The forum, entitled "JUSTICE: New Challenges - the Right to an Effective Remedy before an Independent Tribunal", will take place in Yerevan  from 6th to 8th April 2010.

Taking into consideration the interest of journalists, non-governmental organizations, lawyers, students, political parties, as well as different individuals towards the "Justice-New challenges, the Right to an Effective remedy before independent tribunal" forum, we announce once more that

- It will take place in Yerevan, 6-8 April, 2010, and will be followed by FIDH Congress.

- Only the delegates of FIDH member organizations from 105 countries can participate in the Congress. 

- The Forum is open for participation. The number of participants may be limited only by technical capacity of the halls (number of seats, translation equipment, though the organizers have rented the biggest halls of the city and special translation equipment). The preference for participation to the forum will be given to human rights defenders and lawyers.

We kindly ask to fill in the application form and indicate which sessions you would like to attend. Please send the applications to forum@csi.am till 2 April. The participants will be given invitations at CSI Office.

Aygestan 11th str., 43 building
Yerevan, Armenia
tel: (+37410) 574317

Forum agenda is avialable at:
http://www.fidh.org/-FORUM-JUSTICE-NEW-CHALLENGES-

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2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureat Shirin Ebadi, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo, Secretary-General of the International Organisation of La Francophonie Abdou Diouf, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights Francoise Tulkens: these are a few names among the list of key personalities and renowned national and international experts participating in the FIDH Forum alongside human rights defenders from the 155 FIDH member organisations throughout the world. This forum, entitled "JUSTICE: New Challenges - the Right to an Effective Remedy before an Independent Tribunal", will take place in Yerevan (Armenia) from 6th to 8th April 2010.

"This forum will represent a unique opportunity for debate and exchange of experiences and analysis relating to the fight against impunity, access to justice for victims of human rights violations and prevention of the most serious crimes", declared Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH President. "Bringing together so many personalities around this issue shortly before the commemoration of the first genocide of the 20th century, takes on a strong symbolic importance in our eyes, in particular in the context of continued dialogue between Turkey and Armenia", she explained.

This forum, organised in partnership with the Civil Society Institute (CSI), FIDH member organisation in Armenia, within the framework of the 37th FIDH Congress, will indeed constitute an opportunity to work on the different remedies available to victims of human rights violations in the course of their struggle for truth, justice and reparations on a national, regional and international level, and to look into the issue of the prevention of international crimes, on the basis of the exchange of experiences between participating NGOs from every continent.

The FIDH 37th Congress pays tribute to Natalia Estemirova, Russian human rights defender, assassinated on the 15th July 2009.