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Last Update 19 March 2010

JUSTICE : New Challenges - the Right to an Effective Remedy before an Independent Tribunal

Yerevan, Armenia, 6 - 8 April 2010

Shirin Ebadi, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Abdou Diouf, Françoise Tulkens [1]
: these are a few names among the list of key personalities and renowned national and international experts participating in the FIDH Forum alongside human rights defenders from the 155 FIDH member organisations throughout the world. This forum, entitled “JUSTICE : New Challenges - the Right to an Effective Remedy before an Independent Tribunal”, will take place in Yerevan (Armenia) from 6th to 8th April 2010.

“This forum will represent a unique opportunity for debate and exchange of experiences and analysis relating to the fight against impunity, access to justice for victims of human rights violations and prevention of the most serious crimes”, declared Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH President. “Bringing together so many personalities around this issue shortly before the commemoration of the first genocide of the 20th century, takes on a strong symbolic importance in our eyes, in particular in the context of continued dialogue between Turkey and Armenia”, she explained.

This forum, organised in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (CSI), FIDH member organisation in Armenia, within the framework of the 37th FIDH Congress, will indeed constitute an opportunity to work on the different remedies available to victims of human rights violations in the course of their struggle for truth, justice and reparations on a national, regional and international level, and to look into the issue of the prevention of international crimes, on the basis of the exchange of experiences between participating NGOs from every continent.

Footnotes

[1] *Respectively, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Secretary-General of the International Organisation of La Francophonie, and Judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Acknowledgment

In collaboration with the Civil Society Institute (CSI), FIDH member organisation in Armenia

With the support of:

the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)

the Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Yerevan, Armenia

the European Union

the Council of Europe

the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

the Ford Foundation (Chile, Brazil)

the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs

the Foundation For the Future

In cooperation with:

the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

the Harvard University (Hauser Center)

the International Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)

Internet-agency Caucasian Knot - www.caucasianknot.info

Speakers

	Mr. AVETISYAN David, Judge, Chairman of the Chamber on criminal cases of the Court of Cassation, Armenia
	Mr. BA Amady, Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
	Ms BASHA Amal, Chairperson of Sisters Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF)
	Mr. BAUDOUIN Patrick, FIDH Honorary President
	Ms. BELHASSEN Souhayr, FIDH President
	Ms. BELLIVIER Florence, FIDH Secretary General
	Mr. BIALIATSKI Ales, FIDH Vice-President
	Mr. BOUKA Roger, President of the Observatoire congolais pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH)
	Ms. CHERIF Khadija, Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates (ATFD)
	Ms. CANO Gloria, Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)
	Mr. CAPURRO Juan-Carlos, FIDH Vice-President
	Mr. DANIELYAN Arman, President, Civil Society Institute
	Mr. DANIELYAN Gevorg, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia
	Mr. DIOUF Abdou, General Secretary of La Francophonie
	Ms. DUTOUR Nassera, Collectif des Familles de Disparus en Algérie (CFDA)
	Ms. EBADI Shirin, Human rights advocate and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
	Mr. EL YAZAMI Driss, FIDH General Secretary
	Mr. FALL Mabassa, FIDH Representative to the African Union (AU)
	Ms. FERSTMAN Carla, Director of REDRESS Trust
	Mr. FUELE Stefan, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, European Commission
	Ms. GALABRU Kek, President of the Ligue cambodgienne pour les droits de l’Homme (LICADHO)
	Ms. GALLAGHER Katie, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
	Ms. GUTIEREZ ARGUELLO Soraya, FIDH Vice-President, President of the Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR)
	Mr. HARUTYUNYAN Gagik, President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia
	Ms. HERNANDEZ Maria Natividad, Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)
	Ms HOM Sharon, Human Rights in China
	Mr. JABAREEN Hassan, Director of ADALAH
	Ms. JAHANGIR Asma, Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)
	Ms. JAHANGIRI Guissou, Armanshahr / Open Asia
	Mr. KABA Sidiki, FIDH Honorary President
	Mr. KAPINOS Sergey, Head of the office of the OSCE in Yerevan, Armenia
	Mr. KIRAKOSYAN Artak, Chairman of the Board of the Civil Society Institute (CSI)
	Mr. KITENGE Dismas, FIDH Vice-President, President of Groupe Lotus
	Mr. KOROTEEV Kirill, Mission delegate of FIDH
	Ms. KOUROS Kristiina, Secretary General of the Finnish League for Human Rights (FLHR)
	Mr. LAHIDJI Karim, FIDH Vice-President, President of the Ligue iranienne de défense des droits de l’Homme (LDDHI)
	Mr. LANA Anton Giulio, Unione Forense per la tutela dei diritti dell’uomo
	Ms. LE HUEROU Anne, FIDH Mission delegate
	Mr. LENARCIC Janez, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
	Ms. MBAYE Fatimata, FIDH Vice-President, President of the Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l’Homme (AMDH)
	Mr. MEDANI Amin M., Sudan Human Rights Monitor (SHRM)
	Mr. MENUCHIN Ishai, Director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)
	Ms. MOGWE Alice, Director of DITSHWANELO
	Ms MONGE Elsie, President of the Truth Commission in Ecuador, Comisión ecumenica de derechos humanos (CEDHU)
	Mr. MORALES Diego, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
	Mr. MORENO OCAMPO Luis, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
	Ms. MOUDEÏNA Jacqueline, Director of the Association tchadienne pour la promotion et la défense des droits de l’Homme (ATPDH)
	Mr. NANUASHVILI Ucha, Head of the Human Rights Center (HRIDC)
	Ms. NUÑEZ Vilma, FIDH Vice-President, President of the Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH)
	Mr. OLLÉ Manuel, President of Asociación pro derechos humanos de España (APDHE)
	Ms. PENA Mariana, FIDH delegate to the International Criminal Court (ICC)
	Mr. PEREZ Luis-Guillermo, FIDH Secretary General
	Mr. PUSIC Zoran, Civic Committee for Human Rights
	Mr. SOBERON Francisco, Director of Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)
	Ms. SOKIRYANSKAYA Ekaterina, Human Rights Center "Memorial"
	Mr. SOURANI Raji, FIDH Vice-President, President of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)
	Ms. STOTHARD Debbie, Altsean-Burma
	M. SULEIMAN Amir, African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS)
	Mr. THUN Saray, President of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC)
	Ms. TULKENS Françoise, Judge of European Court of Human Rights
	Mr. TSUNGA Arnold, FIDH Vice President, President of the Human Rights Association (Zimrights)
	Mr. URIBE Alirio, Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR)
	Mr. VAN RAEMDONCK Dan, FIDH Vice-President
	Ms. VEGA Paulina, President of the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos A.C. (CMDPDH)
	Ms. WANYEKI L. Muthoni, Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)
	Mr. ZEYNALOV Eldar, Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan