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Press advisoy

February 21, 2002

PRESS CONFERENCE

BY

INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS  

 

            The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an Organization of American States specialized agency, will hold a press conference to discuss implementation of a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning the case of Awas Tingni Indigenous Community of Nicaragua.

 

 

VENUE:         IACHR Library 
                  8^th Floor

Organization of American States

1889 F Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

 

DATE:            Friday, February 22, 2002

 

TIME:            3:30 p.m.

 

Among those participating in this press conference are the Commission's Executive Secretary Santiago Canton, Nicaragua's Ambassador to the OAS Lombardo Martínez, and IACHR delegate Claudio Grossman as well as the IACHR lawyer handling Nicaragua cases, Bertha Santoscoy. 

 

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