<EntPE>EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT</EntPE>

 

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

Subcommittee on Human Rights

 

 

JOINT PUBLIC HEARING     FEMINICIDE THE CASE OF MEXICO AND GUATEMALA     Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 10.00 a.m. - 13.00   Room ASP 5G3 (please check the screen)   BRUSSELS   Chairpersons: Mrs Hélène Flautre, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights Dr Anna Záborská, Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

 

10.00 am       Welcome by Mrs Hélène Flautre and Dr Anna Záborská

 

10.15 am       Mrs Morgantini (to be confirmed)

                     President of the Development committee

 

10.20 am       Mrs Alba Estela Maldonado Guevara, Guatemala

Member of Congress (URNG),

Vice president of the Committee on Womens's issues, coordinator of the investigation on feminicide and author of "Feminicidios en Guatemala" crimines contra la humanidad        

 

10.30 am       Mrs María Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos, Mexico

Member of Congress (PRD),

President of the Special Commission on Feminicide    

 

10.40 am       Mrs María Guadalupe Morfín Otero, Mexico

Federal Commissioner for Prevention and Eradication of Violence on Women in Ciudad Juaréz, Chihuahua

 

10.50 am        Mrs Maria Gabriela Núnez Pérez, Guatemala

Minister of Women's Affairs, President of the Special Commission for the Investigation on Feminicide in Guatemala

 

11.00 am       Mrs Yakin Ertürk, UN

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences

 

11.10 am       Mrs Maria del Mar Monroy Garcia, FIDH

Advocacy coordinator, Mexican Commission for Defence and Promotion of Human Rights

                    

11.20 am       Debate

 

12.50            Concluding remarks by the Chairpersons

 

13.00            Closing of the Hearing