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International Council on Human Rights Policy - Narrative Report 2009 The Council or representatives from the research team participated or spoke at a range of other meetings during the year. J. Bacio Terracino attended the IACSS meeting in Vienna convened by the Federal Bureau for Internal Affairs, Austria. Magdalena Sepúlveda presented the Council’s report report at the regional university course on Transparency conducted by the Human Rights Center, University of Chile. In July, the Council’s Director presented the report at the MAAC annual conference in Yerevan, and launched the Armenian translation with the Human Rights Ombudsman of Armenia. In aAugust, the Council’s Director presented the report at the annual conference of the Asia Pacific Forum in Amman. In September, the Director presented the report to a meeting of Council of Multilateral Diplomacy in Geneva. Follow-up will continue into 2011, merging with activities associated with dissemination of the Council’s second publication on corruption, due in mid-2010. An ambitious programme of activities is planned, including several regional meetings, the first of which will take place in Mexico City in April 2010, co-sponsored by the ICHRP, the University of Monterrey, and the Mexican Government. The follow-up programme will be linked with the 14 th biennial Conference on Corruption in Bangkok in November 2010. Research director: Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona. Design: Quarter 4, 2006. Start: Quarter 1, 2007. Papers commissioned: February-June 2007. Review meeting: July 2007. Draft report: March 2008 (Report I). Consultation: June-August 2008 (Report I). Publication: October 2008 (Report I). Title: Corruption and Human Rights – Making the Connection (Report I). In English, Spanish and Armenian. Summary in English, French, Spanish. Other translations to be confirmed. Research team: Lead researchers: Julio Bacio Terracino (conceptual links); Noel Kututwa (implementation); Namawu Alhassan Alolo (gender); Christian Gruenberg. Papers: Carlos Castresana Fernández (investigation); Helen Darbishire (information); Christian Gruenberg (comparative assessment); Victoria Jennett (access to justice and remedy); Maina Kiai (national human rights institutions); Lucy Koechlin (national integrity systems); Todd Landman (indexes); Brigit Toebes (health); José Ugaz (politicisation). Advisers: Chong San Lee, Sandra Coliver, Stuart Gilman, Colin Goncalves, Nihal Jayawickrama, Ivan Krastev, C. Raj Kumar, Philliat Matsheza, Eduardo E. Rodriguez Veltzé, Ibrahim Wani. See also: Section B: Corruption and Human Rights II (Project 131B). Sexuality and Human Rights: Discussion Paper 1 (137) Published in July 2009 In 2008, the International Council commissioned Professor Alice Miller to advise the Council on the focus of a new project it was developing on issues of sexuality and human rights. She was asked to consider the principal dilemmas and challenges that present themselves in the field of sexuality from a human rights perspective, and suggest themes or sub-themes on which the Council’s research might focus. The paper she prepared framed so usefully a debate that has been controversial and complex that the Council decided to edit and publish it as an initial contribution to discussion of the subject. 4
International Council on Human Rights Policy - Narrative Report 2009 After a focused consultation with a small number of experts, the paper was re-edited by the author and published in July 2009. On July 6-7 we held an expert meeting in Geneva to plan the focus of the Council’s project. Participants, who represented a spectrum of organisations that work on issues of sexuality and human rights, discussed a range of themes relevant to sexuality and human rights and then advised the Council on where its research project should concentrate. The group recommended a project that would examine the legal concepts that underpin public policies that regulate sexual expression and behaviour (such notions as “public order”, “public morals”, “public health”, and ideas of decorum, decency, appropriate dress etc.). The participants were Maxim Anmeghichean (Programmes Director, ILGA-Europe, Moldova); Hossam Bahgat (Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Egypt); Codou Bop (Coordinator of GREFELS, Senegal); Widney Brown (Senior Director of International Law and Policy, Amnesty International, US/UK); Radhika Chandiramani (Executive Director of TARSHI - Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues, India); Sonia Correa (Director DAWN, Development Alternatives with Women for a new Era, Brazil); Shanthi Dairiam (former Executive Director of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, former expert member of the CEDAW Committee, Malaysia); Stefano Fabeni (Director, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex Initiative, Global Rights, US); Susana Fried (Senior Gender Adviser, HIV/AIDS Group at the Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme, US); Eszter Kismodi (Human Rights Adviser of the Gender, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Health & Adolescence, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO, Switzerland); Allison Jernow (Senior Legal Officer for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, International Commission of Jurists, Switzerland); Scott Long (Director, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, US); Alice Miller (Lecturer-in-Residence at UC Berkeley Law School, Senior Fellow at Boalt’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, US); Steven R. Ratner (Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School, US); Cynthia Rothschild (Independent Consultant and Senior Policy Adviser, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, US); Ignacio Saiz (Executive Director, Centre for Economic and Social Rights, Spain); Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani (Mulabi - Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos, Argentina); Professor Carole Vance (Dept. of Anthropology and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, US); Alma Viviana Perez (First Secretary for Human Rights, Colombian Mission to the UN, Switzerland). Later in July, the Council participated in a Regional academic conference on sexuality and gender at the Human Rights Center, University of Chile. The Council distributed the report to experts in the field of sexuality and human rights and in the last four months of 2009, on the basis of the expert meeting, began preparing to start research on project sexuality, health and human rights (see section C, project 134). In parallel, the Council opened a discussion with WHO about possible collaboration on publishing the outcomes of a large research project on health, sexuality and human rights that WHO undertook in 2008-2009. This project will start in 2010. Sexuality and Human Rights is the first in a new series of Discussion Papers. These will be edited in ICHRP’s style, but will not be subject to the same level of expert consultation and will not have the same degree of Council ownership as Council reports. The series is designed to allow the Council to explore issues in a manner that is more open-ended manner than its main reports. 5
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