Mónica Feria Tinta, LL.M. (with merit) (London), Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law (2000). She is a practising international lawyer who has represented victims before the Inter-American organs of protection of human rights since 1997. She appeared as counsel for the victims in the case of the Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and litigated the Miguel Castro Castro prison case on behalf of 800 victims. She received the Inge Genefke International Award in 2006 and the Gruber Foundation Justice Prize 2007 for her work as a lawyer in the field of human rights.