Argentina | Former Director, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program, Inter-American Dialogue
Former Secretary of Human Rights of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Santiago A. Canton is the former director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue and an international visiting scholar at American University, Washington College of Law.
From 2016 to 2019, he was the secretary of Human Rights of the province of Buenos Aires. From 2012 to 2015, he was the executive director of RFK Partners for Human Rights at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in Washington, DC. From 2010 to 2015, Canton was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School. From 2001 to 2012, he was the executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 1998, he was elected as the first Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression in the Inter-American System. Previously, he was the director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Democratic Institute and an advisor to former President Carter during the elections in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic in 1990.
In 2005, Canton was awarded the Inter-American Press Association´s Chapultepec Grand Prize for his contributions to the promotion, development, strengthening, and defense of the principles of freedom of expression. His writings and interviews have been featured in multiple news outlets, including CNN, CBS, El Mundo, El País, Miami Herald, Washington Post, New York Times, The Guardian, and newspapers throughout Latin America.
He holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master’s degree in International Law from the Washington College of Law of American University.
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Santiago Canton, director del programa de estado de derecho del Dialogo Interamericano habló con Aló Buenas Noches el 19 de Septiembre. Dio sus comentarios sobre el Fact Finding Mission de Derechos Humanos Naciones Unidas en Venezuela y el futuro de su mandato.
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Santiago Canton, director del programa del Estado de derecho, habló con el pódcast, El Washington Post, sobre el cambio de política de los Estados Unidos frentes a Venezuela y Cuba.
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Santiago Canton conversó con CNN sobre el anuncio de la procuraduría general de la nación de Colombia en el que se abrieron investigaciones sobre el alcalde de Medellín y otros funcionarios públicos.
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