Program

Thursday. July 7

08:00 – 09:00     Registration

09:00 – 09:45    Opening Ceremony

09:45 – 10:30    Opening Speech: Learning, challenges and the future of transitional justice in Latin America
Speaker: JUAN E. MÉNDEZ – United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture; ICTJ President Emeritus (Argentina)

10:30 – 11:00     SESSION 1: REPARATIONS. Coherence, integrity and sustainability of reparation policies.
Speaker: CRISTIÁN CORREA – Expert on reparation policies, ICTJ (Chile)

11:00 – 11:30     Panelists:
PAULO ABRÃO – President, Amnesty Commission; National Secretary of Justice (Brazil)
MARCO ANTONIO BARBOSA – President, Commission for the Dead and Disappeared, Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic (Brazil)

11:30 – 12:00     Debate
Moderator: MELILLO DINIS – Director, Law Department, Catholic University of Brasília (Brazil)

12:00 – 14:00    Lunch

14:00 – 14:30     Panelists:
REGINA MIKI – National Secretary for Public Safety (Brazil)
BENJAMIN CUÉLLAR – Director, Institute for Human Rights, IDHUCA, Central American University José Simeón Cañas (El Salvador)
NATALIA FEDERMAN – National Director for Human Rights at the Ministry of Security (Argentina)

15:00 – 15:30     Debate
Moderator: JOSÉ CARLOS MOREIRA DA SILVA FILHO, Professor, Law Department, Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS (Brazil)

15:30 – 16:00    SESSION 3: RIGHT TO TRUTH. The Right to Truth and the role of Truth Commissions
Speaker: PRISCILLA HAYNER, Truth Commissions Expert (United States)

16:00 – 16:30    Panelists:
ELIZABETH LIRA – Professor, Alberto Hurtado University (Chile)
EDSON TELES – Professor, Philosophy Department, UNIFESP (Brazil)
BELISÁRIO DOS SANTOS JUNIOR – President, Latin American Lawyers Association for the Defense of Human Rights (Brazil)

16:30 – 16:45    Coffee break

16:45 – 17:15    Debate
Moderator: SUELI BELLATO – Vice President of the Amnesty Commission (Brazil)

17:15 – 18:00    Closing remarks
Speaker: MARCELO TORELLY – General Coordinator for Historical Memory of the Amnesty Commission (Brazil)

Friday, July 8
 
09:00 – 09:30    Opening remarks
Speaker: EDUARDO GONZÁLEZ – Director, Truth and Memory Program, ICTJ (Peru)

09:30 – 10:00    SESSION 4: JUSTICE. Amnesty Laws and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The impact of international jurisprudence on internal persecutions regarding human rights violations
Speaker: VICTOR PRADO SALDARRIAGA – Justice, Supreme Court of Peru (Peru)

10:00 – 10:30     Panelists:
GUSTAVO GALLÓN – Director, Colombian Commission of Jurists (Colombia)
GILDA PEREIRA CARVALHO – Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Federal Attorney for Citizens’ Rights of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (Brazil)
DEISY VENTURA – Professor, Institute for International Relations, University of São Paulo – USP, Idejust Coordinator (Brazil)

10:30 – 11:00    Debate
Moderator: MARLON WEICHERT – Attorney of the Republic (Brazil)

11:00 – 11:30     Session 5: ACCESS TO INFORMATION. The State’s obligation to preserve and disseminate information on human rights violations
Speaker: CATALINA BOTERO – Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech, OAS (Colombia)

11:30 – 12:00    Panelists:
GUSTAVO MEOÑO – Director, Project for the Recovery of the Archives of the national Police of Guatemala (Guatemala)
JAIME ANTUNES – Director, National Archives (Brazil)

12:00 – 12:30    Debate
Moderator: LUCIANA GARCIA, Coordinator of the Witness Protection Program of the Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic (Brazil)

12:30 – 14:30    Lunch

14:30 – 15:00    SESSION 6: THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE. The participation of groups of victims and other civil society institutions in the design and implementation of transitional justice.
SPEAKER: JAVIER CIURLIZZA – Director, Latin American and Caribbean Program, International Crisis Group (Colombia)

15:00 – 15:30    Panelists:
CRISTIÁN CORREA – Reparation policies expert, ICTJ (Chile)
MAURICE POLITI – Director, Nucleus for the Preservation of Political Memory (Brazil)
IARA XAVIER – Member of the Commission for the Dead and Disappeared (Brazil)

15:30 – 16:00    Debate
Moderator: BEATRIZ AFFONSO – Director, Brazil Program, CEJIL (Brazil)

16:00 – 17:00    CLOSING SPEECH: Transitional justice as an ethical and legal obligation of the State in the identification of severe human rights violations
SPEAKER: EDUARDO GONZÁLEZ – Director, Truth and Memory Program, ICTJ (Peru)