2023 Mexico Conference Agenda

International Fair Trial Day Conference and the Ebru Timtik Award Ceremony*

14 June 2023 / Mexico City, Mexico

10:00 – 18:00 CST

In-Person & Online Event 

(Simultaneous interpretation Spanish and English provided)

 

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

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 Rights  

–          Judge 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 University 

–          Pedro Salazar, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM 

–      Laurence 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 Abogadoz

–          Victorico Gálvez Pérez, Lawyer, HRC Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas 

–          Valentina Rosendo Cantú, Human Rights Defender, Indigenous Me’phaa community, State of Guerrero

–          Martha 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 Derecho 

–          Tita Radilla, Vice-president, Association of Relatives of the DetainedDisappeared 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 artist 

–          Representative of the Ebru Timtik Award Selection Committee

–          Awardee(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 (DSFAS); 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)