Tirza Leibowitz, Survivor Corps’ Director of Rights Advocacy, gives an update on the progress of Cartagena Summit.
It’s a pleasure to have met up with everyone — Kim Hoa, Shireen,
Albert, Zeljko, Ramiz, Jesus, Bekele, Jairo, Riley, (Nate joining this
evening) — and to work together as a team.
Highlights from today’s events:
1. Our side event on Towards Survivorship — From Victim to Citizen —
facilitated by Jairo, was a smashing success: Full house, very
interesting discussion. Jairo did a wonderful job facilitating. Riley,
Shireen, Kim Hoa, and Nerina were all helping behind the scenes.
Participants were left with a desire for more. The subject is
pertinent to victim assistance discussed here at the Conference, and
beyond. Zeljko was one of the panelists, together with two of our own.
2. The ICBL just made the closing remarks in the plenary discussion,
on victim assistance. We were notable authors of this intervention —
which won applause at the end, and more importantly, pressed forth
three clear messages to states parties, about the need to support and
implement the Cartagena Action Plan, continue substantial victim
assistance funding and earmark it so its allocation to victim
assistance programs is assured, and to use the CRPD as the human
rights framework for implementing victim assistance including signing,
ratifying and implementing it.
3. In general, the CRPD has been very prominent in most of the states’
interventions, and in the ICBL one. We can attribute this development
very much to our efforts over the years and in the last few months
leading up to the Summit.
A few more highlights from the last few days:
December 01, 2009, 12:00pm Comments
