Elin Martínez
Elin Martínez is a senior researcher in the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where she focuses on the right to education. At Human Rights Watch, Martínez has conducted investigations and national and global advocacy on exclusion and barriers to inclusive primary and secondary education, school-related sexual violence and discrimination against pregnant and parenting students, including in Ecuador, Jordan, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. She previously worked for the Global Partnership for Education’s Secretariat, as well as Save the Children UK, where she led the organization’s global advocacy efforts on the right to education in humanitarian emergencies. Prior to focusing on global education advocacy, she worked at Franciscans International, a faith-based international NGO, alongside grassroots human rights defenders and faith-based advocacy organizations in the Asia Pacific region.
Since 2022, Martinez has been the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Right to Education Initiative, an international human rights nongovernmental organization dedicated entirely to the promotion and defense of the right to education. Martinez is an independent advisor to Education Out Loud, a global civil society fund for advocacy and social accountability in education.
She holds an LL.B. in International, European and Comparative Law from the University of Sheffield, and an LL.M. in International Criminal Justice and Armed Conflict from the University of Nottingham. She speaks English, Spanish and French.
Articles Authored
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January 24, 2019
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December 18, 2018
No Country for Gay Men, Young Girls
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December 7, 2018
Senegalese Students Open Up the Conversation About Sexual Abuses
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October 25, 2018
Is Senegal Ready to Listen to Adolescent Girls?
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December 12, 2017
Girls’ Clothes Never, Ever, Justify Sexual Abuse
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December 4, 2017
Children with Disabilities in South Africa Cannot Wait
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November 22, 2017
Tanzania is Not ‘Doing Well’ on Violence in Schools
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September 25, 2017
South African Girl with Disability Abused on School Bus
Reports Authored
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“Girls Shouldn’t Give Up On Their Studies”
Pregnant Girls’ and Adolescent Mothers’ Struggles to Stay in School in Mozambique
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“Years Don’t Wait for Them”
Increased Inequalities in Children’s Right to Education Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
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“It’s a Constant Fight”
School-Related Sexual Violence and Young Survivors’ Struggle for Justice in Ecuador
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Leave No Girl Behind in Africa
Discrimination in Education against Pregnant Girls and Adolescent Mothers
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The Education Deficit
Failures to Protect and Fulfill the Right to Education through Global Development Agendas
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“Complicit in Exclusion”
South Africa’s Failure to Guarantee an Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities