ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳

Keina is an international human rights lawyer. Keina is currently a legal adviser at the Centre for Reproductive Rights in the European team. Prior to this Keina was a practising barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and a research officer at the Centre for Women Peace and Security on the AHRC and ERC projects.

As a barrister, Keina specialised in international human rights law, media law, public law, inquiries and inquests. Keina acted in a groundbreaking cases before international bodies on women´s rights, environmental rights and LGBTI rights. Keina has acted in counsel in cases before the CEDAW Committee, (Rosana Flamer Caldera v Sri Lanka 2022), European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights and in high profile domestic public law challenges.

Keina holds a PhD in international law from the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, and has published numerous articles in journals including the European Human Rights Law Review, International Affairs (shortlisted for early career prize 2021), and Human Rights Quarterly. Keina has taught in a number of universities including the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (2015), City University (2018), SOAS (2020), the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (Ghana) (2017) on international human rights law. Keina has a forthcoming book with Dr Sarah Smith, Feminist Conversations on Peace, BUP, 2022.

Selected Publications:

• The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: A Colombian Perspective, International Affairs, 2021, Vol 97, pages 17-34, with Lina Cespedes
• The CEDAW Committee: a global leader in tackling violence against women and girls, European Human Rights Law Review (2020) (4), 347-358, with Christine Chinkin
• The Protection of the Environment: A Gendered Analysis, Goettingen Journal of International Law, 10 (2020) 1, 283-305.
• The Trends and Challenges of Climate Change Litigation and Human Rights, EHRLR, Issue 2 (2020) 161-173, with Joana Setzer
• Human Trafficking as a Gendered Phenomenon: CEDAW in perspective, Journal of Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Law, Vol32, No 1, (2018) pp. 28-49, with Gema Fernandez Rodriguez de Lievana
• The domestic prosecution of gender crimes in Argentina, Human Rights Quarterly 39 (2017) 681–708, with Viviana Waisman and Paloma Soria
• Privacy Injunctions in an Internet Age: PJS v News Group NewspapersLtd, European Human Rights Law Review (August 2016)
• Towards Intersectionality in the ECHR: the case of B.S. v Spain. Feminist Legal Studies, (2013) 21: 195-204.
• Co-author: Women’s Human Rights and Climate Change: state obligations and standards, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law – Policy Briefing Paper No 43 (2020)
• Centre for WPS, 40 Years of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2020), Christine Chinkin and Keina Yoshida, Report

In Spanish

• Great Eggspectations: La tecnología reproductiva y los nuevos retos para la autonomía de las mujeres (U. Nacional de Colombia, 2010). [co-author with Monica Roa]

Select Blog Pieces

• ‘Protecting Journalists: A Gender Perspective’ (Doughty Street International Media Defence Blog 30 March 2017)
• ‘Abortion rights on trial: a step in the right direction for NI’ (LIARC blog, 6 June 2017) with Mary Rachel McCabe
• ‘Did the Supreme Court pass the Bechdel Test’ (The Justice Gap, 11 November 2016)
• ‘Velásquez Paiz et al v Guatemala: Gender Stereotypes and Lack of Justice – Part I’ (OxHRH Blog, August 2016) [with Lucia Mazzuca]
• ‘Velásquez Paiz et al v Guatemala: Femicide in Guatemala – Part II’ (OxHRH Blog, 12 August 2016) [with Lucia Mazzuca]
• Over 15 blog posts for intlawgrrls on law and film (2012-2013)