Human Rights Month 2008 Brochure
Panels
Human Rights and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Hopes and Challenges Santiago Cantón, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Steve Crawshaw, UN Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch, New York Eric Rosand, Senior Fellow, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation Martin Scheinin, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Commentator: Robert K. Goldman, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law |
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UN Special Procedures: a Conversation with the Experts on the Future and Impact of these Mechanisms Santiago Corcuera, UN Rapporteur and Chair, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Gay McDougall, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Commentator: Claudio Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law |
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Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Principal Specialist, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Antonio Cançado Trindade, Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Rodrigo Durango Cordero, Attorney, Attorney General's Office, Ecuador Commentator: Claudia Martin, Co-Director, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law |
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Ernesto de la Jara, Founder, Legal Defense Institute, Peru Francisco Quintana, Associate Director, Center for Justice and International Law Margarita Rey, Human Rights Advisor, Colombian Mission to the Organization of American States Commentator: Matias Hernandez, Researcher-in-Residence, Washington College of Law |
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Current Status of the Inter-American Human Rights System: a Reflection on the "Reform Process" Carlos Ayala, Former President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Juan Méndez, President, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Co-Director, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Commentator: Robert K. Goldman, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law |
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The Duty to Prosecute and Punish and the Interaction between Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Douglass Cassel, Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Juan Mendez, President, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York Rodrigo Uprimny, Director, Research Centrer for Law, Justice and Society (DeJuSticia), Colombia Johan Vande Lanotte, Professor, Ghent University, and former Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium Diane Orentlicher, Professor of International Law, Washington College of Law |
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The Role of Human Rights Supervisory Bodies in Applying Humanitarian Law: Benefits and Drawbacks Philip Sundel, Deputy Legal Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross Robert Goldman, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law Leo Zwaak, Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University Commentator: Elizabeth Andersen, Executive Director, American Society of International Law
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Film Festival
Yesterday, 2004
A South African woman struggles with HIV while trying to secure a successful future for her daughter
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God Grew Tired of Us, 2006
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Iraq in Fragments, 2006
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Workshops
Cómo Utilizar los Procedimientos Especiales de Naciones Unidas como Parte de una Estrategia de Derechos Humanos: Aspectos Prácticos
Federico Adnreu - Guzmán , Deputy Secretary General, International Commission of Juirists, Geneva, Switzerland Santiago Corcuera Cabezut, UN Rapporteur and Chsit, Eorking Group on Enforced Disappearances |
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How to Incorporate UN Special Procedures in a Human Rights Strategy
Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Martin Scheinin, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter - Terrorism |
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An Update on the Work of the International Criminal Court
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