Audio Gallery
Day 1
Opening plenary: Our sisters, ourselves: Defending human rights
defenders
Mary Jane Real: Welcome
words
Nimalka Fernando, Women´s
Alliance for Peace and Democracy/IMARD, Sri Lanka: Welcome Remarks
Hina Jilani,
UN Special Representative to the Secretary General on Human Rights Defenders:
Keynote Address- Defending Women, Defending Rights
Charlotte Bunch, Center for
Women´s Global Leadership, USA: Introduction to the WHRD Campaign and
International Consultation
Plenary
2: Panel Presentation on Problems and Obstacles Faced by WHRDs
Ruth del Valle, Movimiento Nacional de Derechos Humanos,Guatemala
(spanish and english)
Marieme Helie
Lucas, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, France/Algeria: Fundamentalisms and
WHRDs
Nafisa Faye, Siggil Jiggil, Senegal
Cynthia Rothschild,
CWGL/IGLHRC, USA: Sexuality-based attacks against WHRDs
Day 2
Plenary
Session 4: Panel Presentation on Protecting Rights, Preventing Abuses: UN and
Governmental Mechanisms for the protection of WHRDs
Mary Jane Real, WHRDs Campaign:
Summary of the first day.
Julie de Rivero,
International Service for Human Rights, Switzerland: UN and other
international/regional mechanisms on WHRDs
Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary
Executions: Using and accessing the UN Special Raporteur
mechanism for the protection of WHRDs
Kamala Chandrakirana,
Kommas Perempuan,
Indonesia: Role of national human rights institutions in the protection of
WHRDs
Luz Marina Monzón, Colombian Commision of
Jurists, Colombia: Accessing governmental and non-governmental mechanisms
for the protection of WHRDs (spanish and english)
Plenary
Session 5: Panel Presentation on NGO Experiences in Accessing Mechanisms and
Tools for the Protection of WHRDs
Hina Jilani:
Farewell Words
Zazi Sadou,
Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Algeria: Strategies of a network in
supporting WHRD at risk (french
and English)
Lohana Berkins,
Association for the Struggle for Transgender Identity, Argetina:
Strategies of LGBT groups to counter sexuality-based attacks against
WHRDs. (Spanish and English)
Lepa Mladjenovic,
Autonomous Women´s Center Against Sexual Violence, Serbia and Montenegro: Psychological
well-being and protection for WHRDs
Questions and
comments
Day 3
Plenary
Session 7: Panel Presentation Justice for WHRDs and Accountabilidy
for Violations and abuses
Sunila Abeyseekera,
WHRD-ICC: Summary of the second day
Aruna Mamei,
Amnesty International, Sierra Leone: Accountability for violations by the
State against WHRDs
Susana Fried,
International Gay and LesbianHuman Rights
Commission, USA: Accountability for obstacles face by WHRDs in the
family/community
Silvia Juliá, Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir, Argentina: Accountability for violations
against WHRDs by fundamentalist forces (Spanish
and English)
Miloon Kothari, UN Special
Rapporteur on Adequate Housing: WHRDs and
Accountability for violations by state and non-state actors in the context of
neoliberal globalization
Vahida Nainar,
Gender Justice Initiative, India: WHRDs and Accountability for violations
by state and non-state actors under the International Criminal Court Statute
Questions and
comments
Closing
Plenary: Moving Forward together: Future collaborations on WHRDs
Charlotte Bunch, Introduction
Rapporteurs
Radhia Nasraoui,
Túnez: Security and protection group. (french and english)
Lidia Cacho,
México: Gender violence and femicide group (Spanish and english)
Nafisa Saye,
Senegal: Networking group (french
and english)
Donna Ann Marie,
Jamaica: Sexual and reproductive rights group.
Archi Pyati,
USA and Adriana Cortés,
Colombia: International
accountability and neoliberal globalization group
Tony Kasim,
Malaysia: Non-state actors group
Hilary Fisher: Campaign
Advocacy group
Tilder Kumichii
Mdichia, Cameroon: Capacity Building and
training group
Interviews
Silvia Juliá (spanish): Campaña
por la despenalización del aborto en Argentina: logros, obstáculos y
estrategias.
Juana Calfunao (spanish): Situación del pueblo Mapuche en Chile y
violaciones de los derechos humanos perpetrados por actores estatales
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