Pablo Ceriani Cernadas
Pablo Ceriani Cernadas holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, a Master’s degree in International Migration and Migration Law from the European University of Madrid, and a PhD in Human Rights from the University of Valencia.
He is one of the Independent Experts of the UN of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families (CMW, (2022-2025), a mandate he has also hold between 2014 and 2017, being its Vice-Chairperson in 2016-2017 and 2024-2025). As Member of the CMW, he led the joint initiative with the Committee on the Rights of the Child for the elaboration and adoption of the CRC-CMW General Comments on the Rights of Children in the Context of Migration (2017). Currently, he co-leads the CMW initiative along the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), directed to the development a Joint General Comment on Public Policies for preventing and eradication xenophobia and its impact on the rights of migrants.
He is the Director of the Specialization on Migration, Asylum and Human Rights (Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina -UNLa), and the Coordinator of the Migration at Asylum Program at the Institute for Justice & Human Rights (UNLa). He is Professor on Migration & Human Rights at the following courses: Master on Human Rights (UNLa), Law School (University of Buenos Aires, UBA), Diplomate on Migration and Refugees (UBA), Master Program in Human Rights and Democratization (National University of San Martin, Argentina), Master on Human Rights & Vulnerable Groups at the University Simón Bolivar (Bolivia/Ecuador). Invited Professor at several Universities from The Americas and Europe.
During the last two decades, he has served as a consultant for UNICEF offices in Latin America and Spain on the rights of children in the context of migration. Likewise, he has been a consultant to the South America and Tunisian offices of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), several offices of the International Labor Organization (ILO), and the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) offices in Argentina, on initiatives related to migration policies & human rights, migrant workers & labour migration, and women and adolescents’ migrants respectively.
He is also a member of the IOM's Migration Policy Practice Editorial Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Board of the MIDEQ South-South Migration initiative (Migration for Development and Equality), coordinated by the University of Coventry. He is the author and/or editor of numerous publications on migration policies and human rights. He has served as a tutor in online Courses of the Migration Unit at the Interamerican Development Bank. Former Coordinator of the Legal Clinic for Immigrants and Refugees Rights (University of Buenos Aires, 2002-2005), and lawyer of the Program on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, including migrants’ rights, at the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (1999-2006).