12th GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE WORLD COALITION AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY

At the invitation of the Puerto Rico Bar Association, the 12th General Assembly of the
World Coalition will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico at:

Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico
Ave. Ponce de Len 808, Miramar, Puerto Rico


20-21 JUNE, 2014


Agenda


Thursday 19 June
5pm - Inter American University, School of Law Theatre
A talk on representing people that are facing the death penalty with a focus on the Caribbean.
The Representing Individuals Facing the Death Penalty: A Best Practices Manual will also be
presented.
Speakers: Juan Matos (Capital Defense lawyer and Chairman of the Puerto Rico Bar
Association); Parvais Jabbar (Capital Defense lawyer and Executive Director of the Death
Penalty Project); Anne Soulliac (Lawyer and Head of the Human Rights section of the Paris
Bar).

Friday 20 June
2.30pm - Documentary Juan Melndez - 6446, Cinema Bar, Ballaj, Old San Juan
This screening will be hosted by the Civil Rights Commisssion with former death row
inmate Juan Melndez in attendance.

WCADP General Assembly
6-8pm - Opening Session:
Welcoming remarks by Florence Bellivier (President of the World Coalition Against the
Death Penalty)

Speakers: Ana Irma Rivera-Lassn (President of the Puerto Rico Bar); Hon. David
Bernier (Puerto Rico Secretary of State); Edgardo Romn-Espada (Former General
Coordinator of the Puerto Rican Coalition Against the Death Penalty); Kevin Miguel
Rivera-Medina (Chair of the Puerto Rico Bar Committee on the Death Penalty).

Saturday 21 June
9-11am - Plenary Session 1: The Death Penalty in the Caribbean
Panel: Parvais Jabbar (Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project); Leela Ramdeen
(Chair of the Greater Caribbean for Life network); Dr Ruth Wijdenbosch
(Parliamentarians for Global Action Executive Committee Member and Vice-Chair of
the National Assembly of Suriname); Hon. Miguel Pereira (Senator and Former Police
Chief of Puerto Rico). Hon. Pedro Pierluisi (Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to
Washington DC).
Moderator and concluding remarks: Carmelo Campos (Vice Chair of the Greater
Caribbean for Life network).
11-11:15am - Coffee Break
11:15-12:45pm - Round table: Innocence and the Death Penalty
Panel: Ray Krone (former death row inmate and Director of Membership and Training
for Witness to Innocence); Rosalyn Park (Advocates for Human Rights);
Juan Melndez (former death row inmate and member of Witness to Innocence).
Moderator: Elizabeth Zitrin (Vice-President of the World Coalition against the Death
Penalty).
11:15-12:45pm - Round table: Role of Parliamentarians towards Abolition
Panel: Raphal Chenuil-Hazan (Executive Director of ECPM and Vice-President of the
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty); Hon. Pedro Pierluisi (Resident
Commissioner of Puerto Rico to Washington DC); Renny Cushing (New Hampshire
Parliamentarian and Executive Director of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights).
Moderator: Dr Ruth Wijdenbosch (Parliamentarians for Global Action Executive
Committee Member and Vice-Chair of the National Assembly of Suriname).
12:45-2pm - Lunch
2:15-3:15pm - Workshop: Teaching Abolition
Panel: Irma Lugo (Amnesty International-Puerto Rico); Marianne Rossi (Program officer of
ECPM).
2:15-3:15pm - Workshop: Working with Journalists
Panel: Rafael Lenin Lpez (President of the Puerto Rico Journalist Association); Thomas
Hubert (Web-editor of Worldcoalition.org and journalist).
3:15-3:30pm - Coffee Break
3:30-5:30pm - Plenary Session 2: Mental Health and the Death Penalty
Panel: Dr. Terry Kupers (Psychiatrist); Dr. Steve Greenspan (Expert on intellectual
disability and the death penalty); Parvais Jabbar (Executive Director of the Death
Penalty Project).
Moderator: Maria Donatelli (Director of the World Coalition Against the Death
Penalty).
5:30-6:15pm - Bomba Dance lesson


Sunday 22 June (Open to members of the World Coalition only)

9:30-2pm - Statutory Meeting
23pm - Lunch
34pm - Workshop: Using the World Coalitions online Library
Thomas Hubert (Web-editor of Worldcoalition.org and journalist).
34pm - Workshop: Monitoring and Evaluation
Dr. Arnaud Gaillard (RAIDH and internal evaluator for the World Coalition Against the Death
Penalty).
4-5pm - Workshop: Developing tools for Abolition
Marianne Rossi (Program officer of ECPM)
4-6pm - Steering Committee meeting (Steering Committee members only)




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Coalicin Puertorriquea Contra la Pena de Muerte