Macarena Saez

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Macarena Sáez (Bluesky – LinkedIn) is the executive director of the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Previously, she was a full-time faculty member and the Director of the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC.

An internationally recognized expert in gender, sexuality, family law, and human rights, Macarena Sáez appears regularly as a speaker and guest lecturer in academic and other professional fora around the world and authored numerous articles, book chapters, and edited books in the areas of women’s human rights and family law.

Macarena is a graduate of the University of Chile Law School and Yale Law School.

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In this picture taken on March 5, 2025, Afghan niqab-clad women walk along a street on the outskirts of Kabul. Since the Taliban came back to power in Kabul in August 2021, they have imposed broad restrictions on women based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Women have been squeezed out of public life in what the United Nations has labelled "gender apartheid." (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Gender Apartheid Should Be an International Crime

Jul. 14, 2025 Heather Barr, Macarena Saez and 1 more