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Ana Katiria Suárez Castro

WHRD, Criminal Lawyer

Ana Katiria Suárez Castro is a criminal lawyer and woman human rights defender in Mexico. She has worked for more than 20 years in the defence of women and children victims of violence, adopting a gender perspective that addresses the structural problems of the Mexican judicial system. From her legal defence work, she has fought against corruption and the misuse of criminal law, promoting access to justice in benefit of vulnerable groups affected by the asymmetry of power in these spaces.

Human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists in Mexico are subject to intimidation, legal harassment, arbitrary detention, death threats, acts of physical aggression, enforced disappearances and killings as a result of their activities in defence of human rights and the exercise of freedom of expression and journalism.