THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY AND SECURITY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
EXPERT MEETING - GENEVA – GIUSEPPE MOTTA 48 – RS-06
Agenda
TUESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2015
9:30
10:00
Registration
Opening
Introduction of facilitators and participants
Meeting objectives, agenda and methodology
Juan Ignacio Perez Bello
OHCHR
Simon Walker
Chief
Civil, Political, Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights Section
Human Rights Treaties Division
Facundo Chavez Penillas
OHCHR’s Human Rights &
Disability Advisor
10:30
11:30
11:45
The right to liberty and security of person in the
international legal framework
The CRPD contribution
Maria Soledad Cisternas
Chair
Committee on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities
Coffee break
Activity (World café): CRPD innovations on the ICCPR
Facundo Chavez Penillas
OHCHR’s Human Rights &
Disability Advisor
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Recap: True or False
Facundo Chavez Penillas
OHCHR’s Human Rights &
Disability Advisor
14:15
The right to liberty and security of person:
The right to equal recognition before the law, legal
capacity and free and informed consent
Theresia Degener
CRPD Committee
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Facundo Chavez Penillas
OHCHR’s Human Rights &
Disability Advisor
14:45
World café
Legal capacity implementation
15:45
Coffee break
16:00
The right to liberty and security of person:
Persons with disabilities in the criminal process
Carlos Ríos Espinosa
Former member of the CRPD
Committee
16:45
Identifying gaps – Timeline
Where are persons with disabilities excluded from the
criminal process?
Alberto Vásquez Encalada
Researcher on Disability
17:30
Wrap-up
Facundo Chavez Penillas
WEDNESDAY 9 DECEMBER 2014
10:00
Recap
Agenda of the day
Catalina Devandas Aguilar
Special Rapporteur on the
Rights of Persons with
Disabilities
Simon Walker
Chief
Civil, Political, Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights Section
Human Rights Treaties Division
10:15
The right to liberty and security of persons with
disabilities:
Competence to stand trial
Interactive presentation
Eilionoir Flynn
NIU Galway
10:40
The right to liberty and security of person:
Criminal liability: insanity defense, diminished
responsibility, inimputability
Interactive presentation
Tina Minkowitz
WNUSP/IDA
11:05
Activity – Topic to discuss
Juan Ignacio Perez Bello
11:15
Coffee break
11:30
Topic to discuss: collective debriefing
5 minutes per group
Juan Ignacio Perez Bello
11:45
The right to liberty and security of persons with
disabilities:
Security measures, danger to self and others &
Florencia Hegglin
Public Defender and Criminal
Law Professor
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predictability
Interactive presentation
Facundo Chavez Penillas
OHCHR’s Human Rights &
Disability Advisor
12:15
Activity: World Café
13:15
Lunch
14:15
Recap
Alberto Vasquez Encalada
Researcher on Disability
14:20
The right to liberty and security of person:
Restorative justice, rethinking mens rea
Interactive presentation
Jorge Araya
Secretariat
CRPD Committee
14:40
The way forward: debate
Simon Walker
15:30
Coffee break
15:45
Identify activities for bridging the gaps
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Parking lot
17:45
Closing
Simon Walker
Certificates will be delivered upon request electronically
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