C.IAS Fellow: Adriana Rodríguez

Adriana Rodríguez Caguana has completed a master's degree in human rights and holds a PhD in international law. Her research focuses on legal pluralism, interculturality and language rights. She teaches at the Department for Human Rights (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito) and at Ecuador's first indigenous university, Amawtay Wasi, among others.
She has contributed to an application to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for protective measures for the Kichwa indigenous people due to the alarming human rights situation in the country. She is accompanying the process convened by the Commission for the Waorani to investigate the events following massacres of isolated indigenous peoples.
Together with Christina Korak, she is investigating the role of female academics in the expulsion of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and, in the current collaborative project ‘Remembering_Resistance. Women's Translations of Territorial, Linguistic and Cultural Rights’ (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities, ÖAW), they are examining the importance of peace and abundance of resources for hunter-gatherer communities.

As part of her Fellowship with C.IAS, Adriana Rodríguez Caguana
- held a workshop on June 2 on “Interculturality, Plurilingualism and Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador” together with Anna Pedrolli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy).
- attended and presented “Memoria de las mujeres amazónicas waorani y justicia intercultural: más allá de la reparación libera” at the 3rd Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human Rights from an Inter-American Perspective “Camps, Belonging, and Abolition Democracy” (June 4-7).
- gave a morning lecture titled “Interculturality, Plurilingualism and Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador: Examples from the Constitution and the Case Tagaeri-Taromenane vs. Ecuador” at the Graz International Summer School in Seggau (July 5-18).