Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR):


Public Hearings




Thursday, December 7, 2017
Follow-up of the recommendations of the IACHR Report on asylum seekers in Canada (2000)

Follow-up of the recommendations of the IACHR Report on asylum seekers in Canada (2000)

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: Human Rights Lawyers.Asociación Americana de Juristas (A.A.J.).Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture.State of Canada.Inter-Church Committee for Refugees

Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families


Follow-up and implementation of International human rights obligations in Canada

Follow-up and implementation of International human rights obligations in Canada

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: Americas Team of the Human Rights Law Implementation Project (part of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UK).Amnesty International.Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children.State of Canada.Social Rights Advocacy Centre

Topics: General Human Rights Situation


Measures to prevent human rights violations by Canadian extractive industries that operate in Latin America

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: State of Canada.Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF).Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa

Topics: Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights


Reports of sexual discrimination in the Indian Act of Canada

Reports of sexual discrimination in the Indian Act of Canada

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA).State of Canada

Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples


Denuncias de impunidad por ejecuciones extrajudiciales en Estados Unidos

Denuncias de impunidad por ejecuciones extrajudiciales en Estados Unidos

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU).State of the United States.International Human Rights Clinic, Santa Clara University School of Law.Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

Topics: Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees.Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment


Rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression in the United States

Rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression in the United States

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL.Charity & Security Network.CIVICUS.State of the United States

Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


Labor rights in the automotive industry in the United States

Labor rights in the automotive industry in the United States

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: State of the United States.UAW United Auto Workers

Topics: Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights


Economic, social, cultural and environmental rights in Puerto Rico

Economic, social, cultural and environmental rights in Puerto Rico

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Participants: Clínica de Asistencia Legal de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Puerto Rico .Human Rights Organization Coalition of Puerto Rico.State of the United States

Topics: Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights