Julio Torales

Julio Torales, who is from Paraguay, is a Medical Doctor working as Head of the Human Rights Department and as Senior Lecturer/Reader in Neurochemistry and Senior Lecturer/Reader in Human Rights and Mental Health at Asunción National University School of Medicine. He joined Amnesty International's section in Paraguay in 2002, where he served as Chair of the Committee on Human Rights Policy from 2003-2005 and Chair of the Board from 2005-2009. At the international level, he was a member from 2006-2008 of the Amnesty International’s Chairs Forum Steering Committee and a member from 2007-2009 of the Amnesty International’s Identity-based Discrimination Coordinating Team. He was elected to the IEC in August 2009.