A/HRC/19/58
19.
On 7 March 2011, the Chair-Rapporteur, Mr. Jeremy Sarkin, presented the Working
Group’s 2010 annual report to the sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council and
participated in the interactive dialogue with Member States. During the reporting period,
the Chair-Rapporteur made a series of presentations, including a paper on ―How to
Guarantee Non-Repetition of Human Rights Violations in Transitional Societies‖ to the
conference Shaping a Truth and Reconciliation Mechanism for Burundi, Bujumbura,
Burundi, November 2010; papers on ―Designing National Legislation on Enforced
Disappearances‖ and ―Designing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions‖ to a Workshop
for Nepal Parliamentarians on Transitional Justice Processes, Kathmandu, Nepal,
December 2010; a paper on ―Disappearances and Secret Prisons‖ to the National University
of Timor-Leste, Dili, Timor-Leste, February 2011; a paper on ―Criminalization of gross
human rights violations, including enforced disappearances within the follow up work of
truth commissions‖ to a Side Event at the Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland,
March 2011; a paper on ―Preventing Impunity and Eradicating the Crime of Enforced
Disappearance‖ to a Side Event at the Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, March
2011; a paper on ―Guaranteeing the non-repetition of human rights violations in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo‖ to the Conference ―Options for Transitional justice in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Impunity, Amnesty and Reparations, Kinshasa,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 2011; a paper on ―The Legal Protection of
Children from Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances‖ to the United Nations expert
meeting: ―The legal framework required to prohibit, prevent and respond to all forms of
violence against children‖, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2011; a paper on ―The Interface
between International and Domestic Criminal Justice‖ to the Prosecutor-General and
Prosecutors, held in Male, Maldives, September, 2011; a paper on ―Dealing with Enforced
Disappearances in Timor-Leste: Promoting Truth, Justice, Reparations and Reconciliation"
to the Law School, Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, October 2011; and a paper on
―Developing Cooperative Strategies between the Committee on Enforced Disappearance
and the Working Group on Enforced on Involuntary Disappearances‖ to the International
Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) Conference on the Universal
Implementation of the Convention Against Enforced Disappearances: A Task and a
Challenge, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2011. During the year he also made a number
of other conference presentations and gave a number of mandate-related trainings around
the world.
20.
Ms. Jasminka Dzumhur made a series of presentations, including of a paper on ―The
Promotion of Human Rights and Documentary Movie‖ to a side event to the Sarajevo Film
Festival, Sarajevo, July 2011; a paper on ―The International Mechanisms for Protection of
the Rights of Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances‖ to the Meeting of the Regional
Coordination Body of Victims Association form Balkans, Sarajevo, July 2011; a paper on
―Women Victims in the Post-Conflict Countries‖ to the Conference organized by ―Kvinna
till Kvinna‖, Jahorina, Sarajevo, October 2011; and a paper on ―UNSCR 1325: Moving
Beyond Theory to Maximize Security in the OSCE‖ to the Conference organized by the
OSCE Vienna, Sarajevo, October 2011.
21.
During the reporting period, all the members of the Working Group carried out a
number of activities connected to enforced disappearances which include their participation
in seminars, trainings, workshops and lectures.
B.
Meetings
22.
During the period under review, representatives of the Governments of Algeria, the
People’s Republic of China, the Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Guatemala, Iraq, Japan,
the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, and Serbia attended the sessions of the Working
Group. A number of other bilateral meetings were held with various States during the year.
9
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents