PRESS RELEASE
IACHR STARTS ITS
127th REGULAR PERIOD OF SESSIONS
Nº 6/07
Washington,
February 21st, 2007 – On February 26th, 2007, the
Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) starts its 127th
regular period of sessions, during which it will analyze petitions,
cases and precautionary measures, as well as thematic and general
reports on human rights. The period of sessions, which includes hearings
and working meetings, will continue until March 9th.
The following is
the calendar of hearings, which will take place in the TL level of the
OAS General Secretariat building, 1889 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.
THURSDAY - MARCH
1st, 2007 |
9:00 - 10:00 |
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Center for International and
Environmental Law / Earthjustice / Sheila Watt-Cloutier |
9:00 – 10:00 |
Situation of human rights in Haiti
|
AGREDAH |
10:15 – 11:15 |
Human rights violations and
responsibility of international financial institutions
|
Indian
Law Resource
Center |
10:15 – 11:15 |
Situation of women deprived
of physical liberty |
Pastoral
Carcelaria Nacional / Grupo Mulheres Encarceradas / CEJIL
Government
of Brazil |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Women’s
participation and access to political power in the Americas
|
Coordinadora de
Mujeres de Bolivia / Corporación Humanas / ELA / DEMUS |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Petition 998/05 –
Lazinho Brambilla Da Silva, Brazil |
Conectas
Government of Brazil |
2:00 – 3:00 |
Public policies on adolescents in
conflict with the law in Brazil |
Government of Brazil |
3:00 - 4:00 |
Petition 250/04 –Ingarico,
Wapichana, Patamona, Macuxi and Taurepang indigenous peoples,
Brazil |
Conselho Indígena
de Roraima / Rainforest Foundation
Government of Brazil |
4:00
– 4:45 |
Situation of human rights in
Nicaragua |
|
4:15 – 5:15 |
Right to freedom of expression in
the Americas |
Federación
Internacional de Periodistas / Federación de Periodistas de
América Latina y el Caribe / Comisión Colombiana de Juristas
|
5:00 – 5:45 |
Situation of human rights in Cuba
(Hearing closed to the public and
the press) |
Petitioner |
|
9:00 – 10:00 |
Petition 1207/05 – John Melvin
Alexander and others, United States |
|
9:00 – 9:45 |
|
CEDHU / CDES / DECOIN
Government of Ecuador |
10:00 – 11:00 |
Case 12.592 –
Elías Gattas Sahih, Ecuador
|
Xavier Flores
Aguirre
Government of
Ecuador |
10:15 - 11:15 |
Petition 1490/05 – Jessica Gonzales,
United States
|
American
Civil Liberties Union
Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law
School
Government of the United States |
11:15 – 12:00 |
Murders of lawyers in Honduras
|
Colegio de Abogados
de Honduras / Comité para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en
Honduras (CODEH) |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Situation of persons
deprived of physical liberty in the Americas |
Observatorio
Latinoamericano de Prisiones / Observatorio Venezolano de
Prisiones / Centro de Prevención, Tratamiento y Rehabilitación de
Víctimas de la Tortura / Oficina de Derechos Humanos del
Arzobispado de Guatemala / comisión Episcopal de Acción Social /
Observatorio Chileno sobre el Control Social Punitivo / Grupo de
Mujeres Argentinas |
12:15 – 1:00 |
Public security and
human rights in Honduras |
Comité de Familiares
de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (COFADEH) |
3:00 – 4:00 |
Public security and human
rights |
CELS / Conectas /
Rede Universitaria de Direitos Humanos / Viva Rio / IDL / FESPAD /
WOLA |
3:00 - 4:30 |
Case 12.548 –Garífuna
community of Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras |
Organización
Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH)
Government of
Honduras |
4:15 – 5:15 |
Racial discrimination in the
Dominican Republic |
Servicio Jesuita de
Refugiados y Migrantes / CEJIL
Government of
Republica Dominicana |
4:45 – 5:45 |
Case 12.493 – Oscar Daniel Medina
and José Luis Hernández, Honduras |
Casa Alianza / CEJIL
Government of
Honduras |
TUESDAY– MARCH 6,
2007
|
9:00
– 9:45 |
Relatives of persons kidnapped for
political reasons in Colombia explain their opposition to rescue
operations
|
Yolanda Pulecio and
others |
9:00 - 10:00 |
Rights of children
deprived of physical liberty in Argentina
|
|
10:00 – 10:45 |
Situation
of afro descendents in
Colombia
|
Asociación para la
Promoción Social Alternativa |
10:15 - 11:15 |
Follow-up on the compliance with
Report 28/92, Argentina, about the incompatibility of impunity
laws with the Inter-American Convention
|
|
11:00 – 11:45 |
Report of the
National Commission of Reparation and Reconciliation of Colombia
|
Government of
Colombia |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Torture in Mexico |
Comisión Mexicana de
Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos / Colectivo contra la
Tortura y la Impunidad / Universidad Iberoamericana
Government of México |
12:00 – 1:00 |
Precautionary measures of
Congressman Gustavo Petro, Colombia
|
Comisión Colombiana
de Juristas
Government of
Colombia |
2:30 – 3:30 |
Case 12.531 – Manuel
Cepeda Vargas, Colombia |
Corporación
Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restrepo”
Government of
Colombia |
3:00 – 3:45 |
Murders of women in Chihuahua and
Sonora, Mexico |
|
3:30 – 4:30 |
Case 11.227 – Unión
Patriótica, Colombia |
REINICIAR
Government of
Colombia |
4:00 – 4:45 |
Right to freedom of expression in
the State of Sinaloa, Mexico |
|
4:45 – 5:45 |
Petition 1470/05 – SINTRAOFAN (Union
of State Workers of Antioquia), Colombia |
Grupo
Interdisciplinario de Derechos Humanos (GIDH)
Government of
Colombia |
4:45 – 5:30 |
Human rights situation of persons
deprived of physical liberty in Oaxaca, Mexico
|
|
6:00 – 7:00 |
|
|
|
9:00 – 9:45 |
Right to nutrition in Paraguay |
|
9:00 – 9:45 |
Domestic violence
in Chile |
Government of Chile
|
10:00 – 10:45 |
Situation of human rights defenders
in Venezuela
(Hearing closed to the public and
the press) |
Acción Ciudadana
contra el SIDA / COFAVIC / PROVEA / Vicaría de Derechos Humanos de
Caracas / CEJIL |
10:00 – 10:45 |
Situation of human rights defenders
in Guatemala |
CALDH / SEDEM /
Front Line |
11:00 – 12:30 |
Situation of human rights in
Venezuela |
Government of
Venezuela |
11:00 – 11:45 |
Impunity and denial of justice in
Guatemala |
|
12:00 – 12:45 |
Extrajudicial executions of
stigmatized persons in Guatemala |
CALDH / SEDEM /
ICCPG |
3:00 - 3:45 |
Public security and illegal
security groups (parapoliciales) in Venezuela
(Hearing closed to the public and
the press) |
COFAVIC / CEJIL |
3:00 – 3:45 |
Follow up on the recommendations of
the report of the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation of Peru
|
|
4:00 - 4:45 |
Situation of the right to
freedom of expression in Venezuela
(Hearing closed to the public and
the press) |
Espacio Público
/ Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Católica “Andrés
Bello” / CEJIL |
4:00 – 4:45 |
Situation of human rights defenders
in Peru |
|
4:45 – 5:30 |
Public security policies and human
rights in El Salvador |
|
5:00 – 5:45 |
Situation of institutionality,
guarantees and defense of human rights in Venezuela
(Hearing closed to the public and
the press) |
ACCSI / Espacio
Público / COFAVIC / Observatorio de Prisiones / PROVEA / Vicaría
de Derechos Humanos de Caracas |
Please direct press questions to
Maria-Isabel Rivero, telephone (202) 458-3796, e-mail
[email protected].
More information on the IAHRC:
http://www.cidh.org/DefaultE.htm
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