Saturday 13

The 2025 AHRI Conference is structured to address key issues related to human rights protection against organized crime from various perspectives. Activities include keynote lectures, parallel sessions, and academic interaction spaces, designed to promote the exchange of ideas, reflection, and dialogue among experts, academics, and participants from different disciplines.

Conference

9:30 am
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Parallel sessions
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Session 17: "Regulatory and judicial responses to today's organized crime" (Spanish/presential)

Session 18: "Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches and Experiences from Around the World" (English and Spanish/presential)

Session 19: "Operational measures and best practices against transnational organized crime" (Spanish and English/Hybrid)

Session 20: "Contemporary Challenges for the Protection of Persons in Mobility" (English/virtual)

Session 21: "Children at risk: Organized crime and its impact on the rights of children and adolescents" (English/virtual)

Session 22: "Normative systems against organized crime: comparative analysis and protection of human rights" (English/Hybrid)

11:00 am
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Coffee break
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    Outside of the Law Auditorium - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
11:30 am
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Master Lecture: “Organized Crime and Terrorism: Converging Threats or Distinct Phenomena?”
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    Auditorium of Law - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Keynote speaker:

Ben Saul (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism)

Panelists: 

Margaret Satterthwaite (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers).

José Ugaz Sánchez-Moreno (Senior Professor of the Law School of the PUCP).

Moderator: Kasey McCall-Smith

1:00 pm
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Closing Ceremony: "Human Rights in Perspective: A Review of the Challenges of the Past 25 Years and Beyond".
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    Faculty of Law Auditorium - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Speakers:

María Claudia Pulido (Assistant Executive Secretary for Monitoring, Promotion and Technical Cooperation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)

Elizabeth Salmón (UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

Manfred Nowak (United Nations Independent Expert responsible for the Global Study on Children Deprived of their Liberty)

Frans Viljoen (President of the AHRI network)

Moderator: Valeria Reyes Menéndez

2:30 pm
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Closing Cocktail Reception
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    Outside of the Law Auditorium - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

9:30 Hrs

Session 17: "Regulatory and judicial responses to today's organized crime" (Spanish/presential)
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    Hearing Room 1, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 18: "Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches and Experiences from Around the World" (English and Spanish/presential)
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    Hearing Room 2, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 19: "Operational measures and best practices against transnational organized crime" (Spanish and English/Hybrid)
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    Zolezzi Amphitheater, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 20: "Contemporary Challenges for the Protection of Persons in Mobility" (English/virtual)
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    Virtual session to be broadcast at the Dammert Amphitheater of the Law School - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Session 21: "Children at risk: Organized crime and its impact on the rights of children and adolescents" (English/virtual)
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    Virtual session
Session 22: "Contemporary challenges for the protection of people in mobility situations"(English/virtual)
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    Virtual Session