XIX OAS POLICY ROUNDTABLE  

Challenges and Future of the Inter-American System on Human Rights

Landmark Celebration

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - 50^th Anniversary

Inter-American Court on Human Rights - 30^th Anniversary

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Hall of the Americas
17th Street and Constitution Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20006

3:30-3:40 pm  -  Welcoming remarks by José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General, Organization of American States (OAS)

3:40-4:40 pm   -    Discussion panel: Tomorrow’s Human Rights: Addressing the Challenges Ahead moderated by Irene Klinger, Director, Department of International Affairs, Secretariat for External Relations, OAS

Juan Mendez, Special Advisor on Prevention to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) & former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

Armstrong A. Wiggins, Director, Indian Law Resource Center,  Washington, D.C. Office

Helen Mack, Founder and President of the Myrna Mack Foundation Guatemala

Douglass Cassel, Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Notre Dame Law School 

4:40-5:00 pm  -  Question and answer session

5:00 pm  -   Reception to follow in OAS Patio