Programme ECCHRD Strasbourg 2014

Agenda of the
35th Meeting of the European Coordination
Committee on Human Rights Documentation
Strasbourg, France
11-13 June 2014
Organized by the
European Court of Human Rights
Council of Europe
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Welcome
17:00 – 19:00
Visit to the European Court of Human Rights + Reception
Thursday, 12 June 2014
European Court of Human Rights and Council of Europe
9:00 – 9:10
9:10 – 9:20
Opening of the meeting / Welcome speech
Adoption of the agenda
Election of chairperson
Lawrence Early (Jurisconsult, ECHR)
Chair + Participants
9:20 – 10:00
Presentations by participants of their
organizations, interests and motivations
ECHR procedures:
How does the European Court of Human
Rights work ? How are cases processed ?
Coffee break
Participants
11:00 – 11:30
ECHR case-law information tools
11:30 – 12:00
Hudoc database
Leif Berg (Head of Case-Law
Information and Publications, ECHR)
Stefano Palermiti
(Head of HUDOC, ECHR)
12:00 – 12:30
Feedback and questions
10:00 – 10:30
Paola Tonarelli
(Head of Case Management and
Working Methods, ECHR)
Participants
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30
The execution of judgments (and the
documents published)
Frederik Sundberg (CM-Exec)
14:30 – 15:00
Beyond the HR Convention: An overview
of specific human rights monitoring
activities (torture, racism, trafficking, ...)
The Council of Europe and NGOs:
How can they work together in the
promotion of human rights ?
Coffee break
Achim Holzenberger (DGI)
15:00 – 15:30
16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 17:30
20:00 – ?
Annelise Oeschger (President of the
Human Rights Committee of the INGO
Conference of the Council of Europe)
Producing customised documents from
the web – The example of the ESC
Finding documents of the Commissioner
for Human Rights
James Lawson (ESC)
Finding documents of the Parliamentary
Assembly
Kathleen Layle (PACE)
Dinner in a local restaurant
(to be paid by the participants individually)
Magnus Marie Saint Germain
(Commissioner for Human Rights)
Friday, 13 June 2014
Libraries, information and documentation issues
9:00 – 9:30
Access to libraries for persons with
disabilities
Interactive case law databases for the
African and Inter-American human rights
systems
Anne Sieberns
(German Institute for Human Rights)
Bert Verstappen (Huridocs)
10:00 – 10:30
The use of social media for campaigning
for human rights: The example of the “No
Hate Speech Movement”
Rui Gomes
(Education and Training Division)
10:30 – 10:40
The use of social media for searching for
human rights information: The experience
of the CPT
Decision on thematic interest groups
(e.g. “social media”, “open access”,
“torture”, “refugees”, “libraries”, …)
Patrick Müller (CPT)
11:00 – 14:00
Meeting of the thematic interest groups,
lunch break,
possible visit to ECHR Library at 13:30
Participants
14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00
The Library of the European Court of
Human Rights
Report back from thematic interest groups
Nora Binder
(Library of the ECHR)
Participants
15:00 – 15:30
An update from Huridocs
Bert Verstappen (Huridocs)
15:30 – 15:55
Future management of the ECCHRD
website, Date and time of the next
ECCHRD meeting
Closing of the meeting
Participants
9:30 – 10:00
10:40 – 11:00
15:55 – 16:00
Participants
Chair
Venue: Seminar Room
European Court of Human Rights (“Cour européenne des droits de l’homme”)
Allée des Droits de l'Homme, Strasbourg, France
http://www.coe.int/AboutCoe/media/interface/publications/Acces_coe.pdf
Language: English
Participation fee: None.
(Please note that all costs related to travel and hotel have to be paid the participants or their institutions.)

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