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Name:
Pedernera Reyna, Luis Ernesto
Country of birth:
Uruguay
Languages:
Spanish, French (working), Portuguese (working), English (basic)
Current position/function:
Executive Secretary of the Committee on the Rights of the Child Uruguay
Member of the Coordinating Council of the Latino American and Caribbean Network on the rights of children and adolescents (REDLAMYC)
Head of the Rights of the Child and Adolescence Area at the Institute of Legal and Social Studies of Uruguay (IELSUR)
Consultant on rights of the child issues for civil sector organizations.
Main professional activities
Coordinator in Uruguay of the Organization Against Torture (OMCT) project: “Implementing international standards to protect children deprived of liberty from torture and ill-treatment in Benin, Uruguay and Philippines.”
Coordination, systematisation, writing and presentation of the Alternative Reports on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Uruguay, Committee on the Rights of the Child (2002, 2006, 2013)
2008 - 2011: Member of the National Honorary and Advisory Council on Children and Adolescents, created by the Code on Children and Adolescents
2009: Consultant on the “Study of the Regional Balance on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Latin America and the Caribbean. Impact and challenges on the 20 years since its adoption" of the Latin American and Caribbean network on the Rights of the Child