Renata Avila Pinto

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Renata Avila Pinto

Renata Ávila Pinto (born January 1, 1981 in Guatemala ) is a Guatemalan lawyer and activist who specializes in technology and intellectual property. She is spokeswoman and member of the legal team that defends Julian Assange and WikiLeaks under the leadership of Baltasar Garzón . Since 2018 she has been the managing director of the Intelligent Citizenship Foundation based in Chile and Brazil.

She defended survivors of genocide and other human rights violations in Guatemala and was part of the legal team led by Spanish lawyer Almudena Bernabeu in the Rigoberta Menchú v Efraín Ríos Montt case .

She is a member of the board of Creative Commons , an international organization that advocates an open and free culture of knowledge. She is also a board member of the Movement Democracy in Europe 2025 (DiEM25) , a pan-European initiative of the former Greek finance minister and economist Yanis Varoufakis , which works for the democratization of the European Union.

Career

Renata Ávila Pinto holds a degree in law from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and a master's degree in law from the University of Turin, as well as a degree in international law from The Hague .

She was part of the international team of lawyers who represented the victims of genocide and other crimes against humanity in their extradition proceedings before the Spanish National Court , including prominent indigenous human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú . Together with the lawyer Baltasar Garzón, she also worked as legal advisor for various whistleblowers and journalists.

As a digital rights activist , she has denounced the deterioration in net neutrality , mass surveillance and attacks on freedom of expression on the internet. For five years she was chief advisor for digital rights at the World Wide Web Foundation . Together with founder Tim Berners-Lee , she led the Web We Want campaign , which advocates respect for human rights in the digital age in more than 75 countries, and is currently managing director of the Chilean Intelligent Citizenship Foundation , an organization that promotes the Openness of data and its use for the benefit of society in Latin America.

Ávila is a member of the Creative Commons Board and Board of Trustees of the Courage Foundation, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of DECODE and the Data Activism Project at the University of Amsterdam . She is part of the DiEM25 coordination collective, which is exploring the possibilities of decentralized technologies in Europe.

She has written for media such as eldiario.es , Global Voices , and openDemocracy, as well as for various academic publications and international magazines. She has appeared in the documentaries ForEveryone.Net (2015), Risk (2016) and Hacking Justice (2017).

The book Women, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks: A Conversation , co- authored with Sarah Harrison and Angela Richter , discusses women who have played an active role in WikiLeaks but have not received adequate media coverage.

In 2014 she was one of the participants in the creation of the Brazilian Civil Society Framework Agreement on the Internet in order to implement legislation to protect net neutrality.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ana López Delgado: Guatemala fights against impunity . In: Hemisferio Zero . February 25, 2013 (Spanish, cja.org [PDF] Original title: Guatemala lucha contra la impunidad .).
  2. ↑ It inexplicable que Assange Mantenga la cordura. It is inexplicable that Assange is keeping his sanity. El Pais , May 19, 2017, accessed February 15, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ a b ¿Qué pueden enseñar Guatemala, Portugal y otros países a Estados Unidos sobre la ausencia de neutralidad en internet? What can Guatemala, Portugal and other countries teach the United States about the lack of neutrality on the Internet? BBC Mundo, December 15, 2017, accessed January 8, 2020 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Renata Avila. World Wide Web Foundation , archived from the original on December 24, 2017 ; accessed on January 7, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Diego Perez Damasco: Innovación para fortalecer la democracia, la apuesta de Renata Ávila, nueva directora de Ciudadano. Innovation to strengthen democracy, the commitment of Renata Ávila, the new director of Ciudadano. In: Distintas Latitudes. August 10, 2018, accessed January 8, 2020 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Guatemaltecos en cumbre de Creative Commons. Guatemalans at the forefront of Creative Commons. Universidad Francisco Marroquín , October 10, 2011, accessed January 8, 2020 (Spanish).
  7. ^ Coordinating Collective (CC). DiEM25 , accessed January 8, 2020 .
  8. ^ Renata Avila. eldiario.es , accessed January 8, 2020 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Renata Avila. Global Voices , accessed January 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Renata Avila. openDemocracy , accessed January 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Carolina Pulido: It's time to raise your voice . In: Paula . September 21, 2018 (Spanish, paula.cl [accessed January 7, 2020] Original title: Llegó la hora de sacar la voz .).
  12. ↑ 'Garzón / Assange: El juez y el rebelde' llega al canal Historia. 'Garzón / Assange: The Judge and the Rebel' comes on the History Channel. In: El Periódico de Catalunya . May 28, 2017, Retrieved January 8, 2020 (Spanish).
  13. ^ Sophia Akram: The Women of WikiLeaks: Speaking Truth to Power. In: Fair Observer. July 28, 2018, accessed January 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Bernardo Gutiérrez: Cryptopunks and Latin America: from technological sovereignty to the age of leaks . In: Complutense University of Madrid (ed.): Teknokultura . tape 12 , no. 3 , 2015, ISSN  1549-2230 , p. 549–576 , doi : 10.5209 / rev_TK.2015.v12.n3.49852 ( ucm.es [accessed January 8, 2020] Original title: Criptopunks y América Latina: de la soberanía tecnológica a la era de las filtraciones .).

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SURNAME Ávila Pinto, Renata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ávila, Renata
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guatemalan lawyer, international digital rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala