María López Belloso

In this Basque name, the first surname is López and the second is Belloso.
María López Belloso
Born
María López Belloso

1979
Santurtzi (Basque Country)
Spain
NationalitySpanish
Alma materUniversity of Deusto (BA, MA, PhD)
University of the Basque Country (PG)
Occupation(s)Lawyer, jurist, human rights activist and writer
Employer(s)University of the Basque Country
University of Deusto

María López Belloso (Santurtzi, 1979)[1] is a Basque lawyer, jurist, human rights activist and writer.[2]

She specializes in human rights, international humanitarian law and international law. She is also specialized in Western Sahara region.[3][4] She is also an activist for women's rights and gender equality.[5][6]

Biography and career

María López Belloso was born in Santurtzi (Basque Country) in 1979.[1] She studied a licenciate degree in law at the University of Deusto (1997–2002).[7] She later obtained a master's degree in international humanitarian action (NOHA) at the University of Deusto (2002–2003), and a postgraduate degree in public international law at the University of the Basque Country (2003–2005).[7]

She obtained her doctorate in law and human rights at the University of Deusto in 2017 with the thesis "The processes of truth, justice and reparation for victims of forced disappearance in the Western Sahara conflict", directed by Carlos Martín Beristain and Felipe Gomez Isa.[8] In 2018 she was awarded the Brunet Prize for the best doctoral thesis on human rights, awarded by the Jaime Brunet Foundation.[1][9][10]

She specializes in human rights, international humanitarian law and international law. She is also specialized in Western Sahara region.[3][4]

Between 2005 and 2009 she was a researcher in the field of human rights at the University of the Basque Country and the HEGOA Institute for Development and International Cooperation Studies. She was also a university teacher of Public International Law at the University of the Basque Country until 2012.[citation needed]

In 2018 she was a speaker at the International Congress on Human Rights, together with the computer scientist Borja Sanz Urquijo, with the conference "Hic Sunt draconis: Human Rights and Big data, analysis of an unexplored collaboration", on the effect that big data and artificial intelligence (AI) can have on human rights.[11] For that conference, López and Sanz received the ICHR Award for the best conference on human rights.[12]

She is currently a researcher and university teacher at the University of Deusto.[13] She specializes in the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring to human rights.[14][15][16]

She is currently part of the EU project Gearing Roles (Gender Equality Actions in Research Institutions to transform Gender ROLES), on the equality of men and women in the university environment, equality plans and the situation of women in teaching and research.[17][18]

Publications

Books

  • Guide for incorporating the gender perspective in teaching and research, 2021.
  • Truth, justice and reparation processes for victims of forced disappearance in Western Sahara, 2019.[19][20]
  • Local human development: from theory to practice: the cases of sugar conversion in Holguín (Cuba) and the Sahrawi camps of Tindouf, 2011.[21]

Book chapters

  • "Equality policies in universities", in Gender and politics: new lines of analysis in the face of the fourth feminist wave, 2022.
  • "Feminism and decentralized cooperation: the experience of the National Union of Sahrawi Women and the Basque Support Network for the UNMS", in Sahrawi Women: Three Tuizas for the memory of the resistance, 2016.
  • "Right to active and passive suffrage in elections in the European Parliament", in The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and its reflection in the Spanish legal system, 2014.
  • "Feminism and decentralized cooperation: experience of the National Union of Sahrawi Women and the Basque Support Network for the UNMS", in Cooperation and local human development: challenges from gender equality and social participation, 2011.

Academic articles

  • "The contribution of data to feminist transformation of women’s rights to health", Feminismo/s, 2023.
  • "Navigating the pandemic: Gendered perspectives on vulnerability, resilience and institutional change", Papers: revista de sociología, 2023.
  • "Identidad, memorias y nuevas tecnologías", Civitas Europa: revista jurídica sobre la evolución de la nación y del estado en Europa, 2022.
  • "The Western Sahara Conflict: impact on Sahrawi people´s human rights: intended solidarity or breach of international responsibility", Spanish yearbook of international law, 2022.
  • "New technologies for the promotion and defense of human rights", Revista española de derecho internacional, 2021.
  • "The role of European institutions in the defense of human rights in the Western Sahara", Estudios de Deusto: revista de Derecho Público, 2016.
  • "Migration and vulnerability: Challenges, implications and difficulties faced by the sahrawi migrant population", The Age of Human Rights Journal, 2016.
  • "Vicarious violence: the difficulties of detecting one of the cruelest forms of mistreatment of women", The Conversation, 2023.
  • "Trabajo social e inteligencia artificial: ¿amenaza u oportunidad?", The Conversation, 2023.
  • "En el conflicto con España, Argelia tiene el derecho internacional de su parte", Público, 2022.
  • "Claves para entender la decisión de España sobre el Sáhara: ¿qué y quién está detrás?", Ethics, 2022.

References

  1. ^ a b c "La investigadora María López Belloso obtiene el II Premio Jaime Brunet Tesis Doctorales de la Universidad Pública de Navarra". www.unavarra.es. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  2. ^ San Sebastián, Marta (2022-03-28). "María López Belloso: "Youth have been greatly punished by public opinion in the pandemic"". Diario de Noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  3. ^ a b "María López Belloso: "The UN must take its role seriously and must achieve peace in that region"". EITB (in Basque). 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  4. ^ a b Conversation, The (2020-10-16). "María López Belloso: "Something is moving in the Sahara: the strategy of the Polisario Front to unblock the conflict"". cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  5. ^ Choperena, Ainhoa Izaguirre; Gutiérrez, Lorea Romero; Belloso, María López (2023-11-23). "Vicarious violence: the difficulties of detecting one of the cruelest forms of mistreatment of women". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  6. ^ "Dr María López Belloso | IASH". www.iash.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  7. ^ a b Belloso, María López. "Personal Website of María López Belloso". Personal Website of María López Belloso. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  8. ^ López Belloso, María (2017). Los procesos de verdad, justicia y reparación a las víctimas de desaparición forzada en el conflicto del Sahara Occidental (http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text thesis) (in Spanish). Universidad de Deusto. {{cite thesis}}: External link in |degree= (help)
  9. ^ 20minutos (2018-05-10). "Las ganadoras de los Premios Jaime Brunet de Tesis Doctorales y Universitario recogen sus galardones en la UPNA". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Navarrainformacion (2018-04-26). "María López Belloso obtiene el II Premio Jaime Brunet Tesis Doctorales de la UPNA". NAVARRA INFORMACIÓN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  11. ^ International Congress on Human Rights, ICHR. "Conferences and presentations. ICHR 2018" (PDF).
  12. ^ International Congress on Human Rights, ICHR. "ICHR Award for the Best Conference on Human Rights" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  13. ^ University of Deusto, Universidad de Deusto. "Researcher and Academic Staff".
  14. ^ "Los riesgos de la IA y su realismo para los famosos: desnudos y robo de voz". www.telecinco.es. 19 September 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  15. ^ Correo, El (2024-02-20). ""Tecnología y Derechos Humanos"". agenda.elcorreo.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  16. ^ "La Brújula de Euskadi 19/09/2023 | Onda Cero Radio". www.ondacero.es (in Spanish). 2023-09-19. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  17. ^ "la transversalización de la perspectiva de género en lasasignaturas de Derecho Internacional Público. La experiencia de laUniversidad de Deusto y del proyecto Gearing Roles | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  18. ^ "Gender Equality Actions in Research Institutions to traNsform Gender ROLES | GEARING ROLES Project | Fact Sheet | H2020". CORDIS | European Commission (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  19. ^ Procesos de verdad, justicia y reparación a las víctimas de desaparición forzada en el Sahara OccidentalLópez Belloso, María (in Spanish).
  20. ^ "Procesos de verdad, justicia y reparación a las víctimas de desaparición forzada en el Sahara OccidentalUniv Públic Navarra/Nafarroako Unib Publ - Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch". editorial.tirant.com. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  21. ^ "Hegoa::Publicaciones::Desarrollo humano local : De la teoría a la práctica : Los casos de la reconversión azucarera en Holguín (Cuba) y de los campamentos saharauis de Tinduf". publicaciones.hegoa.ehu.eus. Retrieved 2024-02-24.