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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 sub-regional mechanisms; access and relationship between courts and commissions; existing cooperation with other mechanisms (10 mins. each).
Chair: Session 1 and 2
Mr. Vladlen Stefanov, OHCHR
Rapporteurs:
Ms. Fiona Adolu, OHCHR
Ms. Claudia Gerez Czitrom, OHCHR / Panellists:
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 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 / Coffee break
11:45– 12: 00 / 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
Chair Session 3 a)
Judge Işil Karakaş, ECHR
Rapporteur :
Ms. Liza Sekaggya OHCHR / Panellists:
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 / Lunch break
14:30 – 15:10 / b) Judicial Application and interpretation of international/regional human rights law and norms (continued)
Chair Session 3 b)
Hon Justice Ramadhani Augustiono, ACtHR
Rapportuer:
Mr Michael Ferguson, OHCHR / Panellists:
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
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
Rapporteur :
Ms. Hannah Wu, OHCHR / Presenter:
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 / Session 5: Application and interpretation of international/regional human rights law and norms by national courts, tribunals, NHRIs and civil society
Chair Session 5
Judge Krzysztof Wojtyczek, ECHR
Rapporteur :
Katrina Hodsona,
OHCHR / 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
08:30 - 11:45
11:45- 12:15 / October 2015
Public Hearing (Public Hearing Room)
Debriefing on Hutchinson case (Seminar room)
Presenter: Mr. Paul Harvey, Lawyer, ECHR Registry
12:15 - 14:00 / Lunch break
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 Alapini-Gansou, ACHPR
Rapporteur :
Mr. Michael Ferguson, OHCHR / Presenter: Dr. Rachel Murray, Bristol University, UK
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
Chair Session 7
Amb. Istvan Lakatos,CoE
Rapporteur :
Ms. Liza Sekaggya / 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
Session 4a) , b): Ms. Hannah Wu
Session 5 : Ms. Katrina Hodsona
Session 6: Mr. Michael Ferguson
Discussion
16.15-16.30 / Closing Ceremony
Mr. Vladlen Stefanov, OHCHR
Mr. Roderick Liddell, ECHR

16.45 Cocktail reception (ECHR: Hearing Room 2)