SPARK Social Justice are sponsoring a presentation of the 2025 Romero Lecture in Leeds.
Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez is a Jesuit priest from Mexico and will be presenting this lecture.
After receiving professional legal training, before joining the Society of Jesus, Fr Luis worked as a lawyer at the “Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez” Human Rights Centre in Mexico City from 2019 to 2020. His work exposed him to the plight of thousands of mothers who had lost their children to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions committed by the Mexican military and organised crime.
Now a PhD student at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, Fr Luis investigates these grave human rights violations, which have claimed more than 100,000 victims in Mexico, and the culture of impunity surrounding them. Fr. Luis has extensive experience working in the field of human rights in Latin America.
In his lecture he will use the life of St Oscar Romero to draw out parallels with his own research.
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