INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION: SESSION 150

Children's rights are set to be on the agenda in a number of discussions scheduled to take place during the 150th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 

Hearings are scheduled for the following dates: 24, 25, 27 and 28 March. 

The following hearings either focus exclusively on children or are likely to include children's rights on the agenda: 

Monday, 24 March: 

• Violations of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Colombia 
  Petitioners: Programa de Acción por la Igualdad y la Inclusión Social (PAIIS) / Law School of Universidad de los Andes / Asociación de Familias de Personas con Síndrome de Down (ASDOWN COLOMBIA)
• Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas 
  Petitioners include: Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) / Red 
  latinoamericana y caribeña por la defensa de los derechos de los niños, niñas y adolescentes (REDLAMYC) / Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres (CLADEM)
• Access to Justice for Child and Adolescent Victims of Sexual Violence in Peru
  Petitioners: Save the Children / Instituto Promoviendo Desarrollo Social - IPRODES / State of Peru 
• Human Rights Situation of Haitian Migrant Workers and their Families in the Dominican Republic
  Petitioners: Genaro Rincón / Gregoria Corporan / Reemberto Pichardo Juan / Josefina Juan Vda. Pichardo / Manuel de Jesús Dandre / María Martínez / State of the Dominican Republic
• Situation of the Right to Nationality of Dominicans of Haitian Descent affected by Denationalisation Policies in the Dominican Republic
  Petitioners include: Centro Pedro Francisco Bonó / Solidaridad Fronteriza / Fundación Étnica Integral (FEI) / Centro Cultural Dominico-Haitiano (CCDH) / Observatorio de Migrantes del Caribe (OBMICA) / Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) / State of the Dominican Republic

Tuesday, 25 March

• Case 12.866 – Henry Hill et al., United States (on inhuman sentencing of juvenile offenders) 
  Petitioners: ACLU Human Rights Program / ACLU Michigan Juvenile Life Without Parole Initiative / Human Rights Clinic - Columbia Law School / State of the United States 
• Situation of Legal Standing and Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities in Latin America 
  Petitioners: Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Argentina / Instituto Interamericano sobre Discapacidad y Desarrollo Inclusivo, Costa Rica / Id(h)eas, Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos, A.C., Mexico / Instituto Interamericano sobre Discapacidad y Desarrollo Inclusivo, Uruguay / Disability Rights International

• Human Rights Situation of LGBTI Persons in Canada
  Petitioners: Egale Canada / State of Canada
• Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Prior Consultation in Chile 
  Petitioners: Claudia Paillalef, National Counselor to Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (CONADI) / Pueblos Indígenas Unidos de la Cuenca de Tarapacá, Quebradas de Coscaya, Aroma y Miñe Miñe / Observatorio de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas (ODPI) / State of Chile
• Criminal Justice and Human Rights of Children and Adolescents in the Americas
  Petitioners include: Colectivo Argentino por los Derechos del Niño, Argentina / Asociacao Nacional de Centros de Defensa dos Direitos da Crianca (ANCED), Brazil / Foro Chileno por los Derechos de la Infancia, Chile / Coordinadora Derechos de Infancia y Adolescencia (CDI), Paraguay / Coalición de ONG por la Infancia de la República Dominicana / Comité de los Derechos del Niño, Uruguay / Red de Infancia y Adolescencia (RIA), El Salvador / 

• Public Policies for Protecting the Human Rights of LGTBI Children and Adolescents in Paraguay
  Petitioners: SOMOSGAY / Federación Paraguaya LGBT / LESVOS / State of Paraguay
• Human Rights Situation of LGBTI Persons in the Andean Region
  Petitioners: Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (PROMSEX), Perú / Fundación Equidad, Ecuador / Fundación Igualdad, Bolivia
• Human Rights Situation of LGBTI Persons in Belize
  Petitioners: United Belize Advocacy Movement / State of Belize

Further information: 

• Visit the Inter-American Commission's website
• Full schedule of hearings for the 149th Session
• Webcast channels of the 150th session: English and Spanish
• Children's rights and the Inter-American Commission
• Website of the Rapporteur on Child Rights at the Commission