the Dominican Republic, leading the efforts to implement international human rights law of women into State law and policy. As part of that role, she advised on the Bill on Gender-Based Violence Against Women to ensure harmonisation with the Belem do Para Convention, she coordinated States follow-up and implementation of CEDAWs concluding observations and drafted legal opinions for the Constitutional Tribunal on the domestication of ILOs 189 Convention on the Rights of Domestic Workers. As a doctoral researcher, funded by the South and East Network for Social Sciences (SENSS) Doctoral Training Partnership, Nataly is interested in exploring how transitional justice addresses reproductive violence in the aftermath of mass atrocities.

Qualifications

• Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Rule of Law Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2024)

• LLM in International Human Rights Law University of Essex (2022)

• Licenciatura en Derecho (Bachelor of Law) Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (2017)

Thesis