“FOR A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS”
February 6, 2004: Hands Off Cain informs you that the conference “Moratorium on executions”, organised with the financial support of the EU, will be held in Rome on February 13 and 14, 2004. This meeting will discuss how to proceed in order to achieve ou
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FOR A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
February 13-14, 2004
Via di Torre Argentina, 76 - ROME
February 13, 2004
9:00 am
Opening remarks by Sergio D’Elia, Hands Off Cain, General Secretary
The stands of the Italian government, the European Union, and the rest of the world with regard to the proposal for a worldwide moratorium on executions through the UN.
9.30 am
Report by Elisabetta Zamparutti, Hands Off Cain, Treasurer
Prospects in Africa: moratorium on executions and democracy on the African continent.
10.00 am
Speakers
Aldo Ajello, EU Special Envoy to the Great Lakes region in Africa
Emma Bonino, MEP and former EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid
Leonard She Okitundu, roving Ambassador for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila and former DRC Foreign Minister who introduced a moratorium in 1999
Marco Pannella, MEP and Hands Off Cain President
2.30 – 8.00 pm
General debate
Keynote Speakers
George Ryan, former Governor of Illinois and Honorary President of Hands Off Cain, the first American Governor to introduce a moratorium on executions (via live phone link from the United States)
Mame Bassine Niang, Minister for Human Rights, Senegal
Robinson Njeru Githae, MP, Vice Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Kenya
Gloria Akuffo, Deputy Minister of Justice, Ghana
Abdul Oroh, MP, Vice President of the Committee for Human Rights, House of Representatives, Nigeria, and Hands Off Cain board member
Jumoke Okoya, MP, President of the Committee on Prisons, House of Representatives, Nigeria
Norman Kapungwe Chibamba, MP, Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Governance, Human Rights and Gender Matters, National Assembly, Zambia
Demba Traore, MP, Member of the Justice Commission, National Assembly, Mali
Allieu I. Kanu, Ambassador of Sierra Leone, to the UN in New York (via live phone link from the United States)
Members of the Hands off Cain Board of Directors attending the meeting are:
Steven Block, lawyer, Illinois, USA; Daniele Capezzone, leader of the Italian political party “Radicali Italiani” (liberal and nonviolent movement); Marco Cappato, MEP; Benedetto della Vedova, MEP; Antonella Dentamaro, assistant program director of “No Peace without Justice” (NGO); Giorgio Fanara, manager; Kok Ksor, President of the “Montagnards Foundation”, Vietnam (via live phone link from the United States); Alessandro Litta Modignani, Councillor, Lombardy; Bruno Mellano, Councillor, Piedmont; Piero Muscarà, journalist and chair of the multimedia company “Nexta”; Gianluca Pecchini, general manager of the “Italian Singer’s National Football Team”; Marco Perduca, Representative of the “Transnational Radical Party” (ONG) at the UN; Begonia Rodriguez, Spain; Melodee Smith, lawyer, USA; Antonio Stango, “Helsinki Federation” official and programme manager “Freedom House”; Oliviero Toscani, photographer, author of the Benetton campaign “We, on Death Row”; Anna Zammit, journalist, Malta.
The meeting will be attended also by various representatives of the EU governments in Italy and by Italian and European parliamentarians
February 14, 2004
9.00 am
Resumption of the general debate
11.00 am
Conclusions
12.15 am
Press conference
Simultaneous translation will be provided in English, French and Italian
In partnership with:
European Union
Transnational Radical Party
Radio Radicale
Nexta.com
Nazionale Italiana Cantanti
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