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138 Period of Sessions





    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Remarks by Felipe Gonzalez, IACHR Chair, at the Inaugural Session

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Topics: Inauguration of Periods of Sessions


    Remarks by Jose Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General, at the Inaugural Session

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Topics: Inauguration of Periods of Sessions


    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Case 12.221 – Jorge Omar Gutiérrez, Argentina

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Argentina

    Topics: Petitions and Cases.Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees


    Case 12.632 – Adriana Beatriz Gallo et al., Argentina

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Argentina

    Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression.Petitions and Cases


    Situation of the Prison System in Brazil

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: Associação de Advogados de Trabalhadores Rurais no Estado de Bahia (AATR).Associação dos Cristãos para a Abolição da Tortura (ACAT Brasil).Centro Feminista de Estudos e Assessoria (CFEMEA).Comissão de Direitos Humanos e Minorias (CDHM) da Câmara dos Deputados.Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (CPI) do Sistema Carcerário Brasileiro.State of Brazil.Justiça Global.Núcleo de Estudos Pela Paz e Direitos Humanos da Universidade de Brasília (UnB).Pastoral Carcerária do Brasil

    Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty


    Right to Consultation of the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Region and Implementation of Projects of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA)

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: Red Jurídica para la Defensa de la Amazonía (RAMA)

    Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples


    Public Policy on Reparations in Guatemala

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: Centro de Análisis Forense y Ciencias Aplicadas (CAFCA).State of Guatemala

    Topics: Transitional Justice


    Legislation on Forced Disappearance in Guatemala

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: Asociación de Familiares Detenidos Desaparecidos de Guatemala (FAMDEGUA).Centro de Derechos Humanos de Guatemala.Centro Internacional para Investigaciones en Derechos Humanos (CIIDH).State of Guatemala.Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM)


    Human Rights Situation in Guatemala

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: Asociación para el Estudio y la Promoción de la Seguridad en Democracia (SEDEM).Centro de Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH).Centro Internacional para Investigaciones en Derechos Humanos (CIIDH).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Guatemala.Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales de Guatemala (ICCPG).Unidad de Protección de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (UDEFEGUA)

    Topics: General Human Rights Situation


    Interstate Petition 2 - Franklin Guillermo Aisalla Molina, Ecuador v. Colombia (Video: 1st of 2 parts)

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: State of Colombia.State of Ecuador

    Topics: Petitions and Cases


    Interstate Petition 2 - Franklin Guillermo Aisalla Molina, Ecuador v. Colombia (Video: 2nd of 2 parts)

    Friday, March 19, 2010

    Participants: State of Colombia.State of Ecuador

    Topics: Petitions and Cases


    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Attacks on Journalists in Mexico

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Article XIX.Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social (CENCOS).State of Mexico

    Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


    Case12.684 - Jeremy Smith, Jamaica

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: State of Jamaica.International Human Rights Law Clinic, American University-Washington College of Law

    Topics: Petitions and Cases.Citizen Security.Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees


    General Situation of Human Rights in Colombia

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: State of Colombia

    Topics: General Human Rights Situation


    General Situation of Human Rights in Colombia

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Colombia Diversa .Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ).Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP).Corporación Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR).Corporación Jurídica Libertad (CJL).Corporación REINICIAR.Corporación Sisma Mujer.State of Colombia.Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos (FCSPP).Grupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH).MINGA

    Topics: General Human Rights Situation


    Case 10.738 – The Disappeared of the Palace of Justice, Colombia

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR).Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP).State of Colombia

    Topics: Petitions and Cases


    Process of Demobilization of Paramilitary Groups in Medellín and Enforcement of the Justice and Peace Law

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: State of Colombia.Grupo Interdisciplinario por los Derechos Humanos (GIDH)


    Situation of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women in Colombia

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: State of Colombia.Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres

    Topics: Rights of Women


    Case 10.488 - Ignacio Ellacuría et al. (The Jesuits), El Salvador

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of El Salvador.Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana (IDHUCA)

    Topics: Petitions and Cases.Most serious crimes under International Criminal Law.Transitional Justice


    Human Rights Situation of Migrants in Transit through Mexican Territory

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Albergue de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe A.C..Albergue Guadalupano de Tierra Blanca .Casa de Migrantes Hermanos en el Camino.Centro de Derechos Humanos Agustín Pro Juárez (PRODH).Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova.Centro Diocesano para los Derechos Humanos Fray Juan de Larios.Dimensión de la Pastoral de la Movilidad Humana.State of Mexico.Frontera Con Justicia A.C. y Humanidad Sin Fronteras.Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes en México.Servicio Jesuita de Jóvenes Voluntarios

    Topics: Rights of Migrants and their Families


    Situation of the Right to Health of Indigenous People in Chiapas, Mexico

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Centro de Capacitación en Ecología y Salud para Campesinos - Defensoría del Derecho a la Salud (CCESC-DDS).Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH).State of Mexico

    Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples


    Situation of Broadcasting in Latin America

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Asociación Internacional de Radiofusión

    Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


    Case 12.288 - Juan García Cruz and Santiago Sánchez Silvestre, Mexico

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: Abogados y Abogadas para la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos.Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).State of Mexico.Servicios Legales, Información y Estudios Jurídicos (SLIEJ)

    Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.Petitions and Cases


    Political Reform in Mexico

    Monday, March 22, 2010

    Participants: State of Mexico

    Topics: Political Rights


    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Use of Children in Armed Organizations and Recruitment of Minors in the Peruvian Armed Forces

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) of Peru.State of Peru

    Topics: Rights of Children


    Situation of Indigenous Communal Property in Nicaragua

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: State of Nicaragua.Gobierno Territorial Rama y Kriol (GTR-K) de la Región Autónoma Atlántico Sur

    Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples


    Response of the Judiciary to the Crimes and Events related to the Coup d'État in Honduras

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Centro de Investigación y Promoción de Derechos Humanos (CIPRODEH).Centro para la Prevensión, Tratamiento y Rehabilitación para las víctimas de Tortura y sus familiares (CPTRT).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Frente de Abogadas y Abogados en Resistencia contra el golpe de Estado.Frente de Abogados contra el golpe de Estado.Movimiento Amplio por la Dignidad y la Justicia (MADJ)

    Topics: Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees


    Situation of the Administration of Justice in Panama

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Alianza Ciudadana Pro Justicia.State of Panama.Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal (DPLF)

    Topics: Access to Justice, Judicial Guarantees


    Situation of the Right to Freedom of Expression in the Andean Region

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Centro sobre Derecho y Sociedad of Ecuador (CIDES).Consorcio Desarrollo y Justicia.Freedom House.Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL)

    Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


    Situation of the Right to Freedom of Expression, Information, and Association in Venezuela (Private Hearing)

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Asociación Civil Espacio Público.Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Colegio Nacional de Periodistas de Venezuela

    Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


    Deterioration of Institutions, Failure to Comply with Decisions of the Inter-American System, and Threats to Human Rights Defenders in Venezuela (Private Hearing)

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Acción Solidaria (ACSOL).Asociación Civil Espacio Público.Caritas de la Diócesis de Los Teques.Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Comisión de Justicia y Paz (SECORVE).Comité de Familiares Victimas de los sucesos de febrero y marzo de 1989 (COFAVIC).Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones (OVP).Programa Venezolano de Educación–Acción en Derechos Humanos (PROVEA).Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados.Vicaría de Derechos Humanos de la Arquidiócesis de Caracas

    Topics: Human Rights Defenders.Compliance with the Decisions of the Inter-American System


    Violence, Citizen Security, and Prison Conditions in Venezuela (Private Hearing)

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Acción Solidaria (ACSOL).Caritas de la Diócesis de Los Teques.Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB).Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).Comisión de Justicia y Paz (SECORVE).Comité de Familiares Victimas de los sucesos de febrero y marzo de 1989 (COFAVIC).Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones (OVP).Programa Venezolano de Educación–Acción en Derechos Humanos (PROVEA).Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados.Vicaría de Derechos Humanos de la Arquidiócesis de Caracas

    Topics: Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty.Citizen Security


    Human Rights Situation of the Ashaninka People in Peru

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Asociación Paz y Esperanza.Central Asháninka del Río Ene (CARE).Centro Amazónico de Antropología y Aplicación Práctica (CAAAP).Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) of Peru.State of Peru

    Topics: Rights of Indigenous Peoples


    Complaints of Criminalization and Repression of Social Protest in Peru

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Asociación Nacional Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH).Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH) of Peru.State of Peru

    Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


    Case 12.718 and PC 271/05 – Community of La Oroya, Perú

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA).Centro de Derechos Humanos y Ambiente (CEDHA).Earthjustice.State of Peru

    Topics: Petitions and Cases


    Discrimination against Women in the Exercise of their Economic and Social Rights in the Americas

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: UN Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

    Topics: Rights of Women.Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights


    Economic and Social Rights in Haiti following the Earthquake

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Participants: Bureau des Avocats Internationaux.Center for Human Rights and Global Justice of the New York University Law School.State of Haiti.Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.Robert F. Kennedy, Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center)

    Topics: Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights


    Situation of Freedom of Expression in Ecuador

    Tuesday, March 23, 2010

    Topics: Right to Freedom of Expression


    Friday, March 26, 2010

    Press Conference at the Conclusion of the 138 Period of Sessions

    Friday, March 26, 2010

    Topics: Press Conferences