PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME UPDATE: JUNE 6TH 2013
PALACIO MUNICIPAL DE CONGRESOS (AT CAMPO DE LAS NACIONES), MADRID.
This is a temporary program, the speakers list and order might be subject to modifications
Opening ceremony Wednesday 12th June 2013 17:00 – 18:30 Auditorium of Palacio Municipal de Congresos
Official closing ceremony Saturday 15th June 2013 10:30– 12:30 Callao City Lights
e YOUR CONTACT: Murielle Vauthier, 5 th World Congress coordinator • [email protected] • +33 1 80 87 70 49
Wednesday June 12th
17:00 -18:30 ● Auditorium, Palacio Municipal de Congresos
Opening ceremony
Official opening: 17:00
- Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, General Director, « Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) » - Together against the Death Penalty, France - Michael Binyon, Journalist of The Times, Host of the ceremony, United Kingdom - Tanya Ibar, Personal testimony, United States
Official interventions of intergovernmental organisations - Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General (written message) - Abdou Diouf, Secretary General of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (video message)
Intervention (panel) of the States sponsoring the 5th World Congress
- Gry Larsen, Deputy-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway - Didier Burkhalter, Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland - Laurent Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France - José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Spain
Contemporary Dance « ¿Hasta dónde? » Cie Sharon Fridman
Global commitment against the death penalty
- Nassirou Bako Arifari, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Benin - Hassan Al-Shimari, Minister of Justice, Irak - Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa Magistrado de Lima, Minister of Justice, Philippines - Aziz Krichen, Minister Counsellor to the President, Tunisia - Julie Prudence Nigna Somda, Minister of Human Rights and Civic Promotion, Burkina Faso
Intervention of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (video message)
Presentation of the Congress General Programme - Murielle Vauthier, Coordinator of the 5th World Congress, France
Family photo of the personalities
Ceremony followed by a cocktail reception
Palacio Municipal de Congresos – 7 Avenida Capital de España Madrid – Madrid / 5th World Congress against the death penalty- 12/15 June 2013
Saturday June 15th
10:30-12:30 ● Callao City Lights
Official closing ceremony
Ceremony presentation by Cristina Sanchez, Radio Television Española (RTVE)
Official interventions of intergovernmental organisations
- Ms. Navi Pillay, United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights - Stavros Lambrinidis, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights - Federico Mayor, Former Director General of UNESCO, President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty
Intervention of the States against the Death Penalty: - Didier Reynders, Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Belgium - Mario Giro, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italy - Gonzalo de Benito, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, Spain
Initiatives in favour of the abolition: common messages
- Parliamentarian against the Death Penalty - Bars against the Death Penalty: messages of Bar Associations presidents’. Message by the Bars of Paris, India and the Fundación Abogacia Española - Diplomats against the Death Penalty: core group at the World Congress
Universal appeal against the Death Penalty by Nobel Laureates introduced by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Laureate in 2003, Iran
Musical Interlude - Ara Malikian, Musicien
Concluding remarks
World Coalition against the Death Penalty: - Florence Bellivier and Kevin Miguel Rivera Medina, Spokespersons for the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Reading of the Final Declaration of participants By personalities from the intellectual and cultural arena, in three languages (Spanish, English and French)
Closing Intervention - Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice who abolished the death penalty in France, member of the International Commission against the Death Penalty - Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, General Director & Emmanuel Maistre, Secretary General, Together against the Death Penalty (ECPM), France
Ceremony followed by a symbolic march starting at Callao City Lights.
Palacio Municipal de Congresos – 7 Avenida Capital de España Madrid – Madrid / 5th World Congress against the death penalty- 12/15 June 2013