Sofía Duyos is a lawyer specializing in Human Rights. She earned her degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), where she studied Criminal Law, Human Rights, and Development Cooperation. Since 2000, she has worked in the Human Rights Office of the Archbishop of Guatemala, conducting research on human rights violations, advocacy, and awareness, including research on violence against women. She has written several articles and coordinated various publications in human rights. During the last five years she has been one of the lawyers litigating the case opened in the Audiencia Nacional Court for genocide against the Mayan people in Guatemala. She has also served as advisor to the Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH), one of the two Guatemalan organizations that served as joint plaintiffs in the case against the former President Rios Montt and his director of intelligence Rodriguez Sanchez.