Schedule




Friday, March 7, 2008

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 States.Seanna Howard; Robert Hershey.University of Arizona College of Law

Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families.Petitions 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 Rights.State of the United States.Sandra Babcock

Topics: Petitions and Cases.Precautionary 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 Bolivia.Corporación Humanas.ELA.Estudio para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (DEMUS)

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


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


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 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 Haiti.Lysias Fleury; International Human Rights Law Clinic, American University

Topics: Petitions and Cases.Human Rights Defenders


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


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


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


Monday, March 10, 2008

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


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


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


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


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


Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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


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


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


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 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 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 Peru.Instituto 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 Salvador.Las Mélidas.Organización 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 Peru.State 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-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


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


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


Friday, March 14, 2008

Press Conference at the Conclusion of the 131 Period of Sessions

Friday, March 14, 2008

Topics: Press Conferences


Thursday, April 3, 2008

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