Rubio Backs Rosa María Payá’s Nomination as IACHR Commissioner

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on May 29 expressed his support for Rosa María Payá Acevedo’s candidacy for commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the main body of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Payá, a Cuban activist and daughter of Oswaldo Payá, a Cuban leader of the Christian Liberation Movement who died in 2012, was nominated by Rubio in March to be the new head of the IACHR.