Kristina Hjelkrem
LEGAL COUNSEL, LATIN AMERICA
Kristina Hjelkrem serves as legal counsel for Latin America with ADF International. The Latin America team leads advocacy efforts defending the sanctity of life, marriage, family, parental rights, and religious freedom at the Organization of American States and its many bodies, as well as providing support to regional allies across Latin America.
Before joining ADF International, Hjelkrem’s practice focused on international litigation, where she collaborated in cases involving Latin American private and public entities, and worked as an associate in two different law firms in Spain, and served as an in-house counsel in Ecuador.
Hjelkrem earned her law degree from the University of Navarre in 2015, with a certification in Anglo-American Law. She participated in the University´s honours programme and graduated in the top ten of her class. In 2016 she obtained a double Master’s degree in Access to the Legal Profession and Corporate Law, also at the University of Navarre. Hjelkrem is admitted to practise law in Spain and is currently obtaining her law degree at the University of Hemispheres in Ecuador.
11 pastors, ministry leaders with Puerta de la Montaña, plant of U.S.-based ministry Mountain Gateway, convicted on sham charges of money laundering, sentenced to 15 years in prison & over 80 million dollars in fines per person.
ADF International has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Rodrigo Iván Cortés, Mexican civil society leader and former congressman.
Bishop Álvarez now safe at the Vatican after being sentenced to 26 years in prison for preaching on the human rights violations perpetrated by the Nicaraguan government
Foreign Affairs subcommittee today heard testimony on case of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for preaching on the human rights violations perpetrated by the Nicaraguan government.
Foreign Affairs subcommittee to hear testimony on case of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for preaching on the human rights violations perpetrated by the Nicaraguan government.
For denouncing the human rights violations perpetrated by the Nicaraguan government in his sermons, Bishop Rolando Álvarez was sentenced to 26 years in prison for “undermining national integrity”.
Rodrigo Iván Cortés, former Mexican Congressman and civil society leader, was convicted of various forms of “violence” for Tweets relating to transgender issues.
