Assessing Damage, Urging Action • the USA National Hearing was held in Washington DC and hosted by the American University Washington College of Law; a reception was hosted by the American Association for the International Commission of Jurists; • the Southern Cone sub-regional Hearing (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) was held in Buenos Aires, co-organised with the ICJ affiliate, the Centre for Legal and Social Studies and hosted by the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires; • the South East Asia sub-regional Hearing (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines) was held in Jakarta and co-organised with the human rights NGO, Imparsial; • the Russian Federation National Hearing was held in Moscow and co-organised with the ad hoc Steering Committee of Russian NGOs, including the Independent Council for Legal Expertise, Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, “Memorial” Human Rights Centre, Centre “Demos”, Nizhny Novgorod Committee against Torture, and Moscow Helsinki Group; • the South Asia sub-regional Hearing (Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka) was held in Delhi and co-organised with the Institute for Social Sciences; • the Pakistan National Hearing was held in Islamabad and co-organised with the ICJ affiliate, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan; • the Canada National Hearing was held in Toronto and Ottawa and Co-​organised with the Canadian Section of the ICJ; • the Middle East sub-regional Hearing (Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Yemen) was held in and co-organised with the ICJ affiliate, the Arab Centre for the Independence of Judges and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP); • the mission to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (as part of the Middle East sub-regional Hearing) was held in Jerusalem, co-organised with the Association for the Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) with the support of ADALAH; and in Gaza City and Ramallah, co-organised by the ICJ affiliate Al Haq and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; • the EU sub-regional Hearing was held in Brussels, in co-operation with the European Policy Center and hosted by solicitors, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and with the support of the Dutch Section of the ICJ; ICJ staff employed in regional programmes also provided assistance in connection with Hearings: Jumana Abo-Oxa, Associate Programme Officer, Middle East and North Africa assisted with the Israel/OPT Hearings; Said Benarbia, Legal Officer, 3