About Us

Selene Soto Rodríguez is a Senior Legal Advisor at Ríos and a Venezuelan lawyer specializing in human rights and gender, with 17 years of experience.

Before joining Ríos, she worked in international organizations focused on strategic litigation related to sexual and reproductive rights, gender-based violence affecting migrant women and trafficking victims, as well as in humanitarian and transitional justice contexts. She spent over seven years at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), where she held various positions in thematic rapporteurships, including LGBTI persons and women’s rights, monitored several countries in the region, and worked on cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In Venezuela, she worked with COFAVIC, an NGO focused on justice for serious human rights violations. She is the editor and co-author of The Belém do Pará Convention: Commentary on Its History, Developments, and Current Debates, published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Selene graduated from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and holds advanced studies in international law. She is a candidate for the Master's in Constitutional Law at Universidad Externado de Colombia and is currently pursuing a Master's in Women’s Studies at Universidad Central de Venezuela. She is a member of RELEG and a collaborator with the GenEq Institute.