Legal tools against impunity: understanding and exercising universal jurisdiction

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