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Discussion Seminar on the Draft Guiding Principles for the Search of Missing Persons, approved by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance in November 2018

Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Bogotá Office, Colombia, Externado University, in partnership with SwissPeace Place: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Cl. 37 No. 15-40, Bogotá) Date: 12 February 2019

Preliminary program
TimeTitleSpeakers

8am to 8:30am

Registration and establishment of working groups

 

8:30am to 8:45am

Welcome

Florian Huber: Fundación Heinrich Böll

María Clara Galvis Patiño: Universidad Externado de Colombia

8:45am to 9am

Presentation of the seminar work program

Rainer Huhle: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance

María Clara Galvis Patiño: UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance

9am to 9:30am

Rapporteurship on the comments received

Luisa Franco: Swiss Peace

9:30am to 10:10am

Presentation by the Inter-American Court and the IACHR on obstacles and good practices in the search for disappeared persons

Amelia Brenes: Corte IDH

Omar Gómez: Unidad de Verdad, Justicia y Reparación de la CIDH

10:10am to 10:30am

Coffee

 

10:30am to12:30pm

Work in groups

 
 

Lunch

 

2pm to 5pm

Plenary:

Group report
Articulation of comments
Proposal of observations

Event info

This event has ended

Tuesday 12 February

8am to 5pm

Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Bogotá Office, Colombia, Externado University, in partnership with SwissPeace Place: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Cl. 37 No. 15-40, Bogotá)