Partie I / Part I : Forum : Justice : Les nouveaux
défis - Justice : New Challenges
Shirin Ebadi, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Abdou Diouf, Françoise Tulkens*: these are
a few names among the list of key personalities and renowned national and
international experts participating in the FIDH Forum alongside human rights
defenders from the 155 FIDH member organisations throughout the world. This
forum, entitled “JUSTICE: New Challenges – the Right to an Effective Remedy
before an Independent Tribunal”, will take place in Yerevan (Armenia) from 6th
to 8th April 2010.
“This forum will represent a unique opportunity for debate and exchange of
experiences and analysis relating to the fight against impunity, access to
justice for victims of human rights violations and prevention of the most
serious crimes”, declared Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH President. “Bringing together
so many personalities around this issue shortly before the commemoration of the
first genocide of the 20th century, takes on a strong symbolic importance in
our eyes, in particular in the context of continued dialogue between Turkey and
Armenia”, she explained.
This forum, organised in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (CSI),
FIDH member organisation in Armenia, within the framework of the 37th FIDH
Congress, will indeed constitute an opportunity to work on the different
remedies available to victims of human rights violations in the course of their
struggle for truth, justice and reparations on a national, regional and
international level, and to look into the issue of the prevention of
international crimes, on the basis of the exchange of experiences between
participating NGOs from every continent. For further information :
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/ArmenieDosPress-09.pdf
- Respectively, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court, Secretary-General of the of La Francophonie, and
Judge and Vice president of the European Court of Human Rights.
Conférence de presse - Press Conference
Cérémonie d’ouverture - Opening Ceremony
Patrick
Baudouin, président d’honneur de la FIDH
Artak Kirakosyan, Chairman of the Board, Civil Society Institute
Interviews