Connecting victims and CSOs to United Nations mechanisms: how to foster effective engagement

To foster effective victim and CSO engagement with the UN human rights mechanisms, this session will provide a space for CSOs to directly exchange with the relevant mechanisms. CSOs will be able to share positive experiences and challenges, while the UN mechanisms will respond and present existing avenues and tools to address enforced disappearances.

Moderator

• Matar DIOP, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), Vice-Chair, Senegal

Panelists

• Juan Carlos GUTIÉRREZ CONTRERAS, IDHEAS – Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos A.C. (IDHEAS), Legal Director, Mexico

• Jean-Jacques NGANYA, Pax Christi Uvira, Director, Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Yelyzaveta SOKURENKO, Human Rights Centre ZMINA, Head of the war crimes documentation department, Ukraine

• Alexis THIRY, MENA Rights Group, Legal Advisor

• Juan Pablo ALBÁN ALENCASTRO, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), Member and Rapporteur, Ecuador

• Ana Lorena DELGADILLO PÉREZ, UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), Member, Mexico

• Gabriela GUZMAN, UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), Executive Secretary, Mexico

• Maximilian MURCK, UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Human Identification Programme, Coordinator, Mexico

• Albane PROPHETTE-PALLASCO, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), Executive Secretary, France/Ecuador

• Morris TIDBALL-BINZ, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Chile

• Hélène TIGROUDJA, UN Human Rights Committee, Member and Special Rapporteur on New Communications and

  Interim Measures, France