David Mejia-Canales
Senior Lawyer at Human Rights Law Centre

David Mejia-Canales is a human rights lawyer focusing on defending democratic freedoms like, the right to protest, the right to vote and the right to participate in public affairs.

Before this, David was a policy adviser in the Commonwealth Parliament working on legal system reform and on justice issues impacting First Nations people including ending deaths in custody, raising the age of criminal responsibility, protecting Country defenders and the implementation of the Optional Protocol Against Torture.