Santiago Canton, executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights speaks at UM symposium

The Inter-American Law Review (IALR) at the University of Miami School of Law hosted its 2009 Symposium titled Righting Wrongs: The Inter-American System of Human Rights after 50 Years on Saturday, March 7th from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Storer Auditorium at the UM School of Business Administration.

International experts gathered at the symposium to discuss the roles that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have played in changing the lives of those affected by human rights abuses in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA; Santiago Canton, executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Carlos Ayala Coroa, former chairman of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Rick Wilson, founding director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American Universitys Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., and member of the Board of Directors of the World Organization for Human Rights, U.S.A.

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