H.E. Ms. Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
Vice Minister of Justice, Argentina
Ms. Rodriguez is a lawyer and currently the Vice-Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Coordinator of the Federal Council for the Fight against the Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons and for the Protection and Assistance to Victims in Argentina and ad honorem Executive Director of the National Corp of Lawyers for Victims of Gender Violence. Also she leads a joint project with UNDP “Promoting SDG through Access to Justice for people in vulnerable conditions”
From 2013 to 2015 she was in charge of the Office of Human Rights, Public Prosecutor's Office of the CABA, and from 2007 to 2013, she was in charge of the Office of Access to Justice.
Ms. Rodriguez has worked on numerous investigations on the subject of Access to Justice, and Persons with Disabilities and Gender, highlighting the coordination in the Manual of Intervention of Cases of Trafficking in Persons in Argentina, conducted by United for Justice (Unidos por la Justicia) with the collaboration of the State Department of the United States, as well as with the General Coordination of the Collation in Access to Justice and Human Rights of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the CABA, in conjunction with the Inter-American Court, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, American University, the University of La Plata and CEJIL. Recently, she was elected Coordinator of the Federal Council to Combat Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons and for Protection and Assistance to Victims. Ms. Rodriguez graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and has a Diploma in Human Rights from the American University Washington College of Law.