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2008

June 2008

6/5 Teaching IHL Institute
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: 4910 Mass Ave, Suite 16 (lower level)
 
6/5 Challenges Remaining In The Final Years Of The Ad Hoc Tribunals For The Former Yugoslavia And Rwanda
Time: 02:30PM - 04:00PM
Location: 6th Floor, JD Student Lounge
 
6/4 Teaching IHL Institute
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: 4910 Mass Ave, Suite 16 (lower level)
 

April 2008

4/22 The Role of Law Schools in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: 603
 
4/21 Prof. Michael Tigar Emeritus Status Dinner & Kickoff of the Role of the Law School in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights Conf.
Time: 07:00PM - 09:00PM
Location: 6th Floor
 
4/15 Murky Waters: Fighting World Bank-Financed Water Privatization
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL Rm. 602
 
4/3 Olympian Violence Erupting in Tibet
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL 602
 

March 2008

3/31 International Perspectives on Implementation of the New UN Disability Rights Convention
Time: 12:00PM - 01:30PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
3/31 Disability Rights Convention Strategy Session
Time: 12:00PM - 05:30PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
3/7 Right to Identity in the Americas: The Role of Civil Society
Time: 09:30AM - 01:30PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
3/3 Resisting Military Rule: Leaders of Pakistani Lawyers Movement Speak Out
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL 603
 

February 2008

2/21 GENEVA SIMULCAST: CERD Committee Review of US Compliance with Race Treaty
Time: 03:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: 4910 Large Conference Room
 
2/19 Race in the US Today: Complying with International Norms and CERD?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: Room 100
 
2/18 Week of Activity Reviewing US Compliance with the Race Treaty (CERD)
Location: Various Locations
 
2/6 The Role of Lawyers in Promoting Judicial Independence in Pakistan
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Rm. 603
 

January 2008

1/30 Action for Human Rights
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
1/16 What's the SAB?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
1/16 Human Rights Happy Hour
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 

2007

November 2007

11/15 Torture Around the World
Time: 06:00PM - 07:30PM
Location: American University Museum in the Katzen
 
11/14 Human Rights Happy Hour
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: 6th Floor JD Student Lounge
 
11/13 Munching on Human Rights: Exploring the Intersection of Human Rights and IP, Business, and Environmental Law
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Rm. 401
 
11/9 Human Rights Advocates Under Attack!: A Lunch and Discussion with Guatemalan Activist Ruth Del Valle
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: 4910 Mass. Ave, Suite 16, Large Conference Rm.
 
11/8 Customary International Humanitarian Law: Assessing The Impact of the 2005 ICRC Report
Time: 02:00PM - 04:30PM
Location: 4910 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 16, Conference Room
 
11/8 Eighth Annual Human Rights Film Series: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Time: 05:30PM - 08:00PM
Location: Katzen Arts Center
 

October 2007

10/24 Eighth Annual Human Rights Film Series: The Refugee All Stars
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: WCL Rm 603
 
10/23 Cool Human Rights Work I Did on My Summer Vacation
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Rm. 402
 
10/17 Eighth Annual Human Rights Film Series: Devil's Miner
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: WCL Rm 603
 
10/16 Munching on Human Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Inalienable Rights or New Concepts?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Rm. 401
 
10/3 Human Rights Coffee Hour
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
10/3 Eighth Annual Human Rights Film Series: Encounter Point
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: WCL Rm 603
 

September 2007

9/19 Teaching Gender and Human Rights in the Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan)
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
9/11 Munching on Human Rights: An Introduction to Human Rights Law
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Rm. 401
 

August 2007

8/30 What is the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law? How to Get Involved in Human Rights at WCL
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Rm. 402
 
8/15 Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Welcome Reception
Time: 02:30PM - 04:00PM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 

June 2007

6/6 Events/Talks: Improving Conditions of Confinement in US Prisons and Jails through National Monitoring and Inspection: A Meeting with the UN Rapporteur Against Torture
Time: 12:00PM - 02:00PM
Location: WCL Room 503
 

May 2007

5/17 Workshops & Conferences: Racial Discrimination in the US Criminal Justice System and International Human Rights Standards: Reporting to CERD
Time: 09:00AM - 05:30PM
Location: WCL, Room 603
 

April 2007

4/9 Workshops & Conferences: From United Nations Consensus to State Implementation: How An International Convention May Impact the Rights of People with Disabilities
Time: 08:00AM - 06:00PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
4/4 Complementary Education: Munching on Human Rights: Current Issues of the Inter-American Human Rights System, featuring Diego Rodriquez-Pinzon
Time: 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Location: Room 602
 

March 2007

3/28 Events/Talks: THE CONFLICT ON THE DURAND LINE OF PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN: STRUGGLING FOR RIGHTS OR SURVIVAL?
Time: 12:30PM - 01:30AM
Location: WCL Rm. 600
 
3/22 Complementary Education: Munching on Human Rights:Comparative Approaches to Enforcement of Human Rights: India & the United States
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: TBD
 
3/7 Events/Talks: Testify to Repression: The Oaxaca Delegation Reports Back
Time: 04:00PM - 05:30PM
Location: WCL Room 600
 
3/7 Complementary Education: Radical Ideas in Human Rights Reform: The Equality of Arms: Genocide Trials Before the ICTR.
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00AM
Location: Large Conf. Room 4910 Mass Ave.
 
3/6 Events/Talks: Hudood ki Hud: A report on Feminist Activism in Pakistan
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: Room 524
 

February 2007

2/28 Complementary Education: Munching on Human Rights: The Law of War and the Rules of Occupation: A Primer, featuring Professor Bob Goldman
Time: 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Location: Room 602
 
2/28 Complementary Education: RADICAL IDEAS IN HUMAN RIGHTS REFORM: Blood Money or Justice? Compensating War Victims
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: Center for Human Rights, Large Conference Room, 4910 Massachusetts Avenue
 
2/27 Events/Talks: Comparative Perspectives on Religion and Human Rights: A Panel Discussion with the 2006-2007 Humphrey Fellows
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Room 602
 
2/22 Workshops & Conferences: U.S. Education Law and its Human Rights Impact
Time: 09:00AM - 04:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 603
 
2/14 Outreach: Valentine's Day Human Rights Happy Hour
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: WCL 6th Floor JD Student Lounge
 
2/2 Events/Talks: Human Rights Impact of China's Investment in Africa: A Roundtable Discussion
Time: 09:30AM - 12:00PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
2/1 Events/Talks: Promoting Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Discussion with Michael Njong, former Humphrey Fellow
Time: 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Location: Room 602
 

January 2007

1/31 Events/Talks: National Security and Human Rights: Lessons Learned from Israel and the U.S. – First Annual US-Israel Civil Liberties Fellows Event
Time: 06:00PM - 08:30PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
1/24 Outreach: Action for Human Rights Coffee Hour
Time: 08:30AM - 10:00AM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
1/23 Outreach: Screening: "Uganda: The Invisible Children"
Time: 06:30PM - 08:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 603
 
1/19 Outreach: Genocide Teaching Project Summit
Time: 12:00PM - 02:00PM
Location: Rm. 402
 
1/17 Events/Talks: What's The SAB?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. TBA
 

2006

November 2006

11/28 Events/Talks: “The Challenges of Human Rights Activism In Tunisia,” Featuring: Samir Dilou, Tunisian Human Rights Activist
Time: 01:30PM - 03:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 500
 
11/28 Outreach: Human Rights Happy Hour
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: Student Lounge 6th Floor
 
11/14 Complementary Education: Munching on Human Rights: What Is the Difference Between International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights and International Criminal Law?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL Rm. 602
 
11/13 Events/Talks: Failure to Protect: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 501
 
11/2 Events/Talks: Exposing Sexual Violence Behind Bars: The Implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Room 601
 
11/2 Outreach: Human Rights Happy Hour
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
11/2 Events/Talks: Day of the Dead Celebration: Death on the Border: Mujeres de Juarez and the Wall
Time: 05:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: Room 603
 
11/1 Complementary Education: Alternative Winter Break Bakesale
Time: 10:00AM - 04:00AM
Location: front lobby
 
11/1 Events/Talks: Day of the Dead Celebration: Documentary on Femicide in Ciudad Juarez
Time: 12:00PM - 01:30PM
Location: Room 603
 

October 2006

10/24 Outreach: Seventh Annual Human Rights Film Series: China Blue
Time: 06:00PM - 10:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 603
 
10/18 Events/Talks: Rendition to Torture - The Case of Maher Arar
Time: 12:30PM - 01:20PM
Location: Room 100
 
10/17 Outreach: Seventh Annual Human Rights Film Series: Maquillapolis
Time: 06:00PM - 10:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
10/12 Events/Talks: Cool Human Rights Work I Did on My Summer Vacation
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL Rm. 602
 
10/10 Outreach: Seventh Annual Human Rights Film Series: The Agronomist
Time: 06:00PM - 10:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
10/5 Workshops&Conferences: Guantanamo Teach-In
Time: 11:00AM - 10:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 603
 
10/4 Complementary Education: Munching on Human Rights: What Is the Universal Bill of Human Rights?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL Rm. 402
 
10/3 Outreach: Seventh Annual Human Rights Film Series: Amandla!
Time: 06:00PM - 10:00PM
Location: WCL 6th Floor Student Lounge
 

September 2006

9/29 Workshops&Conferences: Responsibility to Protect: The Case of Sudan
Time: 09:30AM - 04:30PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
9/28 Events/Talks: Darfur Activism Week Information Table
Time: 09:30AM - 04:00PM
Location: WCL Lobby
 
9/27 Events/Talks: Darfur Diaries Screening
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
9/26 Events/Talks: Darfur Activism Week Bake Sale
Time: 09:00AM - 04:00PM
Location: WCL Lobby
 
9/26 Workshops&Conferences: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Implications of Military Commissions
Time: 09:30AM - 01:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
9/25 Events/Talks: Darfur Activism Week Information Table
Time: 09:30AM - 04:00PM
Location: Lobby
 
9/24 Events/Talks: Amnesty International Lobbying Training
Time: 12:00PM - 03:00PM
Location: Capitol Hill
 
9/19 Events/Talks: LL.M Coffee Hour: What is the Center? How to Get Involved in Human Rights at WCL
Time: 04:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: International Student Lounge
 
9/12 Complementary Education: Munching on Human Rights: What is Human Rights?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: WCL Rm. 602
 

August 2006

8/30 Events/Talks: What is the Human Rights Center? How to Get Involved in Human Rights at WCL
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: WCL 603
 
8/29 Events/Talks: One Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina:
Time: 09:00AM - 10:00PM
Location: WCL and Lafayette Square
 
8/16 Events/Talks: Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law- Welcome Reception for New Students
Time: 03:00PM - 04:00PM
Location: Student Lounge
 

May 2006

5/26 Training: 11th Annual Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: Washington College of Law
 
5/26 Training: Inter-American HR Moot Court Competition Final Round
Time: 10:00AM - 01:00PM
Location: WCL 603
 
5/26 Training: Inter-American HR Moot Court Competition Awards Luncheon
Time: 01:30PM - 03:30PM
Location: WCL Cafeteria
 
5/25 Training: Inter-American HR Moot Court Competition Semi-Final Round
Time: 09:00AM - 02:00PM
Location: WCL (various rooms)
 
5/25 Training: 11th Annual Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: Washington College of Law
 
5/25 Training: Inter-American HR Moot Court Competition Dean's Reception
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: WCL Cafeteria
 
5/24 Training: Inter-American HR Moot Court Competition Preliminary Round
Time: 09:00AM - 06:30PM
Location: WCL (various rooms)
 
5/24 Training: 11th Annual Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: Washington College of Law
 
5/23 Training: Inter-American HR Moot Court Competition Preliminary Round
Time: 09:00AM - 06:30PM
Location: WCL (various rooms)
 
5/23 Training: 11th Annual Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: Washington College of Law
 
5/22 Training: Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition Opening Breakfast
Time: 09:00AM - 11:00AM
Location: WCL 603
 
5/22 Training: 11th Annual Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Time: 09:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: Washington College of Law
 
5/22 Training: Inter-American HR Moot Court Competition Preliminary Round
Time: 11:00AM - 06:30PM
Location: WCL (various rooms)
 

April 2006

4/25 Events/Talks: Reception and Book Signing in Honor of Professor Rick Wilson
Time: 05:30PM - 06:30PM
Location: Washington College of Law- Dean's Suite
 
4/11 Workshops&Conferences: Human Rights Implications of Hurricane Katrina: 6 Months Later
Time: 10:00AM - 05:00PM
Location: Washington College of Law- Room 603
 
4/6 Workshops&Conferences: Perspectives On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the United States
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: Room 602
 
4/5 Events/Talks: The Right to a Fair Trial and Its Challenges - Podcast
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: Room 501
 

March 2006

3/7 Complementary Education: Human Rights Defenders Speaker Series Global Challenges to Women's Human Rights: The Case of Cameroon In Honor of International Women's Day
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: Rm 100
 

February 2006

2/8 Complementary Education: Human Rights Defender Speakers Series Featuring a Panel Discussion with WCL Humphrey Fellows
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: WCL Room 401
 

January 2006

1/23 Complementary Education: Human Rights Defenders Speaker Series Featuring Justine Rukeba Mbabazi (Rwanda)
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: WCL Room 401
 
1/23 Outreach: The Invisible Children
Time: 06:30PM - 08:00PM
Location: Washington College of Law Room #603
 
1/19 Events/Talks: Discussion with Aryeh Neier on Economic and Social Rights
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: 602
 

2005

November 2005

11/29 Events/Talks: Corruption and Women's Rights in Nigeria
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: TBA
 
11/16 Complementary Education: Human Rights Defenders Speaker Series: Ababu Namwamba
Time: 12:00PM - 12:50PM
Location: Room 401
 
11/15 Workshops&Conferences: Join us on the Hill! Congressional Human Rights Lecture Series: Hadar Harris, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, on “US Treaty Obligations”
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: Capitol Hill, Rm. TBA
 
11/8 Complementary Education: Human Rights Defender Speaker Series: Dr. Asha Bajpai
Time: 12:30PM - 01:30PM
Location: Rm. 402
 
11/2 Outreach: Sixth Annual Human Rights Film Series featuring 5 Short Documentaries on Burma
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 

October 2005

10/25 Complementary Education: Human Rights Defenders Speaker Series Presents Farida Ghulam Ismail, Women's Rights Activist (Bahrain)
Time: 05:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: WCL 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
10/20 Workshops&Conferences: Prosecuting Pinochet: The Challenges and Obstacles to the Pursuit of Justice in Chile
Time: 04:00PM - 06:00PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
10/19 Events/Talks: Gender and Legal Education in India Brown Bag
Time: 12:00PM - 01:20PM
Location: Room 503
 
10/19 Outreach: Sixth Annual Human Rights Film Series featuring Videoletters
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
10/18 Workshops&Conferences: Congressional Human Rights Lecture Series: Jamin Raskin on the Spread of Freedom and the Right to Vote and Political Democracy
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: TBA
 
10/6 Events/Talks: Join the International Solidarity Fast for Darfur
Time: 08:30AM - 05:30PM
Location: WCL Lobby
 
10/5 Outreach: Action for Human Rights Coffee Hour
Time: 08:30AM - 10:00AM
Location: 6th Floor Student Lounge
 
10/5 Outreach: Sixth Annual Human Rights Film Series featuring State of Fear
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
10/3 Events/Talks: Storming the Court: the Story of the Yale Law Clinic's Case to Free Haitian Refugees on Guantanamo
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: WCL Room 401
 

September 2005

9/28 Workshops&Conferences: The Reaffirmation of Custom as an Important Source of International Humanitarian Law: Conference to Mark the Publication of the ICRC Study on
Time: 09:00AM - 03:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 603
 
9/19 Events/Talks: Panel Discussion and Movie Screening on: The Implications for Human Rights When Indigenous Populations Are Forcefully Displaced From Their Homeland
Time: 05:00PM - 07:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 603
 
9/16 Workshops&Conferences: Race, Class and 'Refugees': the Human Rights Implications of Hurricane Katrina
Time: 12:00PM - 02:00PM
Location: WCL Rm. 602
 
9/13 Workshops&Conferences: Congressional Human Rights Lecture Series: Diane Orentlicher on the Structures of the UN Human Rights System and the Move to Reform
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: TBA
 
9/8 Outreach: Genocide Teaching Project Training for Students Part 2
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
9/7 Outreach: Genocide Teaching Project Training for Students Part 1
Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
Location: Rm. 603
 
9/6 Events/Talks: Cool Human Rights Work I Did on My Summer Vacation
Time: 11:50AM - 01:00PM
Location: Rm. 401
 
9/1 Events/Talks: What is the Center? How to Get Involved in Human Rights at WCL?
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: Rm. 402
 

August 2005

8/17 Events/Talks: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Welcome Reception for New Students
Time: 03:00PM - 04:00PM
Location: Student Lounge
 

July 2005

7/19 Workshops&Conferences: Congressional Human Rights Lecture Series: Robert K. Goldman on What are the Rules that Govern the War on Terror
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: TBA
 
7/17 Events/Talks: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Summer Picnic
Time: 11:00AM - 04:00PM
Location: VIrginia Highlands Park
 

May 2005

5/18 Workshops&Conferences: Beyond Roper: International Laws and Standards for the Treatment of Children in Conflict with the Law
Time: 08:30AM - 06:00PM
Location: WCL Room 603
 
5/17 Workshops&Conferences: Congressional Human Rights Lecture Series
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
Location: TBA
 
5/6 Workshops&Conferences: IM for HR: Instant Messaging for Human Rights
Time: 08:30AM - 06:00PM
Location: Room 603