ISHALC, represented by its president Eduardo Leite, together with ILANUD (the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders), brought together at the forum ILANUD director Elias Carranza; the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, Professor Yukio Takasu; Brazilian Supreme Court justice Roberto Barroso; Inter-American Court of Human Rights judge Raúl Zaffaroni; the Austrian ambassador Thomas Stelzer; and COPLAD coordinator Professor Edmundo Oliveira, among other officials.