Jorge Calderón
Jorge Calderón Gamboa currently works as a Secretary (Senior Judicial Clerk) at the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice. He is also a Visiting Professor at the UN-Mandated University for Peace.
He was a Senior Coordinating Attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica, where he worked for twelve years (2007-2019), and was in charge of several of the Court´s leading cases regarding vulnerable groups, indigenous peoples, the environment, and ESCER jurisprudence (DESCA). He was a Visiting Lawyer (Seconded Jurist) at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and Deputy Visitor at the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City (Ombudsperson).
In 2014, he was appointed by México as an Independent Expert and commentator on the “International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in
Conflict, ” in London, England; in 2018, he acted as an Independent Expert at theEighth Interactive Dialogue of the UN General Assembly on Harmony with Nature (UN-HwN), a program with which he has since been collaborating as an Independent Expert; in 2020, he was a panelist in the “Human Rights for the Planet” High Level International Conference at the European Council and European Court of Human Rights; and in 2021, he was judge and co-author of the case for the Moot Court Competition “El Camino a la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación in México,” on the Rights of Nature and Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights.
He has also been Professor of Human Rights at different universities and institutes in the USA, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. He has various publications on Environmental protection and the Rights of Nature, DESCA, Indigenous Rights, Comprehensive Reparations, and the InterAmerican HR System, among other topics.
Jorge Calderón is author of the “Declaration of Principles for the Conscious Evolution of Mother Earth” (DPCEME), a document that proposes 21 principles for the path of humanity toward Conscious Evolution, recognizing a shift from an anthropocentric model to a new paradigm that includes all beings and the possibility of consciously guiding the Evolution of Mother Earth.
He obtained his law degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City, and an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies at American University, Washington College of Law (AU-WCL), were he also worked at the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He has also undertaken specialized studies in international criminal law at Leiden University at the Hague and on Environmental Protection at the Center of Constitutional Studies in México (CEC).
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES FOR THE CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION OF MOTHER EARTH
Especialidades:International Human Rights.
Integral Reparation
Remedies in International Law
Indigenous Peoples' Rights
International Criminal Law