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National, Regional and International Mechanisms to Combat Impunity and Ensure Accountability under International Law

-INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE- QATAR-DOHA

14-15 APRIL 2019

International Conference on the Prevention of Impunity, which will be organized in cooperation with the United Nations, the European Parliament, and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions on 14 and 15 April 2019, in Doha- Qatar.

For further information and inquiries, please contact:

- Mr: Mubarak Al-Safran

MAlsafran@nhrc.org.qa

Mobile: 66661046

- Mr: Ali Alsada

aalsada@nhrc.org.qa

Mobile: 55886828

- MR: Smail Tellai

smailtellai@gmail.com

Mobile: 009766890819 

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Smail Tellai

Senior Diplomatic Reporter

Al-ARAB NEWSPAPER

Correspondent for Al Quds Al Arabi Newspaper from Doha 

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09.00-10.00 Opening Session

H.E. Ali bin Samikh al Marri, Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar, Vice-President and Secretary General of GANHRI

H.E. Pier Antonio Panzeri, the Chair of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights

H.E. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. (Video Address)

H.E Carlos Negret Mosquera , President of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI).

H.E Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the investigation and prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Crimes in the Syrian Arab Republic.

10.00-10.15 Coffee Break

Debates

Panel One 10.15 – 13.00

Accountability for   

human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law

I. Duty to investigate and prosecute (Basic Principles and

Guidelines, Principles 1 to 7) II. Victims’ right to remedies (Basic Principles and

Guidelines, Principles 8 to 24)

Chairperson: Mohammad Ali Alnsour, Chief, Middle East and North

Africa Section (MENA), OHCHR.

Rapporteur: Anna Katulu (OHCHR)

Brenda J. Hollis, Prosecutor of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chairperson of the International Commission of Inquiry on the Syria Arab Republic.

Mona Rishmawi, Chief of Rule of Law, Equality and Non- discrimination Branch, OHCHR, UN, Geneva.

Saman Zia-Zarifi, Secretary General, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva.

Carmen Cheung, Center for Justice and Accountability.

13.00-15.00 Lunch Break

Panel Two 15.00-18.00

Protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity

I. Right to know. II. Right to justice. III. Right to reparation/guarantees of non-recurrence.

Chairperson: Mr. ORE Sylvain, President of the African Court on

Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Rapporteur: Yasmine Abou Mansour (OHCHR)

Marzuki Darusman, Chairperson of the independent Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.

Simon Adams, Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.

Ahmed Chaouqui Benyoub, The Interministerial Delegate for Human Rights, Morocco.

19.30

Dinner with Participants 

Fatsah Ouguergouz, Former President of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, Geneva.

Francois Membrez, International Expert, Geneva.

Three Working Groups : Good Practices, Lessons Learned and Proposals

9.00-12.00 Working Group One

I. Access to justice (Basic Principles and Guidelines,

Paragraphs 12 to 14)

Chairperson: Nicolo Angelo Figa-Talamanca, Secretary General,

No Peace Without Justice

Rapporteur: Michael Wiener (OHCHR).

Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the investigation and prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Crimes in the Syrian Arab Republic.

Kimberly Prost, Judge on the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands

Djaouida Siaci, Vice President of the Rohingya Support Group (RSG), New York.

Working Group Two

II. Reparation for harm suffered (Basic Principles and

Guidelines, Paragraphs 15 to 23)

Chairperson: Karen Smith, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on

the Responsibility to Protect.

Rapporteur: Anna Katulu (OHCHR)

Ben Keith, Barrister, Head of international team, UK.

Haydee J. Dijkstal, International Criminal and Human Rights Lawyer, UK.

Working Group Three12:00-12:30

Break

III. Access to relevant information concerning violations and reparation mechanisms (Basic Principles and Guidelines, Paragraphs 24)

Chairperson: Fausto Pocar, Chairman International Institute of

Humanitarian Law, Sanremo

Rapporteur: Yasmine Abou Mansour (OHCHR)

Michel Veuthey, Vice President of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and Ambassador of the Order of Malta to monitor and combat trafficking in persons.

Amal Nassar, Permanent Representative to ICC, international Federation for Human Rights ( FIDH ), Paris

12.30-12.45 Reporting Back from the three Working Groups.

Anis Anani (OHCHR)

12.45-13.15 Closing Remarks and Conclusions, Chaired by H.E. Ali bin Samikh al Marri, Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar.

Venue: Ritz-Carlton

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DO YOU REALLY WANT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ?


DO YOU REALLY WANT TO COMBAT IMPUNITY ?


YEMEN: THE FORGOTTEN WAR

text prepared by François de Siebenthal

Summary:

All parties involved should cooperate for a serious commission looking and establishing the real facts about the death of the 7 nuns of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, invited in Yemen by the former Président, nuns killed in Yemen with 12 collaborators in two different locations !

 We need the truth to have a real peace in Middle East !

With over 20 million in need of aid, Yemen is the world's single largest humanitarian crisis. ICRC is working tirelessly to provide food, clean water and essential household items.

Hodeidah, Red Sea coast. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Ralph Elhage

A statement from Robert Mardini, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), on the situation in Hodeida, Yemen.

The most recent push for Hodeida is likely to exacerbate an already catastrophic humanitarian situation in Yemen. The population has already been weakened to extreme levels.

Lifelines to the outside world must be maintained, including the Hodeida port and the Sana'a airport. Real people, real families, will suffer if no food is getting in, and we are concerned that ongoing military operations continue to hamper the arrival of essential goods.

The ICRC has prepositioned food, medical supplies, water purification systems and sanitation supplies in Hodeida. But these life-saving items cannot be given to those in need while fighting is ongoing.

We are concerned about Hodeida's essential infrastructure, including its water and electricity networks, which are vital to the civilian population's survival.

The ICRC, working in line with international humanitarian law, urges all parties to the conflict to respect civilian life by taking every possible measure to protect civilians, and to allow safe passage for those who want to escape the fighting. All persons captured in relation to the ongoing hostilities must be treated humanely, and the ICRC should be given access to detention facilities holding them.

Sana'a (ICRC): The International Committee of the Red Cross condemns Thursday's hits in the coastal city of Hodeida which resulted in the killing and wounding of scores of civilians.

"The scenes coming from Hodeida are horrific. The disregard of international humanitarian law in Yemen cannot be tolerated. While the exact circumstances around the ground explosions are still unknown, this lack of respect for civilian life and civilian property is reprehensible," said Johannes Bruwer, the head of the ICRC delegation in Yemen.

Fifty-five civilians were killed and 170 injured when a series of explosions rocked densely populated districts of the coastal city, including a fish market and the area around Al-Thawra Hospital, an ICRC-supported facility that is one of the biggest and busiest in Hodeida. Two ambulances were also destroyed.

"Under International humanitarian law (IHL), the civilian population, medical personnel, ambulances and medical facilities must be respected and protected in all circumstances, and the work of medical personnel must be facilitated," Bruwer said. The ICRC provided surgical material to assist severely wounded people as well as body bags to Al-Thawra Hospital after the neighborhood was targeted. This assistance follows regular support from the ICRC to hospitals in Hodeida in order to increase capacity to deal with wounded over the last 18 months.

Yemen: 71 ICRC staff pulled out of Yemen amid security incidents, threats

News release 07 JUNE 2018

Statement from ICRC's Director of Operations Dominik Stillhart

Geneva (ICRC) – Due to a series of incidents and threats, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pulled 71 staff members out of Yemen, crippling its humanitarian activities such as surgical services, visits to detainees, clean water initiatives and food assistance activities.

The ICRC has been present in Yemen since 1962, but we are now seeing dangerous trends. Our current activities have been blocked, threatened and directly targeted in recent weeks, and we see a vigorous attempt to instrumentalize our organization as a pawn in the conflict. The ICRC holds all parties responsible for the security of its staff.

While the Yemen delegation has received numerous threats in the past, we cannot now accept additional risk less than two months after a gunman killed a staff member. The security of our staff, who are being intimidated by parties to the conflict, is a non-negotiable prerequisite for our presence and work in Yemen and an absolute priority.

The ICRC is calling on all parties to the conflict to provide it with concrete, solid and actionable guarantees so that it can continue working in Yemen. The ICRC hopes to continue preventing and alleviating the suffering of people caught in the conflict, but we must have the full agreement of all parties to the conflict based on solid guarantees.

ICRC's work in Yemen for more than five decades has assisted victims of armed conflict and violence including displaced people, families of the missing, detainees, mine victims, and those in need of health care in Sana'a, Aden, Taiz, Saada and Hodeida. The ICRC's activities are based on the principles of neutrality and impartiality, focusing on victims' needs and applying the same approach to all victims.Sanaa (CICR) – 

Sa’ada, Yemen (October 2017): The neighbourhood of Rahban, a World Heritage site, was severely damaged by airstrikes.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) awarded the Humanitarian Visa d'Or yesterday to French photojournalist Véronique De Viguerie for her report on the impact of the conflict in Yemen on its people. This year's theme was urban war and the consequences for people forced to hide or flee, fearing for their safety and enduring shortages of food, water, health care and shelter.

Entitled "Yemen: The war they're hiding from us", Véronique de Viguerie's photo-reportage focuses in particular on Yemeni women, paying tribute to their struggle for survival in urban areas. These women have stepped up to fill many of the places left by men, becoming the heads of their household and caretakers for the community.

"It's gratifying to have my work recognized by a jury of respected professionals. But more than that, I hope this award will draw attention to the hidden conflict in Yemen and the terrible humanitarian situation there," said Véronique de Viguerie. "It was quite an ordeal reaching the north of the country, but once my reporting partner, Manon Querouil, and I got there, we forgot all the obstacles in the face of people's suffering. I just wanted to tell the story of their daily struggle to survive.".

Yemen, according to the World Church, Stephanie Dupasquier, they are more than 10,000 dead, 2 million displaced, 22 million people dependent on humanitarian aid! Yemen is shaken by a civil war that broke out in 2004 when the large Shia minority stood up against the central government. Saudi Arabia and its allies in the United Arab Emirates are part of this absurd conflict. Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman, recently received by President Emmanuel Macron, tried to round out the angles by paying $950 million for the victims. This did not prevent the NGO CARE from denouncing "one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world". What can Christians do in this country where, despite the past that testifies to it, there is no longer any indigenous church left? Their small numbers do not protect them, however, from jihadists who take advantage of the chaos to spread. In March 2016 four sisters of Mother Teresa had been murdered in Aden and an Indian priest kidnapped. What is the outcome, what is the future in this region, which is prey to ethnic and religious violence and where the Good News cannot be heard?

They killed 7 sisters of Saint Mother Teresa and their 12 collaborators...

They kill children, women, the weakest ones

It's a barbarism without limits!

Solutions !

Nicholas of Flüe (German: Niklaus von Flüe; 1417 – 21 March 1487)[1] was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland and of the world peace. He is sometimes invoked as Brother Klaus. A farmer, military leader, member of the assembly, councillor, judge and mystic, he was respected as a man of complete moral integrity. Brother Klaus's counsel to the Diet of Stans (1481) helped to prevent war between the Swiss cantons.

Earlier life

He was born in 1417, in the canton of Unterwalden, the oldest son of wealthy peasants. At the age of 21 he entered the army and took part in the battle of Ragaz in 1446,[1] and distinguished himself as a soldier in action against the canton of Zurich, which had rebelled against the confederation. He later took up arms again in the so-called Thurgau war against Archduke Sigismund of Austria in 1460. It was due to his influence that the Dominican convent St. Katharinental, whither many Austrians had fled after the capture of Diessenhofen, was not destroyed by the Swiss confederates.[1] At around the age of 30, he married Dorothea Wyss, a farmer's daughter. They farmed in the municipality of Flüeli in the alpine foothills, above Sachseln on the Lake Sarnen. He also continued in the military to the age of 37, rising to the position of captain, reportedly fighting with a sword in one hand and a rosary in the other. After serving in the military, he became a councillor and judge for his canton in 1459 and served as a judge for nine years. He declined the opportunity to serve as Landamman (governor) of his canton.

Political mystic

After receiving a mystical vision of a lily eaten by a horse,[2] which he recognized as indicating that the cares of his worldly life (the draft horse pulling a plough) were swallowing up his spiritual life (the lily, a symbol of purity), he decided to devote himself entirely to the contemplative life. In 1467, he left his wife and his ten children with her consent and set himself up as a hermit[1] in the Ranft chine in Switzerland, establishing a chantry for a priest from his own funds so that he could assist at mass daily. According to legend, he survived for nineteen years with no food except for the eucharist. Symbolic visions continued to be a feature of his contemplation, and he became a spiritual guide whose advice was widely sought and followed.[3] His reputation for wisdom and piety was such that figures from across Europe came to seek advice from him, and he was known to all as "Brother Klaus." In 1470, Pope Paul II granted the first indulgence to the sanctuary at Ranft and it became a place of pilgrimage, since it lay on the Jakobsweg (English: Way of St. James),[4] the road pilgrims travelled on to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. His counsel prevented a civil war between the cantons meeting at the Diet of Stans in 1481, when their antagonism grew.[3] Despite being illiterate and having limited experience with the world, he is honored among both Protestants and Catholics with the permanent national unity of Switzerland. Letters of thanks to him from Berne and Soleure still survive. When he died, on 21 March 1487, he was surrounded by his wife and children.

Visionary images

Of the many spiritual insights Nicholas received in his visions, one in particular is reproduced often in a reduced logographic format, as a mystical wheel.[7] Nicholas described his vision of the Holy Face at the center of a circle with the tips of three swords touching the two eyes and mouth, while three others radiate outwards in a sixfold symmetry reminiscent of the Seal of Solomon. A cloth painted with the image, known as the meditation prayer cloth[8] associates the symbol with six episodes from the life of Christ: the mouth of God at the Annunciation, the eyes spying Creation both in its prelapsarian innocence and redemption from the Fall at Calvary, while in the inward direction the betrayal by his disciple Judas in the Garden of Gethsamene points to the crown of the Pantocrator sitting in the judgment seat, the glad tidings of the Nativity scene's "Glory to God in the Highest and Peace to his people on Earth" echoes in the ear on the right of the head, while the memorial of the Lord's Supper "This is my body, which will be given for you" at the prayers of consecration in the Divine Liturgy of the Mass echoes to the ear on the left of the head.

Prayer citation

The new Catechism of the Catholic Church cites a brief personal prayer of St. Nicholas of Flue in paragraph #226[5] of Chapter 1 of Part 1, Section 2 "The Profession of the Christian Faith" under subheading IV "The implications of faith in one God", an aspect of which is making good use of created things.

My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you.

My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you.

My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you. 

Veneration

He was beatified in 1669. After his beatification, the municipality of Sachseln built a church in his honour, where his body was interred. He was canonized in 1947 by Pope Pius XII. His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is 21 March, except in Switzerland and Germany, where it is 25 September.

As a layman with family responsibilities who took his civic duties as an ancestral landowner seriously, Brother Klaus is a model of heroic manhood for many concerned with the flourishing of local communities and sustainable use of open land. He is the patron saint of the German-language association KLB (Katholischen Landvolkbewegung), the Catholic Rural Communities Movement.[6]

A plate from the Amtliche Luzerner Chronik of 1513 of Diebold Schilling the Younger, illustrating the events of the Tagsatzung at Stans in 1481. Top: A priest named Heini am Grund visits Niklaus von Flüe to ask him for his advice to save the failing Tagsatzung at Stans, where the delegates of the rural and urban cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy could not agree and threatened civil war. Bottom: Am Grund returned to the Tagsatzung and related Niklaus' advice, whereupon the delegates compromised. Am Grund is shown holding back a bailiff who wants to go and spread the good news already: Niklaus' advice remains secret to this day.

These seven medallions below contain additional symbols of acts of Christian kindness:

two crutches suggest Visiting the sick as a work of mercy

hiker's walking stick with travel pouch suggests Hospitality to strangers

a loaf of bread, fish and a pitcher of water and wine represent Feed the hungry, quench the thirsty

chains indicate Care for the incarcerated

Christ's garments evoke Clothe the naked

a coffin reminds us to Bury the dead

As conclusion, I repeat

All parties involved should cooperate for a serious commission looking and establishing the real facts about the death of the 7 nuns of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, invited in Yemen by the former Président, nuns killed in two places in Yemen with 12 collaborators !

 We need the truth to have a real peace !

M. François de Siebenthal, (born 1955 in Lausanne, Switzerland), is working, among others, for the newspaper "www.Versdemain.org " and for an institution called Louis Even "based in Canada