Gabriella Citroni

Gabriella Citroni

Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca

Areas of expertise

International Human Rights Law  /  Enforced Disappearances  /  UN Human Rights Mechanisms  /  Transitional Justice  /  Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions  /  Crimes against Humanity  /  Inter-American Human Rights System  /  Right to Truth  /  Prohibition of Torture and Inhumane Treatment  /  Measures of Reparation for Gross Human Rights Violations

Gabriella Citroni is a Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is also the Vice-Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, an International Legal Advisor for the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (FEDEFAM) and a Senior Legal Advisor for TRIAL International.

Her research focuses on subjects related to international human rights law and she cooperates with a number of NGOs, providing legal assistance to victims of serious human rights violations and their relatives in different countries including Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Morocco, Colombia, Peru, Iraq, Honduras and Mexico. She has written a number of articles and books on international human rights law.

In 2016, she was appointed consultant at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to review the Tunisian draft law on the crime of enforced disappearance. In 2015, she was an external consultant for the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights for the drafting of an issue paper on missing persons and victims of enforced disappearance in Europe. Further, she was appointed expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in two cases of enforced disappearance (Comunidad Campesina de Santa Bárbara v Perú, Vereda La Esperanza v Colombia, and Alvarado Espinoza and al. v. Mexico). In 2010, she was an external consultant for the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances for the drafting of a study on best practices on enforced disappearances in domestic criminal legislation.

From 2003 to 2005 she was a member, as Legal Advisor, of the Italian delegation to the UN during the negotiations of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

Taught Courses

Cali, Colombia: wall with photos of disappeared. Master in transitional justice - Course

Enforced Disappearances in International Law

This course examines the existing international legal framework and jurisprudence on the phenomenon of enforced disappearance. While the main focus is international human rights law, references are made, where pertinent, to international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

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Sri Lanka, Mannar. A father looks at the last photo taken of his missing son. LLM - Course

Enforced Disappearances in International Law

This course examines the existing international legal framework and jurisprudence on the phenomenon of enforced disappearance. While the main focus is international human rights law, references are made, where pertinent, to international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

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Publications

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The Right to Political Participation: A Study of the Judgments of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights

2022

Gabriella Citroni, Irene Spigno, Palmina Tanzarella

Routledge

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Electoral rights in Nicaragua The unbearable lightness of non-implementation?

2022

Gabriella Citroni

The Right to Political Participation, Routledge

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Consequences of the Lack of Criminalization of Enforced Disappearance at the Domestic Level: The Italian Experience

October 2021

Gabriella Citroni

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Volume 19, Issue 3

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Faraway, So Close: Victims of Enforced Disappearance in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Rights to Know the Truth, Justice and Reparation

2021

Gabriella Citroni

Droits Fondamentaux, No 19

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