Laura Cristina Dib

Director for Venezuela

Laura Cristina Dib, Director for Venezuela at WOLA

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Education

  • LL.M. in International Human Rights Law, University Of Notre Dame Law School.
  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS), Universidad Metropolitana.

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Laura Cristina Dib is the Venezuela Program Director at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), where she works with partners in Venezuela and in the region to advocate for democracy and respect for human rights. As part of the program, she liaisons with congressional staff and U.S. policymakers, as well as diplomats, officials of multilateral organizations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and other key actors, in an effort to provide evidence-based analysis and policy recommendations. Her areas of interest and experience in the field of human rights are transitional justice, democracy and rule of law and migration. 

Prior to joining WOLA, Laura was the Director of the Legal Clinic for Migrants and a member of the Migration Studies Center at University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia. There she worked on the defense of migrants and refugee’s rights through the design of litigation strategies and advocacy efforts. In Venezuela, she worked in Consultores Jurídicos, a well-known law firm with a strong reputation for litigating human rights violation cases on both national and international scales.

Laura is a lawyer and holds a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies from the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. She also has an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

She is the author and co-author of several articles, book chapters and interventions before the Colombian Constitutional Court on migration and human rights, as well as on issues related to transitional justice.

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