ANNOUNCEMENTS

LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERING PROJECT SELECTS LEGAL AID PARTNERS IN MARYLAND AND TEXAS

The Center has selected Maryland Legal Aid and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid as founding Project Partners for its new Local Human Rights Lawyering Project. With funding from the Ford Foundation, the project will train, coach and mentor attorneys from both organizations to help them integrate human rights arguments and strategies into their daily work.

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Summer 2012 Dean’s Fellowship

The Center is searching for Dean’s Fellows for the Summer 2012 semester to support an array of activities, including the planning and implementation of Center events and programming. Click here to visit our Student Involvement page for a complete description.

ANNOUNCING THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW STUDENT WRITING COMPETITION

The Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law and the American Society of International Law's Lieber Society seek submissions of papers for the second International Humanitarian Law Student Writing Competition.

Learn more and submit your paper by February 15, 2012 at 12:00PM (noon) EST.

NEWS AND EVENTS AT THE CENTER

Arpilleras: Fabric Art of Memory and Protest, An Evening with Roberta Bacic, in conversation with Joseph Eldridge

Sun., Mar. 4, 7:00-8:30pm, SIS Abramson Family Founders Room

Brave and creative women - whose husbands, brothers, and sons were among the desaparecidos (disappeared) of Augusto Pinochet's Chile - turned to the folk art of arpilleras, traditional story cloths, to stitch images of their reality. Join Roberta Bacic, one of many who helped to smuggle these works out of the country to raise awareness of Pinochet's human rights abuses, in a discussion with Joe Eldridge, American University's University Chaplain. More information.

WCL Students and Faculty Protest Guantanamo Bay at National Day of Action against Guantanamo

On January 11, a group of WCL Students and Faculty traveled to the White House to participate in the National day of Action against Guantanamo. The protest marked the 10th anniversary of the operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and called for the facility's closure. Visit the following website for news coverage of the event: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45958328.

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HUMAN RIGHTS BRIEF

Hrbrief.org is the go-to source for up-to-date coverage and legal analysis of contemporary human rights issues. The website features in-depth commentary on laws and policies affecting human rights, updates on the regional human rights systems, news from the international criminal tribunals and more. Visit www.hrbrief.org for more information.

RIGHTS WORK INITIATIVE: A NEW PROJECT OF THE PROGRAM ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND FORCED LABOR

Rights Work Initiative is a collaborative project created by the Center's Program on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor and the KOK network of German anti-trafficking organizations. Baerbel Heide Uhl and Program Director Ann Jordan invite you to join them in this new venture of critical inquiry and debate and hope that www.rightswork.org will become a trusted space for everyone who is seeking evidence-based information and analysis on anti-trafficking issues.

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