IACHR

Seminars

IACHR Seminar for the CARICOM Countries
George Washington University Law School
Burns Room/Room 412
2000 H Street, NW
Washington DC 20052

Friday, October 26, 2012

At this seminar, the George Washington Universty Law School announced its annual Buergenthal Fellowship Program for LLM Studies in Human Rights for students coming from the Caribbean. This is a year-long degree program that will be combined with an internship at the IACHR.


Agenda

8:30 - 9:00AM Registration of participants
9:00 - 9:30 AM WELCOME
  • Dean Paul Schiff Berman, GWU Law School
  • Ambassador Hugo De Zela, Chief of Staff to OAS Secretary General
  • Emilio Alvarez, Executive Secretary, IACHR

OPENING REMARKS

  • Ambassador Stephen Vasciannie, Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the OAS
9:30 - 10:00 AM Overview of Inter American Human Rights System 
  • Commissioner Dinah Shelton
10:00 - 10:45 AM Individual petitions
  • Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Assistant Executive Secretary, IACHR
  • Victor Madrigal, Principal Human Rights Specialist, IACHR
10: 45 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 - 11:45 AM Precautionary measures
  • Debora Benchoam, Human Rights Specialist, IACHR
11:45 - 12:45 PM Country monitoring
  • Mario Lopez-Garelli, Principal Human Rights Specialist/Coordinator of the English/French/Portuguese Country Group, IACHR
12:45 - 2:15 PM Working luncheon
  • Open forum/roundtable discussion on issues of concern to CARICOM  States
2:15 - 3:15 PM Thematic rapporteurships
  • Rosa Celorio, Human Rights Specialist, IACHR
3:15 - 4:15 PM Promotional activities
  • Michael Camilleri, Human Rights Specialist, IACHR
4:15 - 4:30 PM Closing remarks
  • Commissioner Dinah Shelton