DRAFT ORDER OF BUSINESS
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE PERMANENT COUNCILTO COMMEMORATE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Place: Simón Bolívar Room
Adoption of the order of business (CP/OD-2527/24)
Commemoration of Human Rights Day
Remarks by:
Commissioner Roberta Clarke, President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Judge Nancy Hernández López, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Mrs. Maricarmen Plata, Secretary for Access to Rights and Equity, OAS General Secretariat
Recognition of the work of Justices Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot and Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto, who will be concluding their judgeships on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Remarks by:
Judge Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor Poisot
Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto
Interventions by member states
The situation of persons deprived of liberty for political reasons in the Americas: memory and present (CP/INF. 10410/24)
Presentations by:
Mr. Juan Méndez, former person deprived of liberty for political reasons in Argentina, Human Rights Scholar, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Ms. Dora María Téllez, former person deprived of liberty for political reasons in Nicaragua
Mr. José Carlos Zamora, son of Mr. José Rubén Zamora, Journalist and Founder of “El Periódico” in Guatemala
Interventions by member states
