Erick Antonio Acuña Pereda

Mr. Acuña obtained his law degree (with honors) in 2010 from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. In 2011, he earned a scholarship from the Human Rights Centre of the University of Chile for the Post Graduate Diploma in Human Rights and Women: Judicial Strategies for Incidence. Mr. Acuña worked for three years at the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Idehpucp), where he developed academic reports, publications, and projects with institutions like Oxford University, the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education and the College of the Americas, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, among others. He also worked as a teacher's assistant in international law courses and the Human Rights Master's Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Law School. During his undergraduate studies, Mr. Acuña participated in the National Human Rights Moot Court Competition (first place team) and the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition (semi-finalist team). In addition, he worked as an intern at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He is currently a researcher for the Peruvian Working Group of the Ibero-American Network of Experts on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.