CARLOS RÍOS ESPINOSA
CURRICULUM VITAE
RESUMÉ
Name:
Carlos Rios Espinosa
Date of Birth:
April 29, 1965
Working languages:
English, French, Spanish
Current position/function: Counselor of Mexico City Human Rights Commission
and Human Rights Expert in Criminal Law
Main professional activities:
I have coordinated the drafting committees for the adoption of Criminal Procedure
Codes in several Mexican States. I draft and implement human rights training
programs for NGOs and law enforcement agents. I work as an advisor for Mexico
City´s Human Rights Commission in charge of establishing the general guidelines
of the ombudsman and I review the final resolutions issued by that organism on
alleged claims on the violation of human rights.
Since the beginning of my professional career, I have had ties to non-jurisdictional
agencies of human rights on distinct capacities, first as a Supervisor (Visitador) for
the National Commission of Human Rights and thereafter as Advisor of the
Commission of Human Rights of Mexico City (Distrito Federal). Moreover, I have
been a college professor and I have taught courses on human rights in that
capacity.
My academic activities and the tasks that I have carried out at institutions of the
ombudsman have enabled me to gain experience in the research and
documentation of human rights violations. I have participated in drawing up reports,
articles, and recommendations on human rights. I have been trained in knowing
how to draw up information requests and to analyze facts based on international
human rights standards.
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body
concerned:
I have analyzed different draft laws concerning disability that are currently being
discussed in legislative bodies in Mexico, particularly those discussed in the federal
jurisdiction. I have found significant contributions in all of them. However, they
necessarily have to be reviewed in the light of new content which is set forth by the
Convention, above all, the subject of personal assistance for an independent living.
I have carried out tasks of dissemination of the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disability and its Optional Protocol in different academic and social
spaces.
I have actively participated in drawing up the Program for the Attention of the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities approved by the CDHDF in October last year.
Work Experience:
 Consultant for the Program to Strengthen the Rule of Law in Mexico.
PRODERECHO, September 2004 to September 2009.
Activities carried out: Coordination of the drafting of the local criminal procedures
codes in Baja California, Hidalgo, Jalisco, and Oaxaca in order to incorporate an
accusatory procedural model; advisor for the drafting of the local criminal
procedures codes for the States of Chihuahua and Zacatecas; trainer for courses
on the criminal procedural reform; coordination of the working groups for drafting
the of laws of juvenile justice of the states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca,
Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz; elaboration of articles for the dissemination of
the criminal procedural reform; and trainer on the juvenile justice systems.
 Board Member of the Mexico City Human Rights Commission. Designated
by the Mexico City Legislature in December 2008 and ratified in 2006.
 Research Secretary at the Institute of Federal Judiciary. June 2001 to April
2004.
Activities carried out: Coordination of the team of researchers of the Institute;
coordination of publications of the Judicial School; design of permanent training
programs for judges in courts of appeal and judges of the Federal Judiciary;
teaching of courses at the headquarters of the Institute as well as the local
Supreme Courts.
 Director of Public Safety Studies, Justice, and Human Rights of the Rafael
Preciado Hernandez Foundation, A. C., January 1998 to May 2001.
 Head Researcher of the Administration of Justice unit of the General Offices
of Studies on Public Safety, Justice System and Human Rights of the Rafael
Preciado Hernandez Foundation, A. C., October 1997 to December 1997
Activities carried out: Conduct investigations in connection with the main problems
of the system of administration of justice.
 Assistant Inspector of the National Human Rights Commission, February
1996 to September 1997.
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Activities carried out: Preparation of draft bills on human rights issues, specifically
on discrimination that was presented by the Chairman of the National Human
Rights Commission to the head of the Executive Branch; carrying out
investigations on human rights problems in the penitentiary system and the justice
system for children in conflict with the law; preparation of draft recommendations of
the National Human Rights Commission.
 Legal Advisor to the Program “Reintegra” focused on Children’s’ Rights, July
– December 1995.
Activities carried out: Advisor for the litigation of cases before the Board of Minors.
Full Tenured Professor of the Center for Economic Research and Instruction
(CIDE), Iberoamericana University, Mexican Autonomous Institute of Technology
(ITAM), and the Anahuac University.
List of most recent publications in the field
I have written more than 50 articles on human rights issues that were published in
law journals. In the field of disability the most recent ones are:
National Program for the Development of Persons with Disabilities. Relationship
between diagnosis and actions. In “DFensor”, Journal of the Mexico City Human
Rights Commission, September 2009.
We are all incapable. Reflections on Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities. In “DFensor”, Journal of the Mexico City Human Rights
Commission, November 2007.
Educational background
BA in Law. Iberoamericana University. 1986-1989
Masters Degree in Compared Criminal Systems and Social Problems. Barcelona
University, 2000. Magna cum Laude.
BA in Philosophy. La Salle University, 1983-1987. Magna cum Laude.
PHD in Philosophy (Candidate). UNAM.
Complementary courses:
Course on Litigation strategies in the framework of an adversary accusatory
procedure, by the Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas. Santiago de
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Chile, October 2005.
Course on Instruments for the implementation of an oral accusatory system, by the
Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Americas. April 2005, Viña del Mar, Chile.
Master’s program in philosophy by Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexico City,
1990-1992. Complete credits.
Master’s program in philosophy by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(UNAM). México City, 1992-1994. 2004. Complete credits.
Course: The American theater of the XX Century. Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México (UNAM). Summer 1987.
Course: Existentialism in novels, movies, and theater. University of California at
Berkeley, U.S.A. Summer 1987.
Course: The Classic Myths. University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A. Summer
1987.
Course: Theory of social systems. Course taught by Niklas Luhmann at
Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexico City summer 1991.
Seminal on Human Rights.
Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexico City, summer
1994.
Course: I Inter-American Course on Ombudsman and Human Rights. Organized
by the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica, August 5 th
to 10th, 1996.
For further information, please refer to:
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