Viviana Osorio Perez

Viviana is a campaigner, lawyer, and researcher in the field of economic, social, and cultural rights. She has focused her work on care economies, on women’s land and labour rights, and most recently on religious freedom. Viviana has focused on promoting international and multi-sectoral solidarity to foster the adoption and implementation of human rights standards and the participation and agency of communities affected by human rights violations in global debates. She has also led global campaigns and strategic litigation to influence treaty bodies and public policies and legal reform in several countries.

Previously, as the Director of the Equality and Inclusion Department at the Solidarity Center, Viviana focused on promoting the ratification and implementation of Convention 190 on gender-based violence at work, advancing intersectionality in labour law and practice, expanding women's agency, and addressing deepened precariousness in value chains.

Before the Solidarity Center, Viviana worked as a program coordinator on women’s economic, social and cultural rights at ESCR-Net, a global network connecting social movements and human rights organisations in 78 countries. She facilitated shared analysis and mutual learning and coordinated advocacy and campaigning in collective work aimed at bolstering grassroots women’s leadership, advancing land rights, and strengthening human rights standards‚ adoption, and implementation. She worked to elevate community-based visions for economic justice and promote intersectionality in practice.

Viviana has also worked as a regional advocacy advisor for Latin America at CARE, where she co-led the formation of a regional multi-stakeholder platform to advance domestic workers’ rights and support their movements in the region and as a coordinator of the Women and Work Program at Escuela Nacional Sindical (ENS) in Colombia, where she developed community-led research projects and achieved transformative legal shifts in the recognition and fulfilment of domestic workers’ rights.

Viviana holds an LLB from the University of Antioquia (UdeA) in Medellin, Colombia and an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science.