Presentations
8h00-9h30
Welcome and Registration
9h30-10h00
Opening Session
Catarina Sarmento e Castro | Portuguese Minister of Justice (Pre-recorded speech)
Katarzyna Janicka-Pawlowska | European Commission Coordinator for Victims’ rights
Laura Vaik | National Member for Estonia and Acting Chair of the working group on victims’ rights at the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (EuroJust)
João Lázaro | President of the Portuguese Association for Victim Support
10h00-10h30
Victims’ Right to Information: The Infovictims Model
Frederico Moyano Marques | Chief Operations Officer and Senior Adviser to the Board of APAV
Eike Eberle | Weisser Ring
Markéta Vitoušová | Bily Kruh Bezpeci
Iro Michael | European Public Law Organisation
Algimantas Cepas | Vilnius Institute for Advanced Studies
Andrea Poltronieri | Associazione Libra
10h30-11h30
Debate: Information and Support to Victims’ at Court
Accompaniment of victims of terrorism
To be connected: the system as a potential reparative space for children and young people victims of violence
Victim Support at Court
Project FYDO: Facility dogs assisting victims of crime
11h30-12h00
Coffee-break
12h00-13h00
Debate: how to humanise the Criminal Justice System in the Victims’ Perspective
Moderator: Levent Altan
Cristina Soeiro | Forensic Psychologist at the Institute for Judiciary Police and Criminal Sciences and Vice-President of APAV
Miguel Carmo | Prosecuter, Adviser of the Attorney General’s Office
Rosa Jansen | President of Slachtofferhulp Nederland
13h00-14h30
Lunch break
14h30-15h30
Debate: Do’s and don’ts in communicating with victims
Moderator: Antony Pemberton
#1 The role of the media in informing, communicating for and with victims
Sara Melo Rocha | Journalist at CNN Portugal
#2 Ethics in Support at a Distance
Bianca Biwer | Federal Executive Director - Weisser Ring Germany
#3 Best Practices in information and communication with victims in the justice system
Frida Wheldon | Development Director Legal of Affairs at Victim Support Sweden
15h30-15h45
A victim’s experience in the justice system: interview
15h45-16h30
Coffee-break
16h30-17h30
Victims Rights’ Package: What Lies Ahead?
Moderator: Rosa Jansen
The EU Victims’ Rights Package – proposal for revision of the victims’ directive
Katarzyna Janicka-Pawlowska | European Commission Coordinator for Victims’ rights
Levent Altan | Executive Director of Victim Support Europe
Proposal for a Council of Europe Recommendation on Assistance to Crime Victims
Antony Pemberton | KU Leuven
17h30-17h45
Closing Session
Lucília Gago | Attorney General