Katherine Romero

Katherine Romero Cristancho attained dual degrees in law and political science from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and went on to earn a master's degree in Human Rights Protection from the University of Alcala de Henares near Madrid, Spain.{{cite web|title=Katherine Romero|url=https://genderjusticejournal.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/katherine-romero/|website=Gender Justice Journal|date=14 May 2012 |publisher=Women's Link Worldwide|accessdate=17 September 2015|location=Bogotá, Colombia}} She later attained the distinction of Specialist in Criminal Law from the Universidad Externado de Colombia.{{cite web|title=Women: builders of peace|url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/bogot/evento/g-nero-y-paz|website=Banco de la República|publisher=Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango|accessdate=17 September 2015|location=Bogota, Colombia|language=Spanish|date=26 November 2014|archive-date=23 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123030442/http://www.banrepcultural.org/bogot/evento/g-nero-y-paz|url-status=dead}}

In 2005, she was hired as a legal intern with Women’s Link Worldwide for the project to challenge the abortion law of Colombia. In 2006, their efforts were acknowledged when the abortion law was liberalized, allowing abortion in the case of rape, in the event that the child would not be viable outside the womb, or in the case that the life of the mother is in jeopardy.{{cite news|title=La despenalización del aborto en Colombia|url=http://www.colombia.com/videochats/archivo/aborto.asp|accessdate=17 September 2015|publisher=Interlatin Corporation|date=29 October 2006|location=Bogotá, Colombia|language=Spanish}} For eight years, Romero worked with Women's Link, being promoted to Senior Attorney in 2010.{{cite web|title=Catherine Romero|url=http://www.hinabuconsultores.com/catherine_romero.html|publisher=Hinabu Consultores|accessdate=17 September 2015|location=Colombia|date=2014|archive-date=6 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306212250/http://hinabuconsultores.com/catherine_romero.html|url-status=dead}} In 2009, she served as visiting attorney for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and in 2011, Romero was directing a technical project to assist with promotion of Ugandan reproductive rights.{{cite web|title=XLIX OAS Policy Roundtable "The Rights of Women: From Law to Practice"|url=http://www.oas.org/en/ser/dia/outreach/CIM/Programa/Panelist_Bios-EN.pdf|website=Organization of American States|publisher=Inter-American Court of Human Rights|accessdate=17 September 2015|location=Washington, DC|date=2012}} Romero's specialty is sexual and reproductive rights and she has directed litigation regionally, nationally and internationally, including cases in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Nicaragua,{{cite news|title=Katherine Romero|url=http://noticias.lainformacion.com/mundo/katherine-romero_8bf8eERC7PRw52AgRpgPC3/|accessdate=17 September 2015|publisher=La Informacion|date=10 March 2010|location=Madrid, Spain|language=Spanish|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091117/http://noticias.lainformacion.com/mundo/katherine-romero_8bf8eERC7PRw52AgRpgPC3/|url-status=dead}} Peru and Uganda. She also speaks throughout the region on issues facing women and the legal implications of school violence,{{cite news|last1=Colprensa|title=Alertan sobre crecimiento de abuso sexual en colegios|url=http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/colombia/noticias/ong-y-autoridades-control-alertan-sobre-crecimiento-abuso-sexual-en-colegios|accessdate=17 September 2015|publisher=El País|date=7 December 2011|location=Cali, Colombia|language=Spanish}} sexual violence and vulnerability of displaced people,{{cite web|title=Intervention of Katherine Romero: English, Spanish (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)|url=http://www.ijdh.org/2011/03/topics/law-justice/intervention-of-katherine-romero-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights-english-spanish/|publisher=Institute for Justice & Democracy In Haiti|accessdate=17 September 2015|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=25 March 2011|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205145839/http://www.ijdh.org/2011/03/topics/law-justice/intervention-of-katherine-romero-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights-english-spanish/|url-status=dead}} sexuality and rights,{{cite web|title=Taller Género, sexualidad y derecho 2013|url=http://dsyr.cide.edu/documents/302584/0/Taller%20G%C3%A9nero%20sexualidad%20derecho%202013.pdf|publisher=Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas|accessdate=17 September 2015|location=Santa Fe, México|language=Spanish|date=September–October 2013}} as well as building peace initiatives. In 2013 she left Women's Link and is now an independent consultant on international human rights law.

• {{cite book|last1=Romero|first1=Katherine |display-authors=etal |title=Implicaciones Éticas, Jurídicas y Médicas de la Sentencia de la Corte Constitucional c-355|date=2007|publisher=Universidad Nacional de Colombia|location=gotá, Colombia|isbn=978-958-9-82205-0|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280446540|language=Spanish}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Romero Cristancho|first1=Katherine|last2=Díaz Amado|first2=Eduardo|last3=Calderón García|first3=Maria Cristina|last4=Prada Salas|first4=Elena|last5=Barreto Hauzeur|first5=Eliane|title=Obstacles and challenges following the partial decriminalisation of abortion in Colombia|journal=Reproductive Health Matters|date=November 2010|volume=18|issue=36|pages=118–126|doi=10.1016/S0968-8080(10)36531-1 |pmid=21111356 |url=http://www.pubfacts.com/detail/21111356/Obstacles-and-challenges-following-the-partial-decriminalisation-of-abortion-in-Colombia}}

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