ELDH European Association of Lawyers
for Democracy & World Human Rights

Friday, 22^nd July 2011 - Palazzo Ducale, Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Genoa

- simultaneous translation: English, French, Italian, Spanish -

 9h30 am

The programme:

GREETINGS

·         Stefano Savi, President of the Bar Association of Genoa

·         Mr. August Gil Matamala - Honorary President of AED-EDL (European Democratic Lawyers)

·         Prof. Bill Bowring – President ELDH (European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights)

·         Haidi Giuliani (mother of Carlo Giuliani, killed 10 years ago by the police at the Anti-G8-demonstration in Genoa)

·         Enrica Bartesaghi - President of “Comitato Verità e Giustizia per Genova”

 Hours 10h00 -13h00

Session 1, Chair: Riccardo Passeggi, Genoa (Genoa Legal Forum)

ATTACKS ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS UNDER THE PRETEXT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

Thomas Schmidt - ELDH Secretary General

CHANGES IN EUROPEAN LEGISLATION CONCERNING POLITICAL RIGHTS 2001-2011

Prof. Silvia Buzzelli, Milano (Milano Bicocca University)

TRANSNATIONAL EUROPEAN COOPERATION BETWEEN POLICE FORCES: TECHNIQUES FOR CONTROL OF POPULAR PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS

Tony Bunyan - Director of Statewatch, London

THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF LAWYERS

Gilberto Pagani - President AED-EDL

Interventions by the public and debate

Hours 13h30 – 15h00 Lunch break

Hours 15h00 -18h00

ROUND TABLE –

The status of rights in Europe

The evolution of repression against social movements and the response of lawyers in different countries

Coordinator: Dario Rossi, Genoa (Genoa Legal Forum)

Moderator: Marco Preve, Genoa (La Repubblica, Genoa)

• Sarah McSherry, London (Christian Khan Solicitors; Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers)
• Ezio Menzione, Pisa (Legal Team Italia)
• Jean Jacques Gandini, Montpellier (Syndicat des Avocats de France, SAF)
• Sönke Hilbrans, Berlin (Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein, RAV)
• Jaume Asens, Barcelona (Associació Catalana per a la Defensa dels Drets Humans)
• Yiannis Rachiotis, Athens (Alternative Intervention of Athens Lawyers, AIAL )
• Anne Maesschalk, Brussels (Syndicat des Avocats pour la Democratie)
• Viktor Györffy, Zurich (President of “grundrechte.ch” - fundamental rights Switzerland, Juristes Démocrates Suisses)
• Andoni Hernandez Murga, Bilbao (Asociación de abogados de Euskal Herria, Eskubideak)

Interventions by the public and debate

Organizers:

·         European Democratic Lawyers (AED - EDL), www.aed-edl.net

·         European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) www.eldh.eu

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For further information and registration

site http://aed-eldhgenova2011.sytes.net

 

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Released: 22.07.2011

Stichwörter: Europa, Globalisierung, Menschenrechte, Soziale Rechte, Antiterrorpolitik