International Seminar

Bar Human Rights Committee / Alliance for Lawyers at Risk

Wednesday 04th July 2012, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Doughty Street Chambers
54 Doughty Street
London WC1N 2LS

Speakers:

Juan Carlos Gutierrez, Mexican Lawyer, Fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, Human Rights Defenders Scheme, York University. Currently, General Director of the Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos. 

Sylvia Vasquez, lawyer at the Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos.

Schona Jolly, Barrister at Cloisters and BHRC Executive Committee Member

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The Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights are the two main institutions designed specifically for human rights protection within the Organisation of American States (OAS).

Since its creation, the Inter-American jurisdiction has played a prominent role in upholding the rule of law and protecting human rights in countries of the Latin American region with both democratic and authoritarian regimes.

Speakers at the seminar will reflect on the significance of this supranational subsidiary body in delivering justice and reparations for human rights abuses when national justice systems fail to do so.

Speakers will also comment upon some of the most cutting-edge jurisprudence and standards set so far, particularly, but not exclusively, in relation to indigenous peoples and land rights.

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1.5 CPD available to barristers (in application)

Event is free and open to the public, but places are limited - please RSVP to Ms Illari Aragon, Project Coordinator at coordination@barhumanrights.org.uk

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