Sponsored by the Paris Bar
Time & Location
Jan 15, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT+1
CICG I Room P. E (and online), Rue de Varembé 17, 1211 Genève, Switzerland
About the session
Panelists will share their first-hand experience and different perspectives – legal experts, practitioners, victims, party to the proceedings – and discuss challenges and opportunities for holding perpetrators of enforced disappearance accountable on the basis of universal jurisdiction.
Moderator
Anne SOULÉLIAC, Barreau de Paris, Director of International Affairs, France
Panelists
Grażyna BARANOWSKA, UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), Vice-Chair, Poland
Philip GRANT, TRIAL International, Executive Director, Switzerland
Luciano HAZAN, human rights lawyer, former member of the UN WGEID and CED, former lawyer of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Head of the Program against Institutional Violence at the Federal Public Defender’s Office of Argentina
Andreas SCHÜLLER, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Director of the International Crimes and Accountability program, Germany
Clémence BECTARTE, FIDH Litigation Action Group, Coordinator, France
Obeida DABBAGH, Syria
Mazen DARWISH, Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), President, Syria
Sponsor
Paris Bar