37th FIDH Congress : the Forum
5 February 2010
The FIDH Forum will take place from 6 to 8 April 2010 in Yerevan, Armenia
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Day 1: - OPENING - Tuesday, 6 April 2010 | 1:00 - 7:30 pm | Venue: Philharmonic Centre
1:00 - 1:30 pm Registration
2:00 – 3:30 pm Official Ceremony
- Mr. Artak Kirakosyan, Chairman of the Board, CSI
- Ms. Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH President
- Mr. Gagik Harutyunyan, President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia (to be confirmed)
- Mr. Janez Lenarcic, Director, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- Mr. Abdou Diouf, General Secretary, International Organisation of La Francophonie
Musical interlude
3:30 – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 – 6:00 pm Opening of the Forum
Master of ceremonies: Ms. Soraya Gutierez Arguello, FIDH Vice-President, CCAJAR (Colombia) and Mr. Sidiki Kaba, FIDH Honorary President (Senegal)
- Testimony: Ms. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, HRC “Memorial”, “The Victims’ Search for Justice”
- Ms. Françoise Tulkens, Judge, European Court of Human Rights, “The Role of the Regional Protection Systems in the enforcement of National Justice Systems/ The role of the Universal Jurisdiction”
- Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC) “International and National Justice: The use of the ICC Complementarity Principle”
- Testimony: Ms. Shirin Ebadi, Human rights advocate and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, “Independence of justice and separation of powers”
- Mr. Gevorg Danielyan, Minister of Justice of Armenia, “Administration of Justice and the challenges of the National Reforms”
- Mr. Sergey Kapinos, Head of the Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Yerevan
- Mr. Patrick Baudouin, FIDH Honorary President (France), “Objectives and methodology of the Forum”
8:30 Registration
PANEL I - International Justice: A tool for domination or for progress?
Day 2: Wednesday, 7 April 2010| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Venue: Erebuni Plaza Business Center
This Panel will highlight the current debate around international justice. The claim of being used only in a selective way and not as a universal principle applicable to all will be addressed.
Claims on its partiality will be confronted with experiences where international justice has become the only option for victims to obtain justice. Moreover, its positive effect will be addressed including where international justice has fostered national processes of justice or contributed to crime deterrence. The need to set up new jurisdictions - international, hybrid or ad hoc courts - as a tailored response will be also discussed by the speakers, this in the light of the Review Conference of the ICC Statute to take place in May 2010 in Kampla, Uganda, and the stocktaking exercise envisaged to take place. The discussions and the recommendations in this Panel and the related Workshop will serve as an important input to this exercise.
- Moderator: Mr. Manuel Ollé (APDHE/Spain)
Debaters:
- Mr. Sidiki Kaba (FIDH Honorary President / Senegal)
- Mr. Ucha Nanuashvili (HRIDC / Georgia)
- Mr. Hassan Jabareen (Adalah / Israel)
- Mr. Amady Ba (Office of the Prosecutor, ICC)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- The International Criminal Court (ICC): http://www.fidh.org/-International-...
> Guide for Victims, their Legal Representatives and NGOs on Victims’ Rights before the International Criminal Court: http://www.fidh.org/Victims-Rights-...
> DRC / ICC: http://www.fidh.org/-DRC-ICC-
> Uganda / ICC: http://www.fidh.org/-Uganda-ICC-
> Sudan-Darfur / ICC: http://www.fidh.org/-Sudan-Darfur-ICC-
> CAR / ICC: http://www.fidh.org/-CAR-ICC-
> Kenya / ICC:
> Colombia / ICC: http://www.fidh.org/-Colombia-CPI-
- The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC): http://www.fidh.org/-ECCC-
- ICTY and ICTR
- Universal jurisdiction: http://www.fidh.org/-Universal-Juri...
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
- A. Bernard, K. Bonneau, “Punir, dissuader, réparer - Quelle justice pénale internationale?”, in Faire la paix: la part des institutions internationales, Dir. G. Devin, Les Presses Sciences Po, 2009
- International Criminal Court (ICC): http://www.icc-cpi.int
> The Three Year Plans & Strategies of the Registry in respect of complementarity for an effective Rome statute system of international criminal justice, Silvana Arbia, ICC Registrar, for the Consultative Conference on international criminal justice, September 2009: http://www.internationalcriminaljus...
> ICC Office of the Prosecutor Prosecutorial Strategy
> ICC OTP weekly briefings
PANEL II - The challenges of national judicial systems: their willingness and capacity to investigate and prosecute
Workshop A - Triggering national justice
Day 2 : Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 10:45 am - 12:30 pm | Venue: Erebuni Plaza Business Center
Case study: Cavallo (Mexico/Spain/Argentina) and Fujimori (Peru/Chile))
In both the Cavallo and Fujimori case, after a long process in which several FIDH member organizations of different countries were involved, tribunals of the State where the crimes were committed are finally judging Cavallo and Fujimori for the commission of gross human rights violations. Both cases illustrate the importance of coordinating efforts among NGOs and of states’ international obligations in these cases in order to finally organise the trials in the country where the violations/crimes were committed and strengthen capacities of national jurisdictions.
This Workshop will try to present the objectives of triggering national justice mechanisms, the obstacles and proposed solutions to overcome them.
- Case study : Fujimori (Peru / Chile): Mr. Francisco Soberon (APRODEH / Peru); Cavallo (Mexico / Argentina / Spain): Ms. Paulina Vega (CMDPDH / Mexico)
- Facilitator: Mr. Ishai Menuchin (PCATI / Israel)
- Rapporteur: Ms. Kristiina Kouros (FLHR / Finland)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Fujimori Case
> Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) / Pérou: http://www.juicioysancionafujimori....
> Argentinian Cases
> Weblogs of the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) on the cases of the Argentinian dictatorship: http://www.cels.org.ar/wpblogs/
> Document of the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Espana (APDHE) on the cases of the Argentinian dictatorship
- Morocco and the reform of the judiciary
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
- Cavallo Case: http://www.cavalloentrerejas.com/
Workshop B - Measuring the capacity and the willingness of national justice systems
Day 2 : Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 10:45 am - 12:30 pm | Venue: Erebuni Plaza Business Center
Criteria used by the European system of human rights protection and the criteria used by the ICC
Two of the main obstacles that victims face in the fight against impunity are the lack of capacity or the unwillingness of national justice systems to bring those responsible of human rights violations accountable. Therefore victims have been forced to search justice before international judicial bodies. However, due to the complementarity or subsidiary nature of these mechanisms, one of the first analysis victims and human rights NGOs have to do is to assess their national judicial system using internationally or regionally recognised criteria or standards.
The European Court of Human Rights and the ICC are two examples of institutions that have to make an assessment of the capacity and willingness of national justice systems in order to decide whether they can act or not. Understanding the list of criteria used by both institutions and the way they conduct their analysis, will allow participants to better apply these criteria in their assessment of the capacity and willingness of their national justice system.
- List of criteria by the ECHR: Ms. Françoise Tulkens (Judge, ECHR)
- List of criteria by the ICC: Mr. Amady Ba (Office of the Prosecutor, ICC)
- Facilitator: Mr. Anton Giulio Lana (UFTDU / Italy)
- Rapporteur: Ms. Florence Bellivier (FIDH Secretary General / France)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Colombia: http://www.fidh.org/-Colombia-
- Israel / OPT: http://www.fidh.org/-Israel-Occupie...
- Russia
- Central African Republic (CAR): http://www.fidh.org/-CAR-ICC-
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
- A. Bernard, K. Bonneau, “Punir, dissuader, réparer - Quelle justice pénale internationale?”, in Faire la paix: la part des institutions internationales, Dir. G. Devin, Les Presses Sciences Po, 2009
> Note on case-law on the issue of exhaustion of domestic remedies:
[Fr]: http://www.echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyre...
[En]: http://www.echr.coe.int/NR/rdonlyre...
> Final judgment in the case of Finucane v. the United Kingdom, October 2003, on the criteria of evaluation of effective investigation and prosecution:
[Fr]: http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/v...
[En]: http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/v...
- ICC Office of the Prosecutor Prosecutorial Strategy
Workshop C - The needed involvement of victims: between participation and other ways for victims to contribute to justice
Day 2 : Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 10:45 am - 12:30 pm | Venue: Hotel Marriott - Salon: Queen Erato
Case study: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the experience of Colombia
With the development of international criminal justice and the establishment of new international and hybrid criminal tribunals, like the International Criminal Court and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the need for a bigger involvement of victims in these proceedings, above their traditional and limited role as witnesses, has been recognised and incorporated in the statutes of these tribunals. Victims can contribute to proceedings before these jurisdictions providing the Prosecutor with information on crimes and alleged perpetrators, feeding his analysis and investigation and influencing his prosecutorial strategy. Victims can also share their views and concerns before the judges. Participants before the ICC and civil parties before the ECCC, victims have the right to be represented by lawyers, including during trial proceedings, where their interest, as well as their views and concerns are presented, and victims can request reparations. However, these recognised rights come with challenges that these newly established tribunals have troubles to meet. The experience of Colombia on the involvement of victims in national criminal proceedings, and the concrete application of the Justice and Peace Act, will also help participants to understand how the participation of victims can be envisaged in national cases, taking into account the contribution of Colombian victims to the analysis of the ICC Prosecutor of the Colombian situation.
This workshop is about sharing experience and propose concrete strategies to render the involvement of victims in international/ised criminal proceedings effective.
- Case study: Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC),
Mr. Thun Saray (ADHOC / Cambodia), the International Criminal Court (ICC),
Ms. Mariana Pena (FIDH / Argentina), and the Colombian experience, Ms. Soraya Gutierez Arguello (CCAJAR / Colombia) - Facilitator: Mr. Patrick Baudouin (FIDH Honorary President / France)
- Rapporteur: Mr. Roger Bouka (OCDH / Republic of Congo)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC): http://www.fidh.org/-ECCC-
- The International Criminal Court (ICC): http://www.fidh.org/-International-...
> Guide for Victims, their Legal Representatives and NGOs on Victims’ Rights before the International Criminal Court: http://www.fidh.org/Victims-Rights-...
> The situation of the Democratic Republic of Congo before the ICC
> The situation of the Central African Republic before the ICC: the Bemba case
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
ICC Strategy in relation to victims [En]: http://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_...
Stratégie de la Cour concernant les victimes [Fr]: http://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_...
Estrategia de la CPI en relación con víctimas [Esp]: http://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_...
Workshop D - Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
Day 2 : Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 10:45 am - 12:30 pm |Venue: Hotel Marriott - Salon: Tigran the Great
Case study: Gaza (Spain, United Kingdom) and Rwanda (European Union)
When victims of international crimes are unable to find a response to their need for justice in their own country and when international criminal tribunals do not have jurisdiction over the crimes committed, the use of the principle of extraterritorial jurisdiction is an option that victims have explored over the last decade. Extraterritorial or universal jurisdiction allows the courts of any country anywhere in the world to try perpetrators of serious international crimes regardless of the location of the crimes and irrespective of the nationality of the perpetrator or the victim. It is based on the recognition that certain crimes are so horrific that they affect the international community as a whole. However, even if this principle is being more and more used, it meets some obstacles, often of political nature, that undermine its effect.
The Al-Daraj bombing in Gaza in July 2002 is an important example for different reasons. The NGO supporting victims of this bombing decided to look for other avenues to obtain justice by filing of a complaint before Spanish courts. In January 2009 a criminal investigation was open against seven Israeli political and military officials for allegedly committing a war crime – and possibly a crime against humanity – in that operation. The opening of this investigation was followed by diplomatic pressures exercised by Israeli authorities on Spain to prevent this case to continue. As a result Congress approved modifications to the legislation limiting the scope of universal jurisdiction in Spain.
The case of Rwanda will also give an example of how victims have succeed in the opening of investigations, and even prosecutions, to cover the impunity gap left by the UN backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Finally, the study of the general status of the universal jurisdiction in European Union states will also show the negative effects that political pressure has have in the restriction of the use of this legislation by national courts or even in the modification of legislation which explain in part current debates on universal jurisdiction before the African Union and the UN General Assembly, aiming at strategizing on how to overcome these current obstacles.
- Case study: Gaza (Spain / United Kingdom): Mr. Raji Sourani (FIDH Vice-President, PCHR/Palestine) and Rwanda/European Union: Ms. Carla Ferstman (REDRESS, United Kingdom)
- Facilitator: Mr. Arnold Tsunga (FIDH Vice-President, HRA / Zimbabwe)
- Rapporteur: Ms. Katie Gallagher (CCR / USA)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Israel / OPT:
> FIDH documents: http://www.fidh.org/-Israel-Occupie...
> PCHR documents: http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/i...
- Main universal jurisdiction cases: http://www.fidh.org/-Universal-Juri...
> Ben Saïd Case (Tunisia/France): http://www.fidh.org/-Ben-Said-Case-
> The disappeared of the Beach of Brazzaville case (Congo/France): http://www.fidh.org/-The-Disappeare...
> Ely Ould Dah case (Mauritania/France): http://www.fidh.org/-Ely-Ould-Dah-Case-
> Hissène Habré case (Chad/Senegal): http://www.fidh.org/-Hissene-Habre-Case-
> Pinochet and others (Chile/France): http://www.fidh.org/-Pinochet-and-o...
> Probo Koala case (Côte d’Ivoire/France-Netherlands-UK): http://www.fidh.org/-Affaire-Cote-d...
> Rumsfeld Case (USA/France-Allemagne):
FIDH: http://www.fidh.org/-USA-Guantanamo...
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) / USA: http://ccrjustice.org/case-against-...
- Universal or extra-territorial jurisdiction
> FIDH documents
> FIDH-REDRESS documents
> Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) / USA: http://ccrjustice.org/learn-more/fa...
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
PANEL III - Obtaining truth, justice and reparation: complementary systems to criminal justice
Day 2: Wednesday, 7 April 2010| 2:00 - 3:30 pm | Venue: Erebuni Plaza Business Center
In order to obtain truth, justice and reparation, victims have approached different venues besides the one of criminal justice. The regional human rights protection systems are the clearest example of complementary justice systems.
These systems allow victims to have a determination of the violations suffered and a declaration on the responsibility of the State involved in these violations. Moreover, the decisions of regional human rights protection bodies allow victims and NGOs to go back to their national justice system and demand the implementation of these decisions, that can encompass the obligation for national judicial systems to bring those who bear the responsibility for gross human rights violations to justice. However, these systems are not available in all regions of the world.
Other means of redress have been sought such as the setting up of Truth Commissions and other means of transitional justice. Another tool to foster accountability for those who committed international crimes and obtain justice can be found in the setting up of international missions of inquiry. These missions allow the establishment of facts and responsibilities and are an essential mean to hold perpetrators accountable.
- Moderator : Mr. Diego Morales (CELS / Argentina)
Debaters:
- Ms. Nassera Dutour (CFDA / Algeria)
- Ms. Elsie Monge (President of the Truth Commission in Ecuador, CEDHU / Ecuador)
- Mr. Armen Harutyunyan (Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia)
- Mr. Mabassa Fall (FIDH Representative to the African Union / Senegal)
- Ms. Jacqueline Moudeïna (ATPDH / Chad)
- Mr. David Avetisyan (Judge, Chairman of the Chamber on Criminal Cases of the Court of Cassation, Armenia)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Algeria
- Morocco
- China
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
- Juan Mendès, “Background Paper for Panel on Regional Organs of Protection”, Consultative Conference on international criminal justice, September 2009 [En]:
http://www.internationalcriminaljus...
- Cecile Aptel, “Domestic Justice Systems and the Impact of the Rome Statute”, Consultative Conference on international criminal justice, September 2009 [En]:
http://www.internationalcriminaljus...
- The reform of the European Court of Human Rights and the conference of Interlaken, February 2010:
> http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Hea...
> http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research...
PANEL IV - Justice and the responsibility of non-state actors
Day 2: Wednesday, 7 April 2010| 2:00 - 3:30 pm | Venue:Hotel Marriott - Salon: Tigran The Great
One of the important challenges in seeking justice for gross human rights violations is to hold non-state actors accountable. Non-state actors involved in human rights violations include companies and multinationals.
While NGOs’ search for justice for crimes involving companies has mainly been focusing on their civil responsibility, some attempts to expand it to criminal accountability have already taken place. In this regard the scope and applicability of Article 25 of the ICC Statute can be interesting, showing how instrumental such contemporary criminal law can be.
At the same time, the fight of governments against crimes allegedly committed by non-state actors has increasingly become an issue of attention, especially in the framework of governments’ fight against terrorism. The need to fight the abuse of the legal framework and practice of these policies and make them respect international standards for human rights protection is still a current issue in different regions.
- Moderator: Ms. Alice Mogwe (DITSHWANELO / Botswana)
Debaters:
- Ms. Katie Gallagher (CCR / USA)
- Ms. Maria Natividad Hernandez (PAHRA / Philippines)
- Ms. Asma Jahangir (HRCP / Pakistan)
- Mr. Alirio Uribe (CCAJAR / Colombia)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
> Fight against terrorism: http://www.fidh.org/-Terrorism-
> Corporate accountability: http://www.fidh.org/-Globalization-...
- Final declaration of the Nairobi seminar, November 2008: http://www.fidh.org/Corporate-accou...
- FIDH position paper on the frame proposed by John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Business and Human Rights, October 2009:
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
> John Ruggie reports, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Business and Human Rights
- 2009 Report to the Human Rights Council:
Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the “protect, respect and remedy” framework" [En], April 2009: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodie...
Les entreprises et les droits de l’homme: Vers une traduction opérationnelle du cadre «Protéger, respecter et réparer» [Fr]: http://www.reports-and-materials.or...
La empresa y los derechos humanos: La puesta en práctica del marco “proteger, respetar y remediar” [Esp]: http://www.reports-and-materials.or...
- 2008 Report to the Human Rights Council:
“Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights” [En]: http://www.reports-and-materials.or...
“Protéger, respecter et réparer: un cadre pour les entreprises et les droits de l’homme” [Fr]: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UN...
“Proteger, respetar y remediar: un marco para las actividades empresariales y los derechos humanos” [Esp]: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UN...
> Oxford Report, “Obstacles to justice and redress for victims of corporate human rights abuse”, November 2008 [En]: http://www2.law.ox.ac.uk/opbp/Oxfor...
> Guidelines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises [En]: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/56/36/...
Principes Directeurs de l’OCDE à l’intention des entreprises multinationales [Fr]: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/56/39/...
LÍNEAS DIRECTRICES DE LA OCDE PARA EMPRESAS MULTINACIONALES [Esp]: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/20/...
> Tripartite Declaration of the International Labor Office (ILO)
Déclaration de principes tripartite sur les entreprises multinationales et la politique sociale (Fr]: http://www.ilo.org/public/french/em...
Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy [En]: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/e...
Declaracion tripartita de principios sobre las empresas multinationales y la politica social [Esp]: http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/il...
Workshop E - The role of regional human rights protection systems in the reinforcement of national justice
Day 2: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 3:45 - 5:45 pm |Venue : Erebuni Plaza Business Center
Case study: Chechnya (European Court of Human Rights - ECHR) and Peru (Inter-American Court of Human Rights - IACtHR)
The case law and jurisprudence of the regional human rights protection systems is very rich, in particular explaining the content of the rights to an effective remedy. Moreover, these decisions have had a good impact in improving the functioning of national justice systems through their recommendations, leading for example to the reform of national justice institutions, laws and practices.
Recently, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued numerous important and progressive decisions on the situation in Chechnya. Russian NGOs referred the situation in Chechnya to the ECHR after trying, without success, to trigger domestic courts. Although they are facing difficulties in the implementation of these decisions, participants will use them to discuss the strategies for the implementation of decisions and the impact that these decisions can have in improving the access of victims to justice.
The case of Peru will serve as an example to show how the Inter-American System of Human Rights Protection has examined the issue of an effective remedy. It will highlight in particular the positive effect that it has had over the years in Latin-America to foster national proceedings after periods of military dictatorships and to overcome legal obstacles such as the adoption of amnesty laws for international crimes in transition periods.
- Case Study: Chechnya (ECHR): Ms. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya (HRC “Memorial” / Russia) and Mr. Kirill Koroteev (FIDH Mission delegate / Russia) ; and Peru (ICtHR): Ms. Gloria Cano (APRODEH / Peru)
- Facilitator: Mr. Juan-Carlos Capurro (FIDH Vice-President / Argentina)
- Rapporteur: Ms. Anne Le Huérou (FIDH Mission delegate / France)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Chechnya / Russia
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
- Chechnya / Russia before the European Court of Human Rights [En]:
> Enforcement of Chechen judgments: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research...
> Enforcement of other ECHR judgments: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research...
- Juan Mendès, “Background Paper for Panel on Regional Organs of Protection”, Consultative Conference on international criminal justice, September 2009 [En]:
http://www.internationalcriminaljus...
Workshop F – The establishment of the truth: a strategic issue
Day 2 : Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 3:45 - 5:45 pm | Venue: Erebuni Plaza Business Center
Case study: Burma and Kenya
The need to establish the truth is a key element in the search for justice and therefore implies big challenges, including the establishment of the facts (eg. Algeria, Sri Lanka, Burma). Different countries have experienced the setting up of truth commissions as a way to establish the facts after a period of armed conflict or in a transition to democracy. Other means of establishing the truth were the setting up of international missions of inquiry (eg. Sudan, Kenya, Chad, Gaza and others) with the participation of international experts. A common element of these commissions is that they have recommended the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for human rights violations. The establishment of the truth also plays a key role for certain human rights violations and international crimes and in particular enforced disappearances. In this context, the recent adoption of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the need to have it enforced will be addressed.
An international mission of inquiry in Kenya led to the establishment of truth and facts and recommendations on best ways to effectively investigate and prosecute alleged perpetrators of the crimes committed. FIDH has been campaigning for the establishment of an international and independent mission of inquiry in Burma, which would pave the way for future criminal investigations and prosecutions of alleged perpetrators of crimes committed.
- Case study: Burma: Ms. Debbie Stothard (Altsean-Burma/Burma) and Kenya: Ms. L. Muthoni Wanyeki (KHRC / Kenya)
- Facilitator: Mr. Zoran Pusic (CCHR / Croatia)
- Rapporteur: Ms. Khadija Cherif (ATFD / Tunisia)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Israel / OPT and Gaza
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
- Israel / OPT and Gaza
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by Richard Goldstone: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodie...
- Guinea
Report of the international commission of inquiry: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/...
Workshop G - Respect of Human Rights in the fight against terrorism
Day 2 : Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 3:45 - 5:45 pm | Venue: Hotel Marriott - Salon: Tigran The Great
Case study: The human rights challenges in the cases of Yemen, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and China
While respect for human rights in the framework of the fight against terrorism remains a major challenge for FIDH and its member organisations, the current context illustrates that there are other obstacles that have to be addressed and integrated into future strategies. After the clear disrespect of human rights and international law by the Bush Administration, the inauguration of Obama to the US presidency represents a fresh opportunity to change the approach and practices in the fight against terrorism. However, Obama has decided to send new troops to Afghanistan.
The case of Abu Ghraib and its proxy centres in Afghanistan will show the challenges in addressing the fight against terrorism, and will help to enrich the discussion on new elements that must be envisaged in future strategies. The case of Pakistan will also serve as an example of the current challenges in the fight against terrorism. First, which type of accountability do we want to reach. And secondly, how to reinforce our work to reach a more effective respect of human rights, including alliances with groups other than human rights. While the respect of human rights will be the main focus of the workshop, the need to address the accountability of actors who commit acts of terrorism will be also addressed.
The case of Uzbekistan is of particular concern due to the high level of repression and violence, but at the same time, is representative of the current situation in the region where the fight against terrorism is more and more often used as an excused for harsh political repression. In Uzbekistan where the majority of population is Muslim, believers are accused of extremism and hundreds of people are persecuted every year and their basic human rights violated.
- Case study: Human rights challenges from the situation in Yemen, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and China: Ms Amal Basha (SAF/ Yemen), Ms Guissou Jahangiri (Armanshahr/Iran), representative of FIDH member organisation in Uzbekistan and Ms Sharon Hom (HRIC/China)
- Facilitator: Mr. Luis Guillermo Perez (FIDH Secretary General / Colombia)
- Rapporteur: Mr. Dan Van Raemdonck (FIDH Vice-President / Belgium)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Fight against terrorism: http://www.fidh.org/-Terrorism-
- Yemen
- Russia
- Egypt
- Pakistan
- Philippines
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- Relevant documents by partner organisations
Workshop H – Accountability of multinationals: the need for common strategies
Day 2: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 | 3:45 - 5:45 pm | Venue: Hotel Marriott - Salon: Queen Erato
FIDH and its member organisations have explored venues and shared lessons learned to increase multinationals’ accountability. Two seminars have been held, one in Nairobi, Kenya in 2008, and other in Bogota, Colombia in 2009.
Each of these seminars addressed the main challenges faced by victims, lawyers and NGOs. Both recalled the importance of adopting a victim oriented approach in the conduct of activities, reaffirmed the need for enhanced coordination at the national and international levels and the need to hold multinationals accountable (ie. by using Article 25 of the ICC Statute, the extra-territorial obligations of judges from countries of multinationals’ headquarters, by updating the OECD guidelines to the attention of multinationals, or addressing the project of an economical and environmental international court). The conclusions of these seminars can serve as a basis to guide the discussions of this workshop with the idea to share experiences and lessons learned in leading advocacy activities with states and multinationals and in bringing cases in order to draw common legal and political strategies.
- Presentation of the discussions and conclusions of the Nairobi and Bogota seminars: Mr. Emmanuel Daoud (FIDH Mission Delegate, France)
- Facilitator: Mr. Alirio Uribe (CCAJAR / Colombia)
- Rapporteur: Ms. Kek Galabru (LICADHO / Cambodia)
- Relevant documents by FIDH and member organisations
- Final declaration of the Nairobi seminar, November 2008: http://www.fidh.org/Corporate-accou...
- Seminar in Bogota, November 2009, “Transnational corporations and human rights: litigation from a victims perspective” [Esp]: http://www.business-humanrights.org...
- FIDH position paper on the frame proposed by John Ruggie, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Business and Human Rights, October 2009:
- TOTAL in Burma: http://www.fidh.org/-TOTAL-in-Burma-
- Relevant documents by partner organisations
> John Ruggie reports, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Business and Human Rights
- 2009 Report to the Human Rights Council:
Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the “protect, respect and remedy” framework" [En], April 2009: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodie...
Les entreprises et les droits de l’homme: Vers une traduction opérationnelle du cadre «Protéger, respecter et réparer» [Fr]: http://www.reports-and-materials.or...
La empresa y los derechos humanos: La puesta en práctica del marco “proteger, respetar y remediar” [Esp]: http://www.reports-and-materials.or...
- 2008 Report to the Human Rights Council:
“Protect, Respect and Remedy: a Framework for Business and Human Rights” [En]: http://www.reports-and-materials.or...
“Protéger, respecter et réparer: un cadre pour les entreprises et les droits de l’homme” [Fr]: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UN...
“Proteger, respetar y remediar: un marco para las actividades empresariales y los derechos humanos” [Esp]: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UN...
> Oxford Report, “Obstacles to justice and redress for victims of corporate human rights abuse”, November 2008 [En]: http://www2.law.ox.ac.uk/opbp/Oxfor...
> Guidelines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises [En]: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/56/36/...
Principes Directeurs de l’OCDE à l’intention des entreprises multinationales [Fr]: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/56/39/...
LÍNEAS DIRECTRICES DE LA OCDE PARA EMPRESAS MULTINACIONALES [Esp]: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/20/...
> Tripartite Declaration of the International Labor Office (ILO)
Déclaration de principes tripartite sur les entreprises multinationales et la politique sociale (Fr]: http://www.ilo.org/public/french/em...
Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy [En]: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/e...
Declaracion tripartita de principios sobre las empresas multinationales y la politica social [Esp]: http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/il...
Day 3: Thursday, 8 April 2010 - PLENARY
Day 3: Thursday, 8 April 2010 | 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Venue : Hotel Marriott - Hall: Tigran The Great
8:30 am Registration
9:00 – 10:15 am Plenary session: reports from the workshops
Moderator : Mr. Karim Lahidji (FIDH Vice-President / Iran)
A) Triggering national justice
B) Measuring the capacity and the willingness of national justice systems
C) The needed involvement of victims: between participation and other ways for victims to contribute to justice
D) Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
10:15 - 10:40 am Testimonies: filling the protection gap for human rights defenders fighting impunity - Mr. Amir Suleiman (ACJPS / Sudan) et Ms. Vilma Nuñez (FIDH Vice-President, CENIDH / Nicaragua)
- Annual Report of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders 2009: http://www.fidh.org/Steadfast-in-pr...
- Annual Report of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders 2007: http://www.fidh.org/Steadfast-in-protest
- Paper of the Victims Rights Working Group before the ICC on intermediaries
10:40 – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am - 12:15 pm Plenary session: reports from the workshops
Moderator : Ms. Fatimata Mbaye (FIDH Vice-President, AMDH / Mauritania)
E) The role of regional human rights protection systems in the reinforcement of national justice
F) The establishment of the truth: a strategic issue
G) Respect of Human Rights in the fight against terrorism
H) Accountability of multinationals: the need for common strategies
12:15 – 12:30 pm Conclusion
Mr. Ales Bialiatski (FIDH Vice-President, HRC “Viasna” / Belarus)
React
Acknowledgment
In collaboration with the Civil Society Institute (CSI), FIDH member organisation in Armenia
With the support of:
In cooperation with:
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
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)
Speakers
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Mr. AVETISYAN David, Judge, Chairman of the Chamber on criminal cases of the Court of Cassation, Armenia |
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Mr. BA Amady, Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) |
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Ms BASHA Amal, Chairperson of Sisters Arabic Forum for Human Rights (SAF) |
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Mr. BAUDOUIN Patrick, Honorary President of FIDH |
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Ms. BELHASSEN Souhayr, President of FIDH |
![Florence Bellivier [France] {JPEG}](IMG/jpg/bellivier.jpg) |
Ms. BELLIVIER Florence, FIDH Secretary General |
![Aliaksandr Bialiatski [Belarus] {JPEG}](IMG/jpg/Bialiatski.jpg) |
Mr. BIALIATSKI Ales, Vice-President of FIDH |
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Mr. BOUKA Roger, President of the Observatoire congolais pour les droits de l’Homme (OCDH) |
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Ms. CHERIF Khadija, Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates |
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Ms. CANO Gloria, Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) |
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Mr. CAPURRO Juan-Carlos, Vice-President of FIDH |
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Mr. DANIELYAN Arman, President, Civil Society Institute |
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Mr. DANIELYAN Gevorg, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia |
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Mr. DAOUD Emmanuel, lawyer and member of the Legal Action Group of FIDH |
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Mr. DE LUZENBERGER Raul, Head of the Delegation of the European Union in Armenia |
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Mr. DIOUF Abdou, General Secretary of International Organisation of La Francophonie |
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Ms. DUTOUR Nassera, Collectif des Familles de Disparus en Algérie (CFDA) |
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Ms. EBADI Shirin, Human rights advocate and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate |
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Mr. EL YAZAMI Driss, General Secretary of FIDH |
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Mr. FALL Mabassa, FIDH Representative to the African Union (AU) |
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Ms. GALABRU Kek, President of the Ligue cambodgienne pour les droits de l’Homme (LICADHO) |
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Ms. GALLAGHER Katie, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) |
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Ms. GUTIEREZ ARGUELLO Soraya, Vice-President of FIDH, President of the Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR) |
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Mr. HARUTYUNYAN Armen, Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia |
| Mr. HARUTYUNYAN Gagik, President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia (to be confirmed) | |
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Ms. HERNANDEZ Maria Natividad, Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) |
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Ms HOM Sharon, Human Rights in China |
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Mr. JABAREEN Hassan, Director of ADALAH |
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Ms. JAHANGIR Asma, Director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan |
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Ms. JAHANGIRI Guissou, Armanshahr / Open Asia |
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Mr. KABA Sidiki, Honorary President of FIDH |
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Mr. KAPINOS Sergey, Head of the office of the OSCE in Yerevan, Armenia |
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Mr. KIRAKOSYAN Artak, Chairman of the Board of the Civil Society Institute (CSI) |
![Dismas Kitenge Senga [RDC] {GIF}](IMG/gif/kiteng1.gif) |
Mr. KITENGE Dismas, Vice-President of FIDH, President of Groupe Lotus |
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Mr. KOROTEEV Kirill, Mission delegate of FIDH |
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Ms. KOUROS Kristiina, Secretary General of the Finnish League for Human Rights |
![Karim LAHIDJI [Iran] {JPEG}](IMG/jpg/lahidji.jpg) |
Mr. LAHIDJI Karim, Vice-President of FIDH, President of the Ligue iranienne de défense des droits de l’Homme (LDDHI) |
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Mr. LANA Anton Giulio, Unione Forense per la tutela dei diritti dell’uomo |
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Ms. LE HUEROU Anne, Mission delegate of FIDH |
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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) |
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Ms. MBAYE Fatimata, Vice-President of FIDH, President of the Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l’Homme |
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Mr. MENUCHIN Ishai, Director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) |
| M. MINERA Mario Eduardo, Director of the Centro Para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH) | |
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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) | |
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Mr. MORENO OCAMPO Luis, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) |
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Ms. MOUDEÏNA Jacqueline, Director of the Association tchadienne pour la promotion et la défense des droits de l’Homme (ATPDH) |
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Mr. NANUASHVILI Ucha, Head of the Human Rights Center (HRIDC) |
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Ms. NUÑEZ Vilma, Vice-President of FIDH, President of the Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH) |
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Mr. OLLÉ Manuel, President of Asociación pro derechos humanos de España (APDHE) |
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Ms. PENA Mariana, FIDH delegate to the International Criminal Court (ICC) |
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Mr. PEREZ Luis-Guillermo, Secretary General of FIDH |
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Mr. PUSIC Zoran, Civic Committee for Human Rights |
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Mr. SOBERON Francisco, Director of Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) |
| Ms. SOKIRYANSKAYA Ekaterina, Human Rights Center Memorial | |
![Raji Sourani [Palestine] {JPEG}](IMG/jpg/radji1.jpg) |
Mr. SOURANI Raji, Vice-President of FIDH; President of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) |
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Ms. STOTHARD Debbie, Altsean-Burma |
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M. SULEIMAN Amir, African Center for Justice and Peace Studies |
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Mr. THUN Saray, President of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) |
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Ms. TULKENS Françoise, Judge of European Court of Human Rights |
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Mr. TSUNGA Arnold, Vice President of FIDH; President of the Human Rights Association (Zimrights) |
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Mr. URIBE Alirio, Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR) |
![Dan Van Raemdonck [Belgique] {JPEG}](IMG/jpg/Raemdonck.jpg) |
Mr. VAN RAEMDONCK Dan, Vice-President of FIDH |
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Ms. VEGA Paulina, President of the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos A.C. (CMDPDH) |
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Ms. WANYEKI L. Muthoni, Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) |
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Mr. ZEYNALOV Eldar, Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan |
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Keywords
- International Justice
- Globalization
- Urgent Appeals
- Women’s Rights
- Human Rights Council
- league
- International Criminal Court
- Death Penalty
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Human Rights Defenders
- United Nations
- Universal Jurisdiction
- Statements
- Terrorism
- African Union
- Reports
- Economic Social & Cultural Rights
- migrations
- European Union
