Schedule of
Hearings, 140o Period of Sessions, October 2010
Monday,
October 25 - Padilha Vidal Room (TL Level, GSB)
Public
hearings held in this room will be
webcast live
Videos and
audio recordings will be posted on the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
9:00 – 10:00
|
Situation
of the Right to Freedom of Expression, Assembly, Association,
and Movement in Canada |
Petitioner:
Clinique internationale de défense des droits humains de
l’Université du Québec à Montréal (CIDDHU) / Ligues des droits
et libertés / Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de
l’homme (FIDH)
State of Canada |
10:15 –11:00
|
Situation
of Environmentalists in Mesoamerica |
Petitioner:
Centro para el Derecho Internacional Ambiental (CIEL)
/ Asamblea Departamental de Huehuetenango en Defensa de los
Recursos Naturales Renovables y no Renovables (ADH) / Asociación
de Organismos No Gubernamentales (ASONOG) / Asociación
Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA) / Centro de
Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM) / Centro Mexicano de Derecho
Ambiental (CEMDA) / Comité en Solidaridad con el Pueblo de El
Salvador (CISPES) / Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala
(CONAVIGUA) / Frente de Defensa Miguelense (FREDEMI) / Fundación
para el Debido Proceso Legal (DPLF) / Movimiento de Jóvenes
Mayas (MOJOMAYAS) / Mesa Nacional frente la Minería Metálica /
Red Mexicana de Afectados por la Minería, sección Chiapas /
Waqib Kej |
11:15 –12:15
|
Discrimination against the Transsexual, Transgender, and
Transvestite Population in Brazil |
Petitioner:
Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) / Identidade /
Rede Nacional de Negros e Negras LGBT / Grupo Ativista de
Travestis e Transexuais e Amig@s (GATTA)
State of Brazil |
2:00 – 3:00
|
Allegations
on Excessive Use of Police Force against Afro-descendants in
Brazil |
Petitioner:
Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra / Global Rights
State of Brazil |
3:15 - 4:15
|
Mechanism
for the Implementation of Precautionary Measures in Honduras |
Petitioner:
Comité de Familiares Detenidos Desaparecidos de Honduras (COFADEH)
/ Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación de la
Compañía de Jesús (ERIC) / Centro de Investigación y Promoción
de Derechos Humanos (CIPRODEH) / Center for Justice and
International Law (CEJIL)
State of Honduras |
4:30 – 5:30
|
Situation
of the Right to Freedom of Expression in Honduras |
Petitioner:
Article 19 / Programa de Legislaciones y Derecho de la
Comunicación AMARC-ALC /
Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
/ International Media Support (IMS)
State of Honduras |
5:45 – 6:30
|
Private
Hearing
Situation
of Citizen Security and Human Rights in Paraguay |
Petitioner:
Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos de Paraguay
State of Paraguay |
Monday,
October 25 -
Ruben Darío Room (GSB 8th Floor)
The hearings held in this room will not be Webcast. The audio recordings will be available on
the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
9:00 – 10:00 |
Human
Rights Situation in Chile |
Petitioner: Clínica de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Diego
Portales
State of Chile |
10:15 – 11:15 |
Judicial
Processes involving Crimes against Humanity during the Military
Dictatorship in Argentina
|
Petitioner:
State of Argentina (*) |
11:30 – 12:30 |
Legal
Obstacles for the Recognition and Titling of Indigenous Lands in
Guatemala |
Petitioner:
Carlos Antonio Pop Ac
State of Guatemala |
2:00 – 3:00 |
Precautionary Measure PM 260/07 – Communities of the Sipakapense
and Mam Maya People, Guatemala
|
Centro Pluricultural para la Democracia
State of Guatemala
(On the
IACHR’s own initiative)
|
3:15 – 4:15 |
Human
Rights Situation and Access to Justice for Women in Bolivia |
Petitioner:
Oficina Jurídica para la Mujer de Cochabamba / Centro de
Estudios para el Desarrollo Laboral y Agrario (CEDLA)
State of Bolivia |
4:30 – 5:30 |
Situation
of the Right to Freedom of Expression in Bolivia |
Petitioner:
Asociación de Periodistas de La Paz
State of Bolivia |
5:45 – 6:45 |
Hearing
canceled on request of the petitioners
Situation
of the Guaraní Indigenous People in the Bolivian Chaco |
Petitioner:
Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social (CEJIS)
State of Bolivia |
(*) Based on
Article 66.4 of its Rules of Procedure, the IACHR has arranged for civil
society organizations to have an opportunity to participate in this
hearing. The representatives of these organizations will make their
presentations after the State’s.
Tuesday,
October 26 - Padilha Vidal Room (TL Level, GSB)
Public
hearings held in this room will be
webcast live
Videos and
audio recordings will be posted on the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
9:00 – 9:45
|
Private
Hearing
Human
Rights Situation and Rule of Law in Nicaragua |
|
10:00 -11:00
|
Military
Justice and Impunity in Peru |
Petitioner:
Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) / Coordinadora Nacional de
Derechos Humanos
State of Peru |
11:15 – 12:15
|
Forced
Disappearance of Persons in Peru |
Petitioner:
Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) / Coordinadora Nacional de
Derechos Humanos
State of Peru |
2:00 – 3:00
|
Petition
366/09 – Wong Ho Wing, Peru |
Luis Lamas Puccio
Petitioner:
State of Peru |
3:15 - 4:00
|
International Standards and Prosecution of Persons Accused of
Terrorism in Peru |
Petitioner:
State of Peru |
4:15 - 5:00
|
Rights of
Indigenous Peoples and Energy and Extractive Industry Policy in
Peru |
Petitioner:
Asociación Paz y Esperanza / Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)
/ Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Practica (CAAAP)
/ Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos del Peru / Derecho
Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) / Instituto de Defensa Legal
(IDL) / Instituto del Bien Común (IBC) / Servicios en
Comunicación Intercultural (SERVINDI) / Central Ashaninka del
Río Ene / Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva
Peruana (AIDESEP)
State of Peru |
5:15 – 6:00
|
Situation
of Human Rights Defenders in Mesoamerica |
Petitioner:
Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña TLACHINOLLAN /
Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales (ICCPG) /
Unidad de Protección a Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos
Humanos (UDEFEGUA) /Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del
Derecho (FESPAD) / Centro de Investigación y Promoción de los
Derechos Humanos (CIPRODEH) / Comité de Familiares de Detenidos
Desaparecidos (COFADEH) / Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos
Humanos (CENIDH) / Centro de Derecho Ambiental y Recursos
naturales (CEDARENA) / Servicio de Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ) /
Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) |
Tuesday,
October 26 -
Ruben Darío Room (GSB 8th Floor)
The hearings held in this room will not be Webcast. The audio recordings will be available on
the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
9:00 – 10:00
|
Human
Rights Situation in the Camps for Internally Displaced Persons
in Haiti |
Petitioner:
Bureau des Avocats Internationaux / Institute for Justice and
Democracy in Haiti / International Human Rights Clinic,
Washington College of Law, American University
State of Haiti |
10:15 – 11:15
|
Human
Rights Situation During Reconstruction in Haiti |
Petitioner:
Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH)
/ Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) / Centre
Œcuménique des Droits Humains (CEDH) / Comité des Avocats pour
le Respect des Libertés Individuelles (CARLI)
State of Haiti |
11:30 – 12:30
|
HEARING CANCELLED
Human
Rights Situation of Women in the Camps for Internally Displaced
Persons in Haiti |
Petitioner:
Mouvement de Femmes de Cité Soleil (MOFECS)
State of
Haiti |
2:00 – 3:00
|
Human
Rights Situation of Children and Women in the Area of
Ouanaminthe, Haiti |
Petitioner:
Regroupement des Citoyens pour la Protection des Droits Humains
(RECIPRODH)
State of Haiti |
3:15 - 4:00
|
Discrimination against Women in the Exercise of their Economic
and Social Rights in the Americas |
(On the
IACHR’s own initiative) |
4:15 – 5:00
|
Right to
Reproductive Health of Women who Live with HIV/AIDS in the
Americas |
Petitioner:
Centro de Derechos Reproductivos / Fundación Xochiquetzal de
Nicaragua / Red Legal Canadiense de VIH/SIDA |
5:15 – 6:00
|
Punitive
Measures and Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Identity in
Caribbean Countries |
Petitioner:
Global Rights / Society Against Sexual Orientation / Jamaica
Forum for Lesbians all-Sexuals and Gays / Coalition Advocating
Inclusion of Sexual Orientation / Movement Against
Discrimination Action Committee |
6:15 – 7:00
|
Hate Crimes
against Members of the LGBT Community and Impunity in Central
America |
Petitioner:
Asociación LGBT Arco Iris / Centro de Investigación y Promoción
de los Derechos Humanos (CIPRODEH) / Centro para la Educación y
Prevención del SIDA (CEPRESI) / Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos
Humanos (CENIDH) / Centro de Investigación y Promoción para
América Central de Derechos Humanos (CIPAC) / Center for Justice
and International Law (CEJIL) |
Thursday, October 28 - Padilha Vidal Room (TL Level, GSB)
Public
hearings held in this room will be
webcast live
Videos and
audio recordings will be posted on the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
9:00 – 10:00
|
Human
Rights Situation in Colombia |
|
10:15 – 11:15
|
Application
of the Military Jurisdiction in Cases of Human Rights Violations
in Colombia |
Petitioner:
Asociación Minga / Corporación Jurídica Humanidad Vigente /
Colectivo de Abogados Luis Carlos Pérez (CALP) / Colectivo de
Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR) / Fundación Comité de
Solidaridad con Presos Políticos (FCSPP) / Justapaz
State of Colombia |
11:30 – 12:30
|
Human
Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Colombia |
Petitioner:
Autoridad Nacional de Gobierno Indígena de Colombia (ONIC)
State of Colombia |
2:00 – 3:00
|
Situation
of Human Rights Defenders in Colombia and Implementation of
Precautionary Measures
|
Petitioner:
Corporación
Reiniciar / Sisma Mujer / Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas /
Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES)
/ Programa Somos Defensores – Asociación Minga / Corporación
Jurídica Yira Castro / Corporación Sembrar
State of Colombia |
3:15 - 4:15
|
Femicide
and Domestic Violence in Uruguay |
Petitioner:
Red Uruguaya contra la Violencia Domestica y Sexual /
CNS
Mujeres por Democracia / Equidad y Ciudadanía / Canarias en
movimiento / Ciudadanías en Red / Iniciativa
Latinoamericana / Accionar entre Mujeres Guyunusa / Aire.uy /
Fundación PLEMUU / Mujer Ahora / El Faro
Centro Interdisciplinario “Caminos” / Instituto Mujer y Sociedad
/ SERFAM / GAMU / Centro de Comunicación Virginia Wolf-Cotidiano
Mujer / La Voz de la Mujer / Casa de la Mujer de la Costa /
Casabierta / Colectivo Mujeres de Negro Uruguay / Nuevos
Caminos / Casa de la Mujer de la Unión / Sociedad Uruguaya de
Sexología
State of Uruguay |
4:30 – 5:30
|
Human
Rights Situation in Panama |
Petitioner:
Unión de Abogados y Abogadas Indígenas de Panama
State of Panama |
5:45 – 6:30
|
Abuse of
Children with Disabilities in State Facilities in the Americas
|
Petitioner:
Disability Rights International |
Thursday, October 28 -
Ruben
Darío Room (GSB 8th Floor)
The hearings held in this room will not be Webcast.
The audio recordings will be available on
the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
10:00 – 11:00
|
Right to
Consultation and Participation in Issues of Public Interest in
Mexico |
Petitioner:
Comunidad Indígena Huichol de Tuapurie, Santa Catarina
Cuexcomatitlán / Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositoras a la
Presa La Parota (CECOP) / Alianza Sierra Madre A.C. / Centro de
Derechos Humanos de la Montaña “Tlachinollan” / Centro Mexicano
de Derecho Ambiental A.C. (CEMDA) / Colectivo Coa A.C. /
Conservación Humana A.C. /
State of México |
11:15 – 12:15
|
National
Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders in Mexico |
Petitioner:
Acción Urgente para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (ACUDDEH)
/ Abogadas y Abogados para la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos /
Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias / Centro de Derechos
Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (Centro Prodh) / Centro de
Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan / Centro Nacional de
Comunicación Social (CENCOS) / Comité Cerezo / Comisión de
Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos / Grupo de
Información y Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) /
Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos "Todos
los Derechos para Todas y Todos"
State of México |
3:15 - 4:15
|
Human Rights Situation of Peasants and Persons of Afro-Caribbean
and Indigenous Descent in Cantón de Talamanca,
Costa Rica |
Petitioner:
Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de Manzanillo /
Organizaciones comunales
State of Costa Rica |
4:30 – 5:30
|
The
Constitution and the Right to Nationality in the Dominican
Republic |
Petitioner:
Red
de Encuentro Dominico Haitiano Jacques Viau / Movimiento de
Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA) / Center for Justice and
International Law (CEJIL) / Global Rights / Open Society Justice
Initiative (OSI)
State of República Dominicana |
5:45 – 6:45
|
Human
Rights Situation of Independent Union Leaders in Cuba |
Petitioner:
Grupo
Internacional por la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Cuba
(GIRSCC)
State of Cuba |
Friday,
October 29 - Padilha Vidal Room (TL Level, GSB)
Public
hearings held in this room will be
webcast live
Videos and
audio recordings will be posted on the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
9:00 – 10:00
|
Petition
900/08 – Djamel Ameziane, United States |
|
10:15 - 11:15
|
Case
12.719, Orlando Cordia Hall, United States |
Petitioner:
Owen Bonheimer (Steptoe & Johnson LLP)
State of
the United States |
11:30 –12:30
|
Situation
of Indigenous Children in Schools in the United States |
Petitioner:
Boarding School Healing Project and others (**)
State of
the United States |
2:00 – 2:45
|
Private
Hearing
Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights Defenders in Venezuela
|
Petitioner:
Comité de Víctimas de los Sucesos de Febrero-Marzo de 1989 (COFAVIC)
/ Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) / Acción
Solidaria / Espacio Público / Carlos Ayala Corao / Caritas Los
Teques / Vicaría de Derechos Humanos de la Arquidiócesis de
Caracas |
3:00 - 3:45
|
Private
Hearing
Situation
of the Right to Freedom of Expression and Information in
Venezuela |
Petitioner:
Espacio Público / Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad
Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) / Colegio Nacional de Periodistas
(CNP) / Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Prensa (SNTP) /
Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL ) |
4:00 – 4:45
|
Human
Rights Situation in Venezuela |
Petitioner:
State of Venezuela |
5:00 – 6:00
|
Citizen
Security, Prisons, Sexual Diversity, and Equality in Venezuela |
Petitioner:
Foro por los Derechos Humanos y la Democracia (Justicia y
Proceso Venezuela, Asociación Civil Control Ciudadano para la
Seguridad y Defensa de la Nación, Diversidad e Igualdad Sexual
ante la Ley y Una Ventana a la Libertad)
State of Venezuela |
Friday,
October 29 -
Ruben
Darío Room (GSB 8th Floor)
The hearings held in this room will not be Webcast. The audio recordings will be available on
the
IACHR site |
Time
(Local) |
Title of
Hearing |
Participants |
9:00 – 9:45
|
Human
Rights Situation of the Indigenous Communities Affected by
Activities of the Mining Industry in the Andean Region
|
|
11:15 – 12:15
|
Situation
of the Right to Freedom of Expression in Ecuador |
Petitioner:
Participación Ciudadana / Canales Comunitarios Regionales
Ecuatorianos Asociados (CCREA) / Asociación Ecuatoriana de
Editores de Periódicos (AEDEP) / Fundamedios / Alfredo Negrete
State of Ecuador |
2:00 – 3:00
|
Case 12.698 – Adriana Plaza Orbe et al., Ecuador |
Petitioner:
Fundación Regional de Asesoría en Derechos Humanos (INREDH)
/ Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Ecuador (PUCE)
State of Ecuador |
3:15 - 4:15
|
Presentation of the Report of the Truth Commission of Ecuador |
Petitioner:
Comisión de la Verdad de Ecuador
State of Ecuador |
4:30 – 5:15
|
Presentation of “40 Principles for Guaranteeing Diversity and
Pluralism in Broadcasting and Audiovisual Communication
Services” |
Petitioner:
Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias para América Latina y
el Caribe (AMARC-ALC) |
5:30 – 6:15
|
Indirect
Censorship and Official Advertising in the Americas |
Petitioner:
Open Society Justice Initiative / Asociación por los Derechos
Civiles / Centro de Archivos y Acceso a la Información Pública /
Grupo Medios y Sociedad / Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa /
Instituto Prensa y Sociedad / Centro de Análisis e Investigación
FUNDAR / Article 19 / Fundación Pro Acceso / Instituto de Prensa
y Libertad de Expresión
|
(**) In
the hearing “Situation
of Indigenous Children in Schools in the United States) that will be
held Friday, October 29, from 11:30 to 12:30 in the Padilha Vidal Room,
the following organizations are also petitioners: Western Shoshone
Defense Project / National Congress of American Indians / Seventh
Generation Fund / Internatíonal Indian Treaty Council / Cultural
Survival / US Human Rights Network / National Organization of Women
Foundation / Ms. Tonya Gonella Frichner- North American Regional
Representative of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues /
Chief Oren Lyons- Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation / Andrew Erueti-
Amnesty International Coordinator, Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples /
Indigenous Environmental Network / Guahan Coalition for Peace & Justice
/ Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights / Lucy Te Moana- Private
Secretary to Minister of Maori Affairs / First Nations Confederacy of
Cultural Education Centres / United Natives Shawn A-in-chut-Atleo-
National Chief, Assembly of First Nations / Quebec Native Women INC. /
Leon K. Siu - The Hawaiian Kingdom, Minister of Foreign Affairs /
Kenneth Deer- Publisher-Editor of the Eastern Door / Les Melzer-
Chairperson for the International Indigenous Peoples' Caucus / Dennis
Norman- Faculty Chair, Harvard University Native American Program /
Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa- Director, University of Hawaii Center For
Hawaiian Studies / Verónica Lozano- United Nations Energy and
Environment Development Programme / Urgent Action Fund for Women's
Human Rights / Native American Network of the American College Personnel
Association / Comunidad Liberación- Liberation Community / The Northern
Illinois Conference Committee on Native American Ministries, (United
Methodist Church) / National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Ecumenical Commission of the National Council of Churches of Australia /
My People International / Wiconi International / North American
Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies / Native Youth Sexual Health
Network / Malcolm X Grassroots Movement / Young Women United / Ancient
Ways of Knowing Foundation / Women's Health & Justice Initiative (New
Orleans, LA) / Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative /
Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley / María
Chavez Quispe - World Council of Churches Indigenous Peoples Consultant
/ Dr. George Tinker - The Clifford Baldridge Chair of American Indian
Cultures and Religious / Traditions Iliff School of Theology / Leslie R.
Wolfe, Ph.D. President, Center for Women Policy Studies / Tim Giago,
Indian Country Today / M. Thandabantu Iverson, Indiana University
Northwest
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