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Draft Programme
WORKSHOP OF REGIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL COURTS
Dates: 20-21 October 2015
Venue: Seminar Room, European Court for Human Rights, Strasbourg
TUESDAY 20 October 2015
9:00 - 9:30
Registration of Participants
9:30 -10:00
Opening Remarks and Introduction
H.E. Dean Spielmann, President, European
Court for Human Rights (ECHR)
Mr. Christos Giakoumopoulos, Director,
Directorate of Human Rights , Council of Europe
(CoE)
OHCHR Statement
Introduction of Participants
10:00 – 11:30
Session 1: Over view of regional and subregional mechanisms; access and
relationship between courts and
commissions; existing cooperation with
other mechanisms (10 mins. each).
Panellists:
Chair: Session 1 and 2
Mr. Vladlen Stefanov,
OHCHR
Rapporteurs:
Ms. Fiona Adolu, OHCHR
Ms. Claudia Gerez
Czitrom, OHCHR
African Human Rights System:
Hon. Justice Augustino Ramadhani, African
Court on Human and Peoples Rights (ACrtHPR)
Hon. Reine Alapini-Gansou, African
Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
(ACHPR)
Hon. Justice Isaac Lenaola, East African
Court of Justice (EACJ)
Hon. Justice Chijioke Nwoke, Economic
Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS)
Court
Americas Human Rights System
Judge Roberto De Figueiredo Caldas, Inter
American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
(TBC)
Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Byron, Caribbean Court
of Justice (CCJ)
European human rights system
Judge Vincent De Gaetano, European Court
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for Human Rights (ECHR)
Ms. Irène Kitsou-Milonas, Human Rights
Intergovernmental Cooperation Division,
Council of Europe(CoE)
Mr. Giancarlo Cardinale, Office of the
Commmissioner for Human Rights, CoE.
Discussion
11: 30 - 11:45
11:45– 12: 00
Coffee break
Session 2:
Overview of UN human rights
mechanisms- focus on complaints
handling/petitions
Speaker: Ms. Yasmine Hadjoudj, OHCHR
Petitions Section
Discussion
12:00 – 13:00
Session 3:
a) Judicial Application and
interpretation of international/regional
human rights law and norms
Panellists:
Chair Session 3 a)
Judge Işil Karakaş,
ECHR
Rapporteur :
Ms. Liza Sekaggya
OHCHR
Judge Roberto De Figueiredo Caldas, IACHR
Hon. Justice Augustino Ramadhani,
ACrtHPR
Hon. Justice Isaac Lenaola, EACJ
Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Byron, Caribbean Court
of Justice
Judge Helena Jäderblom, ECHR
The limits of Persona Jurisdiction
Presenter : Hon. Justice Chijioke Nwoke,
ECOWAS Court
Discussion
13.00-14.30
14:30 – 15:10
Lunch break
b) Judicial Application and interpretation of
international/regional human rights law and
norms (continued)
Panellists:
Chair Session 3 b)
Hon Justice Ramadhani
Augustiono, ACtHR
Rapportuer:
Mr Michael Ferguson,
OHCHR
Mr. Waleed Sadi, UN Committee for Economic
Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Ms. Felice Gaer Baran, UN Committee Against
Torture (CAT)
Ms. Tina Gewis, OSCE/ODIHR
Discussion
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15:10 – 15:30
Session 4: a) Vulnerable groups :access to
justice, jurisprudence and procedure
Chair Session 4 a) and b)
Judge Roberto De
Figueiredo Caldas,
IACtHR
Presenter:
Rapporteur :
Ms. Hannah Wu, OHCHR
Ms. Yoko Hayashi, UN Committee Against the
Discrimination of Woman (CEDAW)
Panellist: Ms.Carolina Lasén Diaz, Gender
Equality Unit, Council of Europe
Discussion
15:30- 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45- 16.20
b) Judicial stereotyping in cases of sexual
and gender-based violence
Presenter: Ms. Adwoa Kufuor, OHCHR Gender Unit
Panellists: Ms. Alda Facio, UN Working group on
Discrimination Against women
Ms. Raluca Popa, Gender Equality Unit,
Council of Europe
Discussion
16:20 - 17:30
Chair Session 5
Judge Krzysztof
Wojtyczek, ECHR
Rapporteur :
Katrina Hodsona,
OHCHR
Session 5: Application and interpretation of
international/regional human rights law and
norms by national courts, tribunals, NHRIs
and civil society
Panellists
Judge Lydia Mugambe, High Court of Uganda
Dr. Bem Reuben Angwe, Human Rights
Commission of Nigeria
Ms. Tina Gewis, OSCE/ODIHR
Mr. Ibrahima Kane, Open Society Foundation
Mr. François Georges Nyeck, Association
international femmes et population
Discussion
WEDNESDAY 21
October 2015
08:30 - 11:45
Public Hearing (Public Hearing Room)
11:45- 12:15
Debriefing on Hutchinson case (Seminar
room)
Presenter: Mr. Paul Harvey, Lawyer, ECHR
Registry
12:15 - 14:00
Lunch break
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14.00- 14:30
Session 6: a) Implementation of
decisions of international , regional
and sub-regional courts, and
recommendations of UN bodies:
remedies and follow up
Chair Session 6 a) and b)
Hon. Reine AlapiniGansou, ACHPR
Presenter: Dr. Rachel Murray, Bristol
University, UK
Rapporteur :
Mr. Michael Ferguson,
OHCHR
Panellist: Mr. Ozgür Derman, Department for
the Execution of Judgments, Council of Europe
Discussion
14:30 - 15:15
b) Information management, research
and data bases
Presenters:
Mr. John Hunter, IT Department, Registry,
ECHR
Ms. Lisa Reinsberg, International Justice
Resource Centre , USA
Discussion
15:15 - 16:15
Session 7: The way forward:
Identifying key areas of cooperation
and learning
Rapporteurs of Session 1-6 provide
reports from different panels.
Session 1, 2 : Ms. Fiona Adolu and Ms.
Claudia Gerez Czitrom
Session 3 a) : Ms. Liza Sekaggya
Session 3 b): Mr. Michael Ferguson
Chair Session 7
Amb. Istvan Lakatos,CoE
Rapporteur :
Ms. Liza Sekaggya
Session 4a) , b): Ms. Hannah Wu
Session 5 : Ms. Katrina Hodsona
Session 6: Mr. Michael Ferguson
Discussion
Closing Ceremony
16.15-16.30
16.45
Mr. Vladlen Stefanov, OHCHR
Mr. Roderick Liddell, ECHR
Cocktail reception (ECHR: Hearing Room 2)