Belinda Guevara Casaya is Public Defender Supervisor and National Coordinator of Criminal Execution Law in the Public Defender’s Office of Nicaragua. She is Bachelor of Laws from the Central American University (Universidad Centroamericana – UCA), 1992, and was incorporated as a lawyer and public notary in the Supreme Court of Justice, 1993. She holds a diploma in “Transversalizacion de la Perspectiva de Género en el quehacer del personal de la Defensoría Publica”, 2019; and a diploma in “Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afro descendientes”, 2014. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma awarded by the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile (Universidad de Chile) in “La Responsabilidad Internacional de los Estados y las Reparaciones ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos”, 2011. She is Postgraduate in Sensitization and Specialization on Gender Violence, Intrafamiliar, Sexual and Trafficking, 2013; Postgraduate in Orality Techniques in Criminal Matters, 2012; Postgraduate in the New Penal Code of the Republic of Nicaragua, 2008; and Postgraduate in Administrative Litigation, 2001.
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Clarisa Indiana Ibarra Rivera is the National Director of the Public Defender’s Office of Nicaragua. She is Master Degree in Social Anthropology and Human Rights from the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense), 2007. She is also Master Degree in Law and Human Development from the King Juan Carlos University (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos – Spain), 2017. She is Bachelor of Laws from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua), 1992, and was incorporated as a lawyer and public notary in the Supreme Court of Justice, 1993. She was appointed Sole Judge of the Puerto Cabezas District, with jurisdiction throughout the North Atlantic Autonomous Region, 1995, and Appointed as Magistrate President of the Court of Appeals RAAN, 1999.
Sheyla Calero Castro is Public Defender in the Public Defender’s Office of Nicaragua.