Invitation
In-Person & Online Event
(Simultaneous interpretation Spanish and English provided)
10:00 – 18:00 CST
Venue: Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM
Circuito, Mario de La Cueva s/n, C.U., Coyoacán
04510 Mexico City, Mexico
Room: Dr. Guillermo Floris Margadant
Registration for in-person and online participation: HERE
Download the programme: in English with speakers bios – in French – in Spanish
Download the Award Artwork
Agenda
| 10:00 -10:20 | Opening Remarks Carolina Villadiego Burbano, Latin America Team Leader, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)Arturo Pueblita Fernández, President, Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México (INCAM)Mónica González Contró, Director, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (UNAM) |
| 10:20 -10:50 | Moderator Cath Kent, Programme Lawyer, International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) Keynote Speeches Commissioner Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, Inter-American Commission of Human RightsJudge Ricardo Perez Manrique, President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (video message) |
| – Margaret Satterthwaite, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers (video message) | |
| 10:50 – 11:50 | Setting the Scene: Systemic Fair Trial Rights Concerns in Mexico Moderator: Oscar Cruz Barney, President, Mexican National Committee, International Association of Lawyers (UIA) Speakers: José Luis Caballero, ICJ Commissioner, Professor at the Iberoamericana UniversityPedro Salazar, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAMLaurence Pantin, Program Coordinator for Transparency in Justice and Special Projects, México Evalúa |
| 11.50 – 12.10 | Coffee Break |
| 12:10-13:40 | From Rights to Justice: Unveiling the Interplay Between Human Rights and Due Process in Mexico Moderator: Barbara Spinelli, Co-president, European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights (ELDH) Speakers: Roberto López Miguel, Lawyer, Colectivo Los Otros AbogadozVictorico Gálvez Pérez, Lawyer, HRC Fray Bartolomé de Las CasasValentina Rosendo Cantú, Human Rights Defender, Indigenous Me’phaa community, State of GuerreroMartha Figueroa Mier, Lawyer, Women’s rights defender, Chiapas |
| 13:40-14:40 | Lunch break |
| 14:40 – 16:10 | Seeking Accountability: Responses to Enforced Disappearances and Summary Executions Moderator: Carolina Villadiego Burbano, Latin America Team Leader, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Speakers: Ana Lorena Delgadillo Pérez, Executive Director, Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de DerechoTita Radilla, Vice-president, Association of Relatives of the Detained- Disappeared in Mexico (AFADEM)Santiago Aguirre, Director, Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (Centro ProDH) |
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Coffee Break |
| 16:40 -17.45 | Ebru Timtik Award Ceremony Moderator: Eleonora Scala, Programme Coordinator, International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) Speakers: Diego García Sayán, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Şerife Ceren Uysal, Co-secretary General of European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights (ELDH), Executive Member of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) Mirta Kupferminc, Independent multidisciplinary artistRepresentative of the Ebru Timtik Award Selection CommitteeAwardee(s) |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Closing – Ayşe Bingöl Demir, European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights (ELDH), Director of the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project |
*The Organising Committee of the 2023 International Fair Trial Day and Ebru Timtik Award consists of Bologna Bar Association; Défense Sans Frontière Avocats Solidaires (DSF- AS); European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH); European Bars Federation (FBE); European Democratic Lawyers (EDL-AED); French
National Bar Council (CNB); International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL); Institute for the Rule of Law of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA-IROL); International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI); International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); Italian National Bar Council (CNF); Law Society of England and Wales, Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L); Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD); Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD); and Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein e. V. (RAV).
The Organising Committee would like to thank the following local bar associations for their support:
Ilustre Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México (INCAM) Asociación Nacional de Abogados de Empresa (ANADE) Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, A.C. (BMA) Consejo General de la Abogacía Mexicana (CGAM)