Committee of Experts

The Committee of Experts is the technical part of the MESECVI, responsible for the analysis and evalaution of the implementation of the Convention.

It is composed of independent Experts that are appointed by each of the States Party and serve the MESECVI in a personal capacity.

The responsibilities of the Committee of Experts include:

  • Preparing and circulating the questionnaire on the implementation of the Belém do Pará Convention
  • Preparing and circulating the questionnaire on the implementation of the Belém do Pará Convention.
  • Producing the national and hemispheric reports.
  • Identifying and circulating the indicators to measure the implementation of the Belém do Pará Convention.
  • Producing the follow-up report.

In the evaluation of the national reports and the formulation of recommendations, the Committee organizes itself into working groups.

All of the Experts have access to the State responses to the questionnaires, although no Expert participates in the evaluation of her own State Party.

Committee of Experts of the MESECVI

Galería de Banderas
Antigua and Barbuda
Appointment pending
Argentina
Susana Chiarotti
Bahamas
Elaine Sands
Barbados
Cecilia Babb
Belice
Appointment pending
Bolivia
Lourdes Montero Justiniano
Brazil
Leila Linhares Barsted
Chile
Mónica Maureira
Colombia
Adriana Benjumea
Costa Rica
Beatriz Schulthess Fischer
Dominica
Sylvanie Burton
Ecuador
Gloria Camacho - President of the Committee of Experts
El Salvador
Appointment pending
Grenada
Appointment pending
Guatemala
Hilda Morales Trujillo
Guyana
Appointment pending
Haiti
Mona Jean
Honduras
Appointment pending
Jamaica
Barbara Bailey
Mexico
Teresa Incháustegui – Vice-President of the Committee of Experts
Nicaragua
Appointment pending
Panama
Appointment pending
Paraguay
María Angélica Cano Radil
Peru
Ana María Mendieta Trefogli
Dominican Replublic
Yildalina Tatem Brache
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Hasani J. McDonald
Saint Lucía
Marcia Symphorien
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Miriam Roache
Suriname
Rinette Djokarto
Trinidad and Tobago
Sherna Alexander – Vice-President of the Committee of Experts
Uruguay
Appointment pending
Venezuela
Appointment pending