Workshop and Panel Discussion on Migrant Disappearances in Mexico

Part I :Workshop Sessions open to pre-registered BU Faculty, Students and Affiliates

Location: Pardee School of Global Studies-121 Bay State Road

9:30 - 11:00 am: Case Studies of Migrant Disappearances in Mexico/ Panelists: Fray Juan de Larios, Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de Derecho , Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense

11:10 - 12:30 : The Causes and Responses to Migrant Disappearances / Panelists : International Committee of the Red Cross/Swissnex Boston Colibri Center for Human Rights, International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project

1:30 -3:30pm: Strategies for Legal Challenges and Advocacy / Panelists: Peace Brigades International/USA; International Human Rights Law Clinic, BU Law; United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

3:30-4:30pm: Coffee break and breakout sessions for discussion

Part II: Public Forum open to BU community and general audience

Location: Rm 528-A, Boston University School of Law,765 Commonwealth Avenue

4:30-6:00pm: The Crisis of Migrant Disappearances in Mexico / Panelists: Bernard Duhaime, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; Michael Chamberlin, Fray Juan de Larios; Carmen Osorno Solis, Equipo Argentino de Antropolgia Forense; Rosmery Yax, Fundacion para la Justicia y el Estado Democratico de Derecho