Friday 12

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

8:00 am
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General Assembly of the AHRI network (members only)
  • place
    Javier Neves" Room - Department of Law - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
9:30 am
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Keynote lecture: "International mechanisms to combat organized crime with a humanistic approach".
  • place
    Auditorium of Law - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Keynote speaker:

Mónica Serrano (Professor at the Center for International Studies, El Colegio de México)

Panelists:

Noam López (Senior Researcher of the Institute of Social Analytics and Strategic Intelligence of the PUCP)

Olga Espinoza (Coordinator of the Master in Criminology and Management of Citizen Security at the School of Government of the University of Chile)

Moderators: To be confirmed

11:00 am
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Coffee break
  • place
    Outside of the Law Auditorium - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
11:30 am
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Parallel sessions
  • place

Session 1: "Illegal Gold Mining: A Complex Challenge for Human Rights" (Spanish/ Presential)

Session 2: "Global Characterization of Organized Crime: Diversity, Expansion and Transnational Challenges" (Spanish and English/Virtual)

Session 3: "Multisectoral responses to protect human rights in the face of organized crime and corruption" (Spanish and English/ Hybrid)

Session 4: "Human Rights in the Digital Age: Ethical, Legal and Political Challenges for the Use of New Technologies" (Spanish and English/ Classroom)

Session 5: "Between Borders and Criminal Networks: Global Challenges for the Protection of Migrants, Refugees and Stateless Persons in the Context of Transnational Organized Crime" (English/ Hybrid)

1:00 pm
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Lunch break
  • place
3:00 pm
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Parallel sessions
  • place

Session 6: "International Protection of Human Rights: Current Challenges, Progress and Proposals for Reform" (Spanish/ Classroom)

Session 7: "Business Conduct in Contexts of Criminality and Extractivism: Legal Responses and Human Rights Disputes" (Spanish/ Presential)

Session 8: "Revealing transnational crimes in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and challenging de facto policies and laws on justice and victim protection" (English/ Hybrid)

Session 9: "International human rights law in the face of new scenarios of threat and transformation" (English/ Classroom)

Session 10: "Organized Crime and Social Risk Factors: Diagnosis and Action from a Human Rights Perspective" (English/ Classroom)

Session 11: "Collaborations between Academia and Civil Society: Strengthening Protection and Support for Human Rights Defenders at Risk" (English/Hybrid)

4:00 pm
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Coffee break
  • place
    Outside of the Law Auditorium - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
4:30 pm
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Parallel sessions
  • place

Session 12: "Exploitation, Discrimination and Recruitment: The Impact of Organized Crime on Vulnerable Groups" (Spanish and English/ Classroom)

Session 13: "Organized crime in Latin America: Characterization, governance and its impact on human rights and the rule of law" (Spanish/ Presential)

Session 14: "Children and adolescents in situations of mobility and transnational violence: challenges for the protection of rights in contexts of organized crime" (Spanish/ Hybrid)

Session 15: "The role of hybrid human rights mechanisms in the investigation of organized crime" (Spanish/ Presential)

Session 16: "Climate Justice and Human Rights: Current debates on law, territory and global action" (English/Hybrid)

7:30 pm
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Protocol dinner
  • place
    Larco Museum Café-Restaurant (Calle Navarra 169, Pueblo Libre)

11:30 Hrs

Session 1: "Illegal Gold Mining: A Complex Challenge for Human Rights" (Spanish/presential)
  • place
    Hearing Room 1, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 2: "Global Characterization of Organized Crime: Diversity, Expansion and Transnational Challenges" (English and Spanish/virtual)
  • place
    Virtual session
Session 3: "Multisectoral responses to protect human rights in the face of organized crime and corruption" (Spanish and English/Hybrid)
  • place
    Zolezzi Amphitheater, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 4: "Human Rights in the Digital Age: Ethical, Legal and Political Challenges for the Use of New Technologies" (Spanish and English/presential)
  • place
    Dammert Amphitheater, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 5: "Between Borders and Criminal Networks: Global Challenges for the Protection of Migrants, Refugees and Stateless Persons in the Context of Transnational Organized Crime" (English/Hybrid)
  • place
    Hall Z, Room 202

15:00 Hrs

Session 6: "International Protection of Human Rights: Current Challenges, Progress and Proposals for Reform" (Spanish/presential)
  • place
    Hearing Room 1, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 7: "Business Conduct in Contexts of Criminality and Extractivism: Legal Responses and Human Rights Disputes" (Spanish/presential)
  • place
    Hearing Room 2, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 8: "Revealing transnational crimes in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and challenging de facto policies and laws on justice and victim protection" (English/Hybrid)
  • place
    Zolezzi Amphitheater, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 9: "International human rights law in the face of new scenarios of threat and transformation" (English/presential)
  • place
    Dammert Amphitheater, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 10: "Organized Crime and Social Risk Factors: Diagnosis and Action from a Human Rights Perspective" (English/presential)
  • place
    Hall Z, Room 202
Session 11: "Collaborations between Academia and Civil Society: Strengthening Protection and Support for Human Rights Defenders at Risk" (English/Hybrid)
  • place
    Hall Z, room 203

16:30 Hrs

Session 12: "Exploitation, discrimination and recruitment: the impact of organized crime on vulnerable groups" (Spanish and English/presential)
  • place
    Hearing Room 1, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 13: "Organized crime in Latin America: Characterization, governance and its impact on human rights and the rule of law" (Spanish/presential)
  • place
    Hearing Room 2, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 14: "Children and adolescents in situations of mobility and transnational violence: challenges for the protection of rights in the context of organized crime" (Spanish/Hybrid)
  • place
    Zolezzi Amphitheater, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 15: "The role of hybrid human rights mechanisms in the investigation of organized crime" (Spanish/presential)
  • place
    Dammert Amphitheater, Faculty of Law- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Session 16: "Climate Justice and Human Rights: Current debates on law, territory and global action" (English/Hybrid)
  • place
    Hall Z, Room 202