Andrea Pochak is an

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lawyer. She was elected to serve on the

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(IAHCR) from January 2024 through to the end of 2027 and to be the OAS's Rapporteur on Human Mobility.

Life

Pochak qualified as a lawyer and took a strong interest in human rights. She was the General Director of Human Rights in the Public Prosecutor's Office. In 2022, she was working for the Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina as a "Subsecretary of Protection and International Relations on Human Rights". Argentina proposed that she should be a candidate to be elected to be one of the

(IACHR)'s commissioners. As part of the process, an independent panel led by Claudia Martin of the

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looked at all of the prospective candidates to be one of the four new IACHR members. The panel was concerned that four candidates were withdrawn, however, Pochak was considered to be acceptable as a candidate after they investigated her human rights standards and her "independence, impartiality, and absence of conflicts". In 2024 new IACHR commissioners were elected, including

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and Pochak, to replace long-serving commissioners: the Jamaican

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and the Panamanian

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. The initial President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) was

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. Pochak took over the role of Rapporteur on Human Mobility from a previous commissioner

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. The job is to look at human mobility and report to the OAS.

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