Human Rights and
International Democratic Solidarity

PROFILE

Inés Pousadela
Inés Pousadela
Vicepresident
She has a Doctorate in Political Science, Universidad de Belgrano in Political Theory and Sociological Theory; Doctorate courses at IHEAL / Université Paris 3 in the Latin American Studies orientation; a Master's Degree in Economic Sociology, IDAES-UNSAM; and she has a degree in Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She is Senior Research Specialist at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation; Researcher at the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM) for Argentina of the Open Government Partnership; and Professor of Comparative Politics and Global Civil Society at the ORT Uruguay University.
Inés Pousadela's publications
Articles | Artículos | Diálogo Latino Cubano
09-09-2026 | Articles
Democratic solidarity can be practised in at least five ways. The first is to name and shame, that is, to publicly highlight repressive practices and those responsible. During the Argentine dictatorship, foreign correspondents could ask about the disappeared at press conferences in a way Argentine journalists could not: expelling or silencing them would have cost the regime dearly in international opinion. By asking anyway, they stood alongside the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and closed off the regime’s usual escape into silence. The Fernández Meijide Prize operates on that same principle.


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