Situation of Discrimination of Afro-descendents in Labor, Education and Access to Justice in the Americas
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
Labor and Workers' Rights
Petition 478/05 – Victims of anti-immigrant activities and violence in southern Arizona, United States
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: State of the United StatesSeanna Howard; Robert HersheyUniversity of Arizona College of Law
Topics: Rights of Migrants and their FamiliesPetitions and Cases
Case 12.644 – José Medellín Rojas (MC 317/06), Rubén Ramírez Cárdenas (MC 328/06) and Humberto Leal García (MC 349/06)
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: Center for International Human RightsState of the United StatesSandra Babcock
Topics: Petitions and CasesPrecautionary Measures
Women’s access to justice administration systems in the Americas
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: Articulación Regional Feminista de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género: Coordinadora Política de la Mujer de BoliviaCorporación HumanasELAEstudio para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (DEMUS)
Topics: Rights of WomenAccess to Justice, Judicial Guarantees
Situation of child trafficking and violence against women in Haiti (border zone)
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: State of HaitiRegroupement des Citoyens pour la Protection des Droits Humains (RECIPRODH)
Topics: Rights of WomenRights of Children
Prevention of torture in Latin America
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: Asociación para la Prevención de la Tortura (APT)
Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of LibertyTorture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
Human Rights Situation in Venezuela
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: State of Venezuela
Topics: General Human Rights Situation
Case 12.459 – Lysias Fleury, Haiti
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: State of HaitiLysias Fleury; International Human Rights Law Clinic, American University
Topics: Petitions and CasesHuman Rights Defenders
Use of lethal force by the police in Jamaica
Friday, March 7, 2008
Participants: State of JamaicaHuman Rights Law Clinic, George Washington University
Topics: Citizen Security
Obstacles in Argentina to compliance with the reports, decisions and recommendations of the bodies for the protection of human rights in the Inter-American system
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)State of Argentina
Topics: Compliance with the Decisions of the Inter-American System
Situation of human rights defenders of the Mapuche People in Chile
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: State of ChileNancy Yáñez; José AylwinObservatorio de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas
Topics: Rights of Indigenous PeoplesHuman Rights Defenders
Indirect restrictions of freedom of expression in Brazil
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Article XIXCenter for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)State of Brazil
Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression
Petition 1345/05 – Professors of Chañaral, Chile
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: State of ChileJuan Pablo Olmedo Bustos
Topics: Petitions and Cases
Human rights situation of captive communities in Bolivia
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Alejandro Chávez Ríos, Consejo de Capitanes de ChuquisacaCenter for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)State of Bolivia
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Case 12.542 – Employees of “Fertilizantes de Centroamérica” (FERTICA, Central American Fertilizers), Costa Rica
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Daniel CamachoState of Costa RicaFUNDEHUCA
Topics: Petitions and Cases
Case 12.405 – Vicente Grijalva Bueno, Ecuador
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Auditoría Democrática AndinaState of EcuadorFrancisco López Bermúdez
Topics: Petitions and Cases
Investigation, trial and punishment of those responsible for serious violations of human rights in the past and the present in Guatemala
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH)State of GuatemalaUnidad de Protección de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (UDEFEGUA)
Topics: Most serious crimes under International Criminal LawTransitional JusticeAccess to Justice, Judicial Guarantees
Protected areas in indigenous territories in Guatemala
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Defensoría Maya QeqchiState of GuatemalaIndian Law Resource Center
Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Human rights consequences of the grave environmental violations caused by mining activity in Honduras
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Alianza Cívica para la DemocraciaState of Honduras
Cases 12.597 – Miguel Camba Campos and others (Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal) and 12.600 – Hugo Quintana Coello and others (Judges of the Supreme Court), Ecuador
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: State of EcuadorRamiro Ávila Santamaría
Topics: Petitions and Cases
Application of the 2004 Migration Law in the Dominican Republic (Private Hearing)
Monday, March 10, 2008
Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)Global Rights - Partmers for JusticeOpen Society Justice Initiative (OSI)University of Berkeley
Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families
Media consolidation and freedom of expression in Mexico
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Asociación Mexicana de Derecho a la InformaciónComisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH)State of Mexico
Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression
Cases “Comuna 13”, 12.596 – Luz Dary Ospina Bastidas, 12.595 – Myriam Eugenia Rúa Figueroa and 12.621 – Teresa Yarce, Mery Naranjo and Socorro Mosquera
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: State of ColombiaGrupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH)
Topics: Rights of WomenPetitions and Cases
Human rights of migrant workers in transit in Mexico
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH)State of MexicoFederación Internacional de Derechos Humanos (FIDH)
Topics: Rights of Migrants and their FamiliesLabor and Workers' Rights
Human Rights Situation in Colombia
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ)State of ColombiaGrupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH)REINICIAR
Topics: General Human Rights Situation
Human rights situation of women in Chiapas, Mexico
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Centro de Derechos de la Mujer de Chiapas, A.C.Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)Colectivo de Derechos de Infancia y Adolescencia - ArgentinaState of Mexico
Topics: Rights of Women
Human rights situation of displaced Afro-Colombians
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES)State of Colombia
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
The Organic Law for Military and Police Justice in Peru
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: State of PeruInstituto de Defensa Legal (IDL)
Topics: Military justice
Murder of Women in El Salvador
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Asociación de Mujeres por la Dignidad y la Vida de El Salvador (Las Dignas)Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)State of El SalvadorLas MélidasOrganización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz (ORMUSA)
Topics: Rights of Women
Follow-up on recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) of PeruState of Peru
Topics: Transitional Justice
Administration of justice in Nicaragua
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH)State of Nicaragua
Topics: Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary
Administration of justice in El Salvador
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: CDH-ESCenter for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)CO-MADRESComisión de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador (CDHES)Comisión de Trabajo en Derechos Humanos Pro Memoria HistóricaComite de Familiares de Victimas de las Violaciones de los Derechos Humanos de El Salvador "Marianella Garcia Villas" (CODEFAM)Comité de Madres y Familiares Cristianos de Presos, Desaparecidos y Asesinados Padre Octavo Ortiz (COMAFAC)Departamento de Derechos Humanos del Sínodo Luterano de El Salvador (DDH-SL)State of El SalvadorLa Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (FESPAD)OTLAProbúsqueda
Right to education of members of Afro-Descendent and Indigenous communities in the Americas
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Cornell University Law SchoolRobert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights University of Virginia Law School
Topics: Rights of Indigenous PeoplesRights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination
Human Rights Situation of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Participants: Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES)State of ColombiaGlobal Rights - Partmers for Justice
Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination