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Verónica Cadavid González

Verónica Cadavid González (she/hers/ella) is a Colombian human rights attorney. At the Advocates, Verónica's work concentrates on legal advocacy and legal empowerment on human rights mechanisms at the United Nations, regional human rights systems, and local advocacy, in collaboration with individuals with lived experience.

Verónica’s expertise centers on economic, social, cultural rights, and human rights-based approaches to rurality, economic inequality, poverty, and gender. Verónica has worked in nonprofit, academic, governmental, and private sector roles, including the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Veronica is an Attorney from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia) and a Master of Human Rights from the University of Minnesota.

Academic Publications

• Cadavid-Gonzalez, V & Allsopp, J. "Sewing Migrant Journeys in a Bullet-proof vest: The Museum as a Site of Memory and Mutual Learning in Medellín, Colombia." In North & Chase (Editor) Migration and Development. Critical Perspectives in a Moving World, Bloomsbury.
• Nuernberger, K, Henry M, Seidel, T, Jones, J, Lyons, A, and Cadavid-González, V (2021). "On Water, Equity, and Justice." Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 19.
• Garcia Jaramillo, S. C., Garcia Cano, D. M., & Cadavid Gonzalez, V. (2019). "Words on Returning: Narratives on Displacement and Returning in Indigenous Communities in Colombia." Museum International, 71(3-4), 130-141.
• Sánchez-Escobar, C., & Cadavid González, V. (2021). "La movilidad como elemento común para la construcción de territorio. El desplazamiento forzado y la migración en Colombia" [Mobility as a Common Element for Territory Building: The Case of Forced Displaced People and Migrants in Colombia]. Peláez Grisales, H (Ed), Sujetos de especial protección. 76-101. Medellín, Colombia.
• Molina-Saldarriaga, C. A., Restrepo-Velásquez, D., Cadavid-González, V., & Orozco-Castañeda, S. (2020). "Tribunales simulados como estrategia para la enseñanza clínica del derecho: experiencia del Grupo de Litigio Estratégico de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana." [Moot Courts Competitions as Strategy of Legal Education. The Experience of Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Legal Clinic]. P. A. Cataño-Gómez (Ed.), Enseñanza clínica del derecho. Algunas experiencias universitarias en el Valle de Aburrá , 63-103. Medellín, Colombia: Sello Editorial Universidad de Medellín.
• Sánchez-Escobar, C., & Cadavid González, V. (2019). "Generar una cultura migratoria: el reto de la Clínica Jurídica de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana" [Implementing a migratory culture. the challenge of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Legal Clinic] Revista Indisciplinas, 5(10), 49-67.

News

• Standing in Solidarity with Nicaragua
  April 19, 2024