Biography

Ana Miguel Regedor has an academic background in law and human rights. She is a lawyer trained in asylum, migration, and nationality litigation; handling human rights complaints; peace operations and humanitarian action. She has worked with the International Organization for Migration (Portugal) - as legal advisor of a project promoting migrants' regularization; United Nations Development Program (Cape Verde) - in close relation with the National Human Rights Institution and as a consultant in the field of governance, public administration and justice; and as a project manager implementing European Union policy dialogues (with Palestine and Canada). Engaging with civil society, she collaborated with NGOs in Greece - European Lawyers in Lesvos; in Germany - as a founder and legal advisor to Aegis Heritage Institute; in Peru - Comunidad Shipibo de Cantagallo; and in Portugal, namely Amnesty International and the Portuguese Association for Victim Support as a trained victim support technician. Volunteering experiences include visiting detainees in high security prison in Coimbra. Where she co-organized a seminar concerning children, youngsters and adults in detention, a book reading in solidarity with activists detained in Angola, a variety show for the benefit of the beneficiaries of elderly inhabitants of Alta the Coimbra, beneficiaries of the project 'Velhos Amigos - ATLAS People Like Us', and music events. She is currently a student of the doctoral program Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, her research focuses on the experiences of migrants from the global South in Portugal.