133 Period of Sessions

Inauguration of the 133 Period of Sessions

Monday, October 20, 2008

Topics: Inauguration of Periods of Sessions


Attacks on actors in the justice system in Guatemala

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Guatemala.Fundación Myrna Mack

Topics: Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary.Human Rights Defenders


Impact of public-security policies on human rights in Mexico

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Asistencia Legal por los Derechos Humanos A.C. (Asilegal).Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Francisco de Vitoria (CDHFFV).Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (PRODH).Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (CENCOS).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Mexico.Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos "Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos" (REDTDT)

Topics: Citizen Security


Rights to the use and exploitation of natural resources and prior consultation with respect to the Cucapá indigenous people of Mexico

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Comisión Ciudadana de Derechos Humanos del Noroeste, A.C. (CCDH).Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH).State of Mexico.Pueblo Indígena Cucapá

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples


Complaints regarding the criminalization of human rights defenders in Guerrero, Mexico

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan.Centro Regional de Defensa de Derechos Humanos “José Ma. Morelos y Pavón.State of Mexico.Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF).Red Guerrerense de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos

Topics: Human Rights Defenders


Case 12.626 – Jessica Gonzales, United States

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: State of the United States.Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School

Topics: Rights of Women.Petitions and Cases


Border Wall in Texas, United States

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: State of the United States.University of Texas Working Group on Human Rights and the Border Wall

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Rights of Migrants and their Families


Petition 1186/04 - Opario Lemoth Morris et al. (Buzos Miskitos), Honduras

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Asociación Misquita Hondureña de Buzos Lisiados (AMHBLI).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Consejo de Ancianos Almuk Nani Asla Takanka.State of Honduras.Miskitu Indiang Mairin Asia Takanka (MIMAT-Asociación de Mujeres Miskitas de la Costa Atlántica)

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Petitions and Cases


Case 12.590 – José Miguel Gudiel Álvarez et al. (Diario Militar), Guatemala

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: State of Guatemala.Fundación Myrna Mack

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Protection of human rights defenders in Guatemala

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Guatemala.Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales de Guatemala (ICCPG)

Topics: Human Rights Defenders


Ineffectiveness of labor justice for agricultural workers in Guatemala

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: State of Guatemala.Pastoral de la Tierra Interdiocesana.The Bernard and Audre Rapoport, Center for Human Rights at the University of Texas

Topics: Labor and Workers' Rights


Follow-up to complaints regarding extrajudicial executions/ Actions in response to murders of protected persons in Colombia

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Asociacion para la Promocion Social Alternativa (MINGA).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ).Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP).Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR).Corporación Jurídica Libertad (CJL).Corporación REINICIAR.Corporación Sisma Mujer.State of Colombia.Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos (FCSPP).Grupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH)


Case 12.546 – Juan Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Guatemala

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Participants: Clínica de los Derechos Humanos Internacionales Washington College of Law, American University.Erick Arbenz.State of Guatemala

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Case 11.157 - Gladys Carol Espinoza González, Perú

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Asociación Nacional Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Extraditions of paramilitaries and the rights of victims in Colombia

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Asociacion para la Promocion Social Alternativa (MINGA).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ).Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP).Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR).Corporación REINICIAR.Corporación Sisma Mujer.State of Colombia.Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos (FCSPP).Grupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH)


Rule of law, judicial independence, and democracy in Colombia

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR).Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ).Comisión de Justicia Paz (CIJP).Corporación Jurídica Libertad (CJL).Corporación Sisma Mujer.State of Colombia.Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos (FCSPP).Grupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH).MINGA.REINICIAR

Topics: Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary.Human Rights Defenders


Case 11.227 – Unión Patriótica, Colombia (Testimony and comments)

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ).State of Colombia.REINICIAR

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Discrimination and violence against women as a result of the armed conflict in Colombia

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Casa de la Mujer en Bogotá.Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Corporación Mujeres que Crean.Corporación Sisma Mujer.Corporación Vamos Mujer.State of Colombia.Mesa de Trabajo Mujer y Conflicto Armado.Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres por la Solución Negociada del Conflicto Armado

Topics: Rights of Women


Freedom of expression in Peru

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: State of Peru.Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL)

Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


Human rights situation in Bolivia (on the Commission’s initiative)

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: State of Bolivia

Topics: General Human Rights Situation


Due process and disciplinary actions against judges in Honduras

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Asociación de Jueces por la Democracia (AJD).State of Honduras

Topics: Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary.Human Rights Defenders


Reports of arbitrary detentions and torture in prisons in Honduras

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: CARITAS.Centro de Prevención, Tratamiento y Rehabilitación de Víctimas de Tortura (CPTRT).State of Honduras

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty


Situation of labor justice in El Salvador

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Concertación por un Empleo Digno en la Maquila (CEDM).State of Honduras.Grupo de Monitoreo Independiente de El Salvador (GMIES).Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz (ORMUSA)

Topics: Labor and Workers' Rights


Precautionary measure 629-03 – Justice and Peace Commission, Colombia

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP).State of Colombia

Topics: Precautionary Measures.Human Rights Defenders


Case 12.251 – Village of La Esperanza (Carmen de Viboral), Colombia

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Corporación Jurídica Libertad (CJL).State of Colombia

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Racial discrimination and access to justice of Afro-descendants in Colombia

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: State of Colombia.Observatorio de Discriminación Racial.Rappaport Center for Human Rights and Justice.Universidad de Los Andes

Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination


Discrimination on the base of Gender, Race and Sexual Orientation in the Americas

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Participants: Taller de Comunicación Mujer

Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination.Rights of Persons LGBTI


Case 12.624 – Carlos Baraona Bray, Chile

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Diego Portales.State of Chile

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Situation of persons deprived of liberty in prisons and mental hospitals in Argentina

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: State of Argentina.Foro de VIH Mujeres y Familia.Grupo de Mujeres de la Argentina

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.Rights of Women


The justice system and impunity in Haiti

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: State of Haiti.Groupe d´Action pour la Defense des Droits Humains

Topics: Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary


Case 12.569 – Quilombolas communities of Alcántara, Brazil

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Associação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas do Maranhão .Centro de Cultura Negra do Maranhão.State of Brazil.Federação dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura do Estado do Maranhão.Global Exchange.Justiça Global.Movimento dos Atingidos pela Base Espacial.Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos.Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos

Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination


Case 12.053 – Maya communities of the Toledo District, Belize

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: State of Belize.University of Arizona College of Law

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Petitions and Cases


Case 12.479 – José Airton Honorato et al. (Castelinho), Brasil

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: State of Brazil.Fundaçao Interamericana de Direitos Humanos (FIDDH)

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Case 12.519 – Leopoldo García Lucero, Chile

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: State of Chile.The Redress Trust (REDRESS)

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Barriers to equal access to justice in Latin America

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Centro de Derechos Humanos y Asesoría a Pueblos Indígenas (CEDHAPI).Centro de Estudios de Justicia y Participación (CEJIP).Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF)

Topics: Rights of Women.Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary


Prison conditions of persons deprived of liberty on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH).State of Nicaragua

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty


Freedom of expression and political rights in Nicaragua

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Nicaragua

Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


Case 12.277 – Fazenda Ubá, Brazil

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Brazil.Sociedade Paraense de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Amnesty Law as obstacle to justice in Brazil

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Brazil

Topics: Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary.Transitional Justice


Situation of violence and discrimination against women in Haiti

Monday, October 27, 2008

Participants: Collectif de Notables de Cité Soleil (Fondation CONOCS).State of Haiti

Topics: Rights of Women


Case 12.581 - Jesús Vélez Loor, Panama

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Panama

Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families.Petitions and Cases


Citizen security and violence in Venezuela

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Carlos Ayala Corao.Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Comité de Familiares Victimas de los sucesos de febrero y marzo de 1989 (COFAVIC).State of Venezuela

Topics: Citizen Security


Precautionary Measures and Petition 592/07 - Hul´qumi´num Treaty Group, Canada

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: State of Canada.University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Petitions and Cases.Precautionary Measures


Situation of the Right to Freedom of Expression and Information in Venezuela (Private Hearing)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Asociación Civil Espacio Público.Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


Case 12.361 and Petitions 1368/04, 16/05, 678/06, 1191/06 – In vitro fertilization, Costa Rica

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: State of Costa Rica.Gerardo Trejos

Topics: Rights of Women.Petitions and Cases


Persons with HIV in Central America

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Panamerican Health Organization

Topics: Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights


Violations of economic, social, and cultural rights of indigenous peoples and access to justice in Honduras and Nicaragua

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Asociación Misquita Hondureña de Buzos Lisiados (AMHBLI).Centro de Asistencia Legal a Pueblos Indígenas (CALPI).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Miskitu Indiang Mairin Asia Takanka (MIMAT-Asociación de Mujeres Miskitas de la Costa Atlántica)

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights


Situation of Human Rights Defenders and Institutions and Human Rights Guarantees in Venezuela (Private Hearing)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Asociación Civil Espacio Público.Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Topics: Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees


Principles and regulatory best practices of radio broadcasters

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias (AMARC-ALC)

Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


Risks and vulnerabilities affecting defenders of women’s rights in the Americas

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Center for Reproductive Rights.Comite de America Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM).Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos (MULABI).Human Rights Watch

Topics: Rights of Women.Human Rights Defenders.Rights of Persons LGBTI


Situation of imprisoned union members in Cuba

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Comisión Latinoamericana por los Derechos Humanos y las Libertades de los Trabajadores y los Pueblos (CLADEHLT)

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.Labor and Workers' Rights.Human Rights Defenders


PM 259/02 - Detainees at the Guantánamo Naval Base/ PM 211/08 - Djamel Ameziane, United States

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of the United States

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.Precautionary Measures


Due process problems in the application of policies on immigrant detention and deportation in the United States

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: State of the United States.Transnational Legal Clinic, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Topics: Rule of Law, Independence of the Judiciary.Rights of Migrants and their Families


Situation of children deprived of liberty in Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Associação Nacional dos Centros de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescene (ANCED) Brasil.Colectivo de Derechos de Infancia y Adolescencia - Argentina.Comité de los Derechos del Niño – Uruguay.Coordinadora por los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia (CDIA) Paraguay

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.Rights of Children


Right to private property of indigenous peoples of Panama

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Participants: Cultural Survival.Environmental Defender Law Center.State of Panama.La Alianza para la Conservación y Desarrollo.Native Future

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples


Press Conference at the Conclusion of the 133 Period of Sessions

Friday, October 31, 2008

Topics: Press Conferences


131 Period of Sessions

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 Liberty.Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment


Human Rights violations in prisons in Panama

Friday, March 7, 2008

Participants: Comisión de Justicia y Paz de la Conferencia Episcopal de Panamá; Centro de Iniciativas Democráticas; Universidad de Harvard.State of Panama

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty


Situation of prisons in the Americas

Friday, March 7, 2008

Participants: Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE)

Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty


Use of lethal force by the police in Jamaica

Friday, March 7, 2008

Participants: State of Jamaica.Human Rights Law Clinic, George Washington University

Topics: Citizen Security


Human Rights Situation in Venezuela

Friday, March 7, 2008

Participants: State of Venezuela

Topics: General Human Rights Situation


Situation of child trafficking and violence against women in Haiti (border zone)

Friday, March 7, 2008

Participants: State of Haiti.Regroupement des Citoyens pour la Protection des Droits Humains (RECIPRODH)

Topics: Rights of Women.Rights of Children


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 Bolivia.Corporación Humanas.ELA.Estudio para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (DEMUS)

Topics: Rights of Women.Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees


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 Rights.State of the United States.Sandra Babcock

Topics: Petitions and Cases.Precautionary Measures


Petition 478/05 – Victims of anti-immigrant activities and violence in southern Arizona, United States

Friday, March 7, 2008

Participants: State of the United States.Seanna Howard; Robert Hershey.University of Arizona College of Law

Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families.Petitions and Cases


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


Case 12.459 – Lysias Fleury, Haiti

Friday, March 7, 2008

Participants: State of Haiti.Lysias Fleury; International Human Rights Law Clinic, American University

Topics: Petitions and Cases.Human Rights Defenders


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 Justice.Open Society Justice Initiative (OSI).University of Berkeley

Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families


Case 12.405 – Vicente Grijalva Bueno, Ecuador

Monday, March 10, 2008

Participants: Auditoría Democrática Andina.State of Ecuador.Francisco López Bermúdez

Topics: Petitions and Cases


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 Chile.Nancy Yáñez; José Aylwin.Observatorio de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Human Rights Defenders


Indirect restrictions of freedom of expression in Brazil

Monday, March 10, 2008

Participants: Article XIX.Center 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 Chile.Juan 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 Chuquisaca.Center 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 Camacho.State of Costa Rica.FUNDEHUCA

Topics: Petitions and Cases


Protected areas in indigenous territories in Guatemala

Monday, March 10, 2008

Participants: Defensoría Maya Qeqchi.State of Guatemala.Indian 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 Democracia.State 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 Ecuador.Ramiro Ávila Santamaría

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 Guatemala.Unidad de Protección de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (UDEFEGUA)

Topics: Most serious crimes under International Criminal Law.Transitional Justice.Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees


The Organic Law for Military and Police Justice in Peru

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Participants: State of Peru.Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL)

Topics: Military justice


Human Rights Situation of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Participants: Asociación Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES).State of Colombia.Global Rights - Partmers for Justice

Topics: Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination


Right to education of members of Afro-Descendent and Indigenous communities in the Americas

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Participants: Cornell University Law School.Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights .University of Virginia Law School

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Rights of Afro-Descendents / Against Racial Discrimination


Administration of justice in El Salvador

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Participants: CDH-ES.Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).CO-MADRES.Comisión de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador (CDHES).Comisión de Trabajo en Derechos Humanos Pro Memoria Histórica.Comite 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 Salvador.La Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (FESPAD).OTLA.Probúsqueda


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


Media consolidation and freedom of expression in Mexico

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Participants: Asociación Mexicana de Derecho a la Información.Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH).State of Mexico

Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


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 Salvador.Las Mélidas.Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz (ORMUSA)

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


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 - Argentina.State of Mexico

Topics: Rights of Women


Human Rights Situation in Colombia

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Participants: Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ).State of Colombia.Grupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH).REINICIAR

Topics: General Human Rights Situation


Human rights of migrant workers in transit in Mexico

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Participants: Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH).State of Mexico.Federación Internacional de Derechos Humanos (FIDH)

Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families.Labor and Workers' Rights


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 Colombia.Grupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH)

Topics: Rights of Women.Petitions and Cases


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 Peru.State of Peru

Topics: Transitional Justice


Press Conference at the Conclusion of the 131 Period of Sessions

Friday, March 14, 2008

Topics: Press Conferences


Presentation of the 2007 Annual Reports of the IACourtHR and the IACHR to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the OAS

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Topics: Annual Reports


119 Period of Sessions

Situation of Migrant Workers in the Hemisphere

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Participants: Sin Fronteras

Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families.General Human Rights Situation