Entries to this calendar include events open to the public, legislative reporting deadlines, and events of significance to U.S. security relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Event: 133 Period of Sessions, OAS Inter-American Human Rights Commission

Time: 
10/27/2008 - 09:00 - 10/27/2008 - 21:00

From http://www.iachr.org/Comunicados/English/2008/hearings133eng.htm

Monday, October 27, 2008 – Room A

The public hearings held in this room will be webcast live on the OAS Web site, www.oas.org.

The videos will also be available for viewing later on the OAS and IACHR Web sites.

The audio recordings will be available on the IACHR site, www.iachr.org.

9:00 – 10:00

Case 12.569 – Quilombolas communities of Alcántara, Brazil

Justiça Global / Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos / Centro de Cultura Negra do Maranhão / Associação das Comunidades Negras Rurais Quilombolas do Maranhão / Federação dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura do Estado do Maranhão / Global Exchange / Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos / Movimento dos Atingidos pela Base Espacial

Government of Brazil

10:15 – 11:15

Case 12.479 – José Airton Honorato et al. (Castelinho), Brasil

Fundaçao Interamericana de Direitos Humanos (FIDDH)

Government of Brazil

11:30 – 12:30

Amnesty Law as obstacle to justice in Brazil

Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Government of Brazil

2:00 – 3:00

Case 12.277 – Fazenda Ubá, Brazil

Sociedade Paraense de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos / Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Government of Brazil

3:15 – 4:15

Freedom of expression and political rights in Nicaragua

Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH) / Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Government of Nicaragua

4:30 – 5:30

Prison conditions of persons deprived of liberty on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast

Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH)

Government of Nicaragua

5:45 – 6:30

Barriers to equal access to justice in Latin America

Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal / Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) / Centro de Estudios de Justicia y Participación (CEJIP) / Centro de Derechos Humanos y Asesoría a Pueblos Indígenas (CEDHAPI)

Monday, October 27, 2008 – Room B

These hearings will not be webcast.

The audio recordings will be available on the IACHR Web site, www.iachr.org.

9:00 – 10:00

Case 12.519 – Leopoldo García Lucero, Chile

The Redress Trust (REDRESS)

Government of Chile

10:15 – 11:15

Case 12.624 – Carlos Baraona Bray, Chile

Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Diego Portales

Government of Chile

11:30 – 12:30

Case 12.053 – Maya communities of the Toledo District, Belize

University of Arizona College of Law

Government of Belize

3:00 – 4:00

Situation of violence and discrimination against women in Haiti

Collectif de Notables de Cité Soleil

Government of Haiti

4:15 – 5:15

The justice system and impunity in Haiti

Groupe d´Action pour la Defense des Droits Humains

Government of Haiti

5:30 - 6:30

Situation of persons deprived of liberty in prisons and mental hospitals in Argentina

Grupo de Mujeres de la Argentina - Foro de VIH Mujeres y Familia

Government of Argentina

  • By Adam Isacson at 10/15/2008 - 15:49
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Event: Bolivia and the campaign to extradite Goni

Time: 
10/27/2008 - 12:00 - 10/27/2008 - 13:30

Bolivia and the campaign to extradite Goni

Brown bag presentation
Monday, October 27
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
 
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
415 Michigan Avenue, N.E.
Providence Hall wing, north entrance

 

In
October 2003, then Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozado
(“Goni”) ordered the military to stop protesters who were demonstrating
against the government’s plans to sell Bolivia’s natural gas to the
U.S. Over 400 people were injured and 67 were killed. Days later, Goni
fled to the U.S., where he remains today, until now avoiding extradition to stand trial.

On Monday, October 27, come hear about this case from four Bolivians who are active in the efforts to extradite Goni. Hear why the lawsuit is so important to the Bolivian people and how you can help to bring Goni and two of his former ministers to justice.
 
For more information/directions, contact Dave Kane at 202-832-1780; dkane@maryknoll.org

  • By intern at 10/24/2008 - 10:00
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Event: Discussion with PCN on Situation of Afro-Colombian Communities

Time: 
10/27/2008 - 12:30 - 10/27/2008 - 02:00

The
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Association for
Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians USA invite you to participate in a
brownbag discussion
 
 with
 
Jose Santos Cabezas Caicedo
National Coordinating Committee of the Black Communities Process (PCN) in Colombia
 
Monday, October 27th
12:30pm-2:00pm
Washington Office on Latin America
1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC, 20009
 
Founded in 1993, the PCN is
an umbrella organization of grassroots Afro-Colombian organizations
that seek to defend the territorial, cultural and human rights of
Afro-Colombians. PCN is a prominent Afro-Colombian organization whose
founders helped with the formulation and passage of Law
70 in 1993, the law of the Black Communities, which granted collective
land titles to Afro-Colombians. Mr. Santos is in town for the
Inter-American Commission Hearings on Human Rights.
 
Mr.
Santos will present on the recent wave of assassinations, forced
displacements, and threats faced by Afro-Colombian leaders and
communities inBuenaventura port city (Valle del Cauca),
Guapí and Timbiquí Cauca and Tumaco (Nariño). Also, he will discuss how
the aerial fumigation program is devastating Afro-Colombian communities
in Nariño and Cauca. Santos will
present on the Afro-Colombian community councils’ efforts to stop coca
and oil palm cultivation from spreading in their territories, the
councils’ alternative development proposals and their efforts to
organize in order to resist internal displacement.  He will discuss why
168 Afro-Colombian community councils and grassroots groups believe
that the proposed US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement will lead to a
deterioration of Afro-Colombian land rights.  Lastly, Santos will speak on the tense situation of the sugarcane workers inColombia who have been on strike since September 15th to protest their poor labor conditions in Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Risaralda.
 
The presentation will be in Spanish with English translation.
 
We look forward to your participation in this discussion. Please RSVP to Rachel Robb at rrobb@wola.org or (202) 797-2171 by October 24th at noon if you plan to attend.

  • By intern at 10/21/2008 - 12:54