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Remarks by Christina Cerna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Christina Cerna
Christina Cerna*
Affiliation:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (retired) (ccerna@comcast.net).
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Extract

I am pleased and honored to be chairing this panel this morning. Regrettably, Fatsah Ouguergouz of the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights had a death in the family and had to travel to Algeria and could not be with us today.

Type
Regional Human Rights Bodies as Instruments of International Law
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 113 , 2019 , pp. 89 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, March 28, 2019, by its moderator Christina Cerna of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (retired), who introduced the panelists: Elena Abrusci of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre and School of Law; Thomas Antkowiak of Seattle University School of Law; and Silvia Serrano Guzmán of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

References

1 Louise Arbour was chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR).

2 Navi Pillay served for eight years on the ICTR.

3 Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein was the first president of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. He oversaw the election of the first eighteen judges, mediated selection of the Court's first president, and led efforts to name the Court's first prosecutor.

4 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Convention Against Torture (CAT), the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OP-CAT), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICMW), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED).

5 The Optional Protocol to the Convention on Torture established the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT).

6 Venezuela also proceeded to denounce the OAS Charter, which is scheduled to take effect on April 27, 2019.

7 I/A Court H.R., Blake v. Guatemala, para. 55 (Jan. 24, 1998).

8 Id., paras. 32–33.

9 I/A Court H.R., Radilla Pacheco v. Mexico (Nov. 23, 2009).