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Treaties - Resolutions - Special Sessions - Cooperation Activities - National Legislation - National Commissions
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS ON PROMOTION OF AND RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
Washington D.C., March 20, 2003
| AGENDA | PRESENTATIONS |
International humanitarian law: achievements, current status, and the outlook for new developments.
- Presentation: Antón Camen, Legal Advisor for Latin America. Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
- Commentator: Ambassador Ruiz-Cabañas, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS.
Recent international developments:
Report on the International Conference of Government and Non-Governmental Experts on Disappeared Persons.
- Presentation: Nathalie Fisher de Watteville, Deputy Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Washington, D.C.
- Comments: Ambassador Eduardo Ferrero Costa, Permanent Representative of Peru to the OAS.
Report on the Regional Meeting of Experts on Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
- Presentation: Ambassador Eduardo Ferrero Costa, Permanent Representative of Peru to the OAS.
- Comments: Carlos Gómez Morales. Minister Counselor, Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS.
Recent progress made in OAS member states in relation to the topics referred to in resolutions AG/RES. 1900 and 1904 (XXXII-O/02):
National enforcement of international humanitarian law: Recent developments in the states of the Americas.
- Presentations: Angela Healy, President of the Permanent Commission for the Application of International Humanitarian Law, Panama.
- Mauricio Alice, First Secretary, Alternate Representative of Argentina to the OAS.
- Ambassador Claudio Troncoso, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile.
- Commentator: Antón Camen, Legal Advisor, Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
International Criminal Court: Application of the Rome Statute at the hemispheric level.
- Presentations: Ambassador Paul D. Durand, Permanent Representative of Canada to the OAS.
- Brigitte Suhr, Advocate, International Justice Program. Human Rights Watch. Coalition for the International Criminal Court.
- Commentators: Ms. Gaile Ramoutar, First Secretary, Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations.
- Dr. Tarciso Dal Maso Jardim, Legal Advisor to the Senate. Member of the Committee that drafted the Brazilian bill on implementation of the Rome Statute, Brazil.
