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« October 2008 »

Costa Rica Presents “Vida Social y Derecho” and Donates Books to the Columbus Memorial Library

Date: October 29, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS and UNED of Costa Rica Sign Cooperation Agreement

Date: October 29, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Precautionary Measures and Petition 592/07 - Hul´qumi´num Treaty Group, Canada

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Situation of imprisoned union members in Cuba

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Citizen security and violence in Venezuela

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Persons with HIV in Central America

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Violations of economic, social, and cultural rights of indigenous peoples and access to justice in Honduras and Nicaragua

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Situation of children deprived of liberty in Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.581 - Jesús Vélez Loor, Panama

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Due process problems in the application of policies on immigrant detention and deportation in the United States

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Lecture Series of the Americas: “Facing Energy Security in the Americas through Agroenergy Sources”

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Protocolary Meeting of the Permanent Council in honor of Fernando Lugo Méndez, President of the Republic of Paraguay

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Right to private property of indigenous peoples of Panama

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.361 and Petitions 1368/04, 16/05, 678/06, 1191/06 – In vitro fertilization, Costa Rica

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: PM 259/02 - Detainees at the Guantánamo Naval Base/ PM 211/08 - Djamel Ameziane, United States

Date: October 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Situation of persons deprived of liberty in prisons and mental hospitals in Argentina

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Prison conditions of persons deprived of liberty on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: The justice system and impunity in Haiti

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Freedom of expression and political rights in Nicaragua

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Situation of violence and discrimination against women in Haiti

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.277 – Fazenda Ubá, Brazil

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.053 – Maya communities of the Toledo District, Belize

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Amnesty Law as obstacle to justice in Brazil

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.624 – Carlos Baraona Bray, Chile

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.479 – José Airton Honorato et al. (Castelinho), Brasil

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.519 – Leopoldo García Lucero, Chile

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.569 – Quilombolas communities of Alcántara, Brazil

Date: October 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Discrimination based on gender, race, and sexual orientation in the Americas

Date: October 24, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.543 - Alejandro Xavier León Vega, Ecuador

Date: October 24, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.643 - Elías López Pita and Luis Alberto Shinin Laso, Ecuador

Date: October 24, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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Meeting of the Association of Caribbean States

Date: October 24, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Racial discrimination and access to justice of Afro-descendants in Colombia  

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Freedom of expression in Peru

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Case 12.251 – Village of La Esperanza (Carmen de Viboral), Colombia

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Precautionary measure 629-03 – Justice and Peace Commission, Colombia  

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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33º Regular Session of the IACHR:Discrimination and violence against women as a result of the armed conflict in Colombia  

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Case 11.227 – Unión Patriótica, Colombia (Testimony and comments)

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Situation of labor justice in El Salvador

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Rule of law, judicial independence, and democracy in Colombia  

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Reports of arbitrary detentions and torture in prisons in Honduras

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Extraditions of paramilitaries and the rights of victims in Colombia

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Due process and disciplinary actions against judges in Honduras

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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Columbus Memorial Library Receives Book Donation from the Government of Panama  

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Receives a Visit from the President of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, Gilmar Ferreira Mendes

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with the New Permanent Observer of Russia the OAS, Ambassador Sergey Kislyak

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with the New Permanent Observer of the Netherlands to the OAS, Ambassador Regina Veronica Maria Jones-Bos

Date: October 23, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Petition 1186/04 - Opario Lemoth Morris et al. (Buzos Miskitos), Honduras

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Border Wall in Texas, United States  

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Follow-up to complaints regarding extrajudicial executions/ Actions in response to murders of protected persons in Colombia

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Inefficacy of the labor justice system for agricultural workers in Guatemala

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Case 12.626 – Jessica Gonzales, United States

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
Vidéo | Links
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Protection of human rights defenders in Guatemala

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
Vidéo | Links
133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Complaints regarding the criminalization of human rights defenders in Guerrero, Mexico

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR: Attacks on actors in the justice system in Guatemala  

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Rights to the use and exploitation of natural resources and prior consultation with respect to the Cucapá indigenous people of Mexico  

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Case 12.590 – José Miguel Gudiel Álvarez et al. (Diario Militar), Guatemala

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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133º Regular Session of the IACHR:Impact of public-security policies on human rights in Mexico

Date: October 22, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
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The Prince of Jordan, Mired bin Raad bin Zeid Al-Hussein, Visits OAS Headquarters

Date: October 21, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with the Chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Paolo Carozza

Date: October 21, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
SICA Delegation Headed by its Secretary General Aníbal Quiñónez Visits OAS Headquarters

Date: October 21, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with SICA Secretary General, Ambassador Aníbal Quiñónez

Date: October 21, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Offers Closing Remarks at the Lecture “Advocacy Before Regional Human Rights Bodies: A Cross-Regional Agenda”, Organized by the MacArthur Foundation

Date: October 20, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
Inauguration of the 133º Regular Session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Date: October 20, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Chile Ratifies the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty

Date: October 16, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Presents the Book “Visions From Finis Terrae. Chilean Voices in the United States” Published by Inter-American Dialogue

Date: October 16, 2008
Place: Inter-American Dialogue - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS, NRDC and PODER Magazine Offer Reception for “A Renewable Future”

Date: October 15, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OAS/OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Attends the Inauguration of the Photographic Exhibit by Colombian Artist Hernán Díaz

Date: October 15, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with Bulgaria’s Permanent Observer to the OAS, Ambassador Elena Borislavova Poptodorova

Date: October 15, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Receives the Visit of ALADI Secretary General, Ambassador Hugo Saguier Caballero

Date: October 14, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia leiva
President of El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Court, Walter René Araujo Morales, Deposits at OAS Electoral Roll for 2009 Municipal and Presidential Elections

Date: October 14, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Regular Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council

Date: October 14, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with Bolivian Ministers Carlos Villegas Quiroga and Luis Alberto Arce Catacora

Date: October 14, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with the President of El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Court, Walter René Araujo Morales

Date: October 14, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Protocolary Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council to Commemorate “The Discovery of the Americas: Encounter of Two Worlds”

Date: October 10, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera, Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza Meets with Representatives of the Legislative and Judicial Branch during his Official Visit to Mexico

Date: October 9, 2008
Place: México D.F.
Photos: OEA
OAS and Barbados Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Hold the IV Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture

Date: October 9, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin Receives a Courtesy Visit of United Kingdom’s Permanent Observer to the OAS, Ambassador Dominick Chilcott

Date: October 9, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin Meets with Grenada’s Prime Minister, Tillman Thomas

Date: October 8, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security  

Date: October 7, 2008
Place: Mexico D.F.
Photos: Alfredo Guerrero
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OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin Meets with Honduras’ President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales and Foreign Minister Ángel Edmundo Orellana Mercado

Date: October 3, 2008
Place: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Photos: OEA
The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission and the Internet Society Sign Cooperation Agreement

Date: October 2, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Boliva’s Permanent Representative Ambassaddor Reynaldo Cuadros Anaya, delivers his maiden address as OAS Permanent Council Chairman

Date: October 1, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Special Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council

Date: October 1, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin Meets with Haiti’s Minister of Health, Alex Larsen

Date: October 1, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Bolivia's Permanent Representative to the OAS, Reynaldo Cuadros Anaya, Assumes the Chairmanship of the Permanent Council

Date: October 1, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva