PRESS RELEASE
Nº 8/07
IACHR ANNOUNCES
WEBCAST OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
OF THE 127th
REGULAR PERIOD OF SESSIONS
Washington,
February 26, 2007 – The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR)
informs that the audio of the public hearings of the 127th
regular period of sessions will be available on its webpage, and that
several of the hearings will be broadcast through the OAS webpage.
The audio of all
the public hearings that will take place on March 1, 2, 6 and 7 will be
available for listening or downloading on the webpage of the IACHR (www.cidh.org)
for a limited time. The list of all the hearings of the 127th
period of sessions is available in
press release No.
6/07. In addition, as part of a pilot project, some of the hearings
will be webcast live on the webpage of the OAS (www.oas.org).
This is the first
time that the IACHR will use this technology. The goal the Commission
pursues with this innovation is to deepen the transparency of its
processes and broaden access to the information it generates.
The following is
the list of the hearings that will be broadcast alive. The local time of
the transmission and the starting time in GMT are included.
THURSDAY - MARCH 1,
2007 |
9:00 - 10:00
2:00 p.m. GMT |
|
Center for
International and Environmental Law / Earthjustice / Sheila Watt-Cloutier |
10:15 –
11:15
3:15 p.m.
GMT |
Human rights
violations and responsibility of international financial
institutions
|
Indian Law
Resource Center |
11:30 – 12:30
4:30 p.m. GMT |
Women’s participation and access to political power in the
Americas |
Coordinadora de Mujeres de Bolivia / Corporación Humanas / ELA /
DEMUS |
4:00
– 4:45
9:00 p.m. GMT |
Situation of
human rights in Nicaragua |
|
|
9:00 – 10:00
2:00 p.m. GMT |
Petition
1207/05 – John Melvin Alexander and others, United States |
|
10:15 - 11:15
3:15 p.m.
GMT |
Petition
1490/05 – Jessica Gonzales, United States
|
American
Civil Liberties Union
Human Rights
Clinic, Columbia Law School
Government of
the United States |
11:30 – 12:30
4:30 p.m.
GMT |
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 |
3:00 – 4:00
8:00 p.m. GMT |
Public
security and human rights |
CELS / Conectas / Rede Universitaria de Direitos Humanos / Viva
Rio / IDL / FESPAD / WOLA |
4:15 –
5:15
9:15 p.m.
GMT |
Racial
discrimination in the Dominican Republic |
Servicio
Jesuita de Refugiados y Migrantes / CEJIL
Government of
Republica
Dominicana |
TUESDAY– MARCH 6, 2007
|
9:00 - 10:00
2:00 p.m. GMT |
Rights of children deprived of physical liberty in Argentina
|
|
10:15 - 11:15
3:15 p.m.
GMT |
Follow-up on
the compliance with Report 28/92, Argentina, about the
incompatibility of impunity laws with the Inter-American
Convention
|
|
11:30 - 12:30
4:30 p.m. GMT |
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 |
3:00 – 3:45
8:00 p.m. GMT |
Murders of
women in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico |
|
4:00 – 4:45
9:00 p.m. GMT |
Right to
freedom of expression in the State of Sinaloa, Mexico |
|
4:45 – 5:30
9:45 p.m. GMT |
Human rights
situation of persons deprived of physical liberty in Oaxaca,
Mexico
|
|
|
9:00 – 9:45
2:00 p.m.
GMT |
Domestic
violence in Chile |
Government of Chile |
10:00 – 10:45
3:00 p.m. GMT |
Situation of
human rights defenders in Guatemala |
CALDH / SEDEM / Front Line |
11:00 – 11:45
4:00 p.m. GMT |
Impunity and
denial of justice in Guatemala |
|
12:00 – 12:45
5:00 p.m. GMT |
Extrajudicial
executions of stigmatized persons in Guatemala |
CALDH / SEDEM / ICCPG |
3:00 – 3:45
8:00 p.m. GMT |
Follow up on
the recommendations of the report of the Commission of Truth and
Reconciliation of Peru |
|
4:00 – 4:45
9:00 p.m. GMT |
Situation of
human rights defenders in Peru |
|
4:45 – 5:30
9:45 p.m. GMT |
Public
security policies and human rights in El Salvador
|
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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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