15th eu-ngo human rights forum (5- 6 december 2013) on accountability
15th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum (5-6 December 2013) on Accountability DRAFT AGENDA (A) Fight against impunity (B) Economic Social Cultural Rights / Human Rights Defenders Opening session Chairs: EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Mr. Stavros Lambrinidis Transitional Justice: UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Mr Pablo de Greiff (tbc) ICC: ICC Chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda (tbc) ESCRs: UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinkingand sanitation Catarina de Albuquerque (tbc) ESCR accountability: Ramón Cadena Rámila – Director ICJ Central America Regional Office on Guatemala Human Rights Defender's perspective: Maria Ubilerma Sanabria Lopez, Colombia Introduction to the objectives and policy updates by the EU Introduction to the objectives and policy updates by the EU
Representatives of the European External Action Service and the European
Representatives of European External Action Service and the European Commission
The EU approach to economic, social and cultural rights
The EU policy on Transitional Justice: outline of the state of play
The EU strategy on corporate social responsibility
The principle of complementarity and its implementation
Session A.1 Session B.1 Addressing widespread impunity and gross human rights violations Remedies for ESCRs Moderator: Cecile Aptel (UN OHCHR)
Moderator: Christian Courtis (UN OHCHR TBC)
Bosnia Herzegovina: Prof Zoran Pajic, King’s College
Gayle Rankin, First Peoples Disability Network, Australia
Cote Ivoire:Drissa Traoré, head of movement ivorien des droits
Lilian Chenwi, Member of the Steering Committee of the OP-ICESCR coalition,
Guatemala: Juan Fransico Soto (Executive Director of CALDH Guatemala)
Session A.2 Session B.2: Working Groups The Role of Regional Mechanisms in Fighting Impunity Moderator: Representative of European External Action Service
Trade and investment Land issues Moderator : Gaëlle Dusepulchre, FIDH
Moderator : Florence Kroff (FIAN Belgium)
Brigitte Reisenberger (FIAN Austria) on
Representative of the African Union:
Asia, Evelyn Serrano, Asia Forum for Human Rights and Development
Pascal Erard, Comité Français pour
Session A.3 Session B.3: Working Groups meet in Joint session Challenges to Promoting Justice Confrontation or Collaboration Facilitator: Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Timing and sequencing of a Identifying the Right Strategies transitional justice strategy (A) Fight against impunity (B) ESCRs/HRDs Session A.4 Session B.4 on Human Rights Defenders Promoting a victim-centered approach to justice focusing on victim's Roundtable: participation, including of vulnerable groups National public policies and protection Criminalisation of HRDs in ESCR Moderator: Yasmin Sooka (Executive Director Foundation for Human Rights, mechanisms for HRDs
Dr Mariana Lagos, Argentine Team of Psychosocial Work and Research
Challenges linked to protecting HRDs
Jacqueline Moudeïna, Chadian lawyer representing victims in Hissan
Paola Limon, CEJIL, Costa Rica Dolores Infante, UNSR HRDs
Session A.5: Working Groups, continued Session B.5: Corporate accountability: State & enterprises roles Moderator : MEP Judith Sargentini (TBC)
Institutional reforms Reparations:
overview accountability : ECCJ chair Philipp Gregor
access to justice : Jayshree Satpute, Delhi-based lawyer with experience
Moderator (tbc) Moderator: Carla Ferstman (Redress
litigating at Supreme Court and High Court level
On OECD contact point : Alicia Granda, CEDH, Ecuador or Emmanuel Umpala,
Alexander Mayer-Rieckh (vetting Cristian Correa, ICTJ Reparations
Both Working Groups meet to exchange
inc. possibility for interactive lunch between EU officials and civil society representatives
Closing Session on the EU- NGO Forum on Accountability
Chair Human Rights and Democracy Network
Horizontal rapporteur on Fight against impunity:
Chair of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights of the European Parliament: Barbara Lochbihler (tbc)
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