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Human Rights Month 2018 Panel - Business and Human Rights: Recent Developments in this Complex Relationship

Olivier de Schutter, Member, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United Nations, and Professor, Catholic University of Louvain / Miembro, Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, Naciones Unidas y Profesor, Universidad Católica de Louvain

Soledad García Muñoz, Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights, IACHR, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. / Relatora Especial sobre Derechos Económicos, Sociales, Culturales y Ambientales, CIDH, Organización de los Estados Americanos, Washington, D.C.

Mac Darrow, Representative, Washington DC Liaison Office, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights / Representante, Oficina de Representación de Washington D.C., Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos

Moderator/Moderadora: Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Senior Counsel, World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency, Washington, D.C. / Consejera Principal, Vicepresidencia Legal del Banco Mundial, Washington, D.C.

This panel will be in English/Este panel será en ingles pero se proveerá traducción

English/Inglés
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/human-rights-month/panels/ 

Spanish/Español
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/academia/actividades/paneles/ 

Human Rights Month 2018 Panel - Regional Human Rights Mechanisms in Times of Crisis: An Update on the Inter-American, European and African Systems

Pablo Saavedra, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica / Secretario Ejecutivo, La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, San José, Costa Rica

Christof Heyns, Member, Human Rights Committee, United Nations, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law at the University of Pretoria / Miembro, Comité de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, Profesor de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, y Director del Instituto para el Derecho Internacional y Comparativo, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Helen Duffy, Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, University of Leiden and Founder, Human Rights in Practice / Profesora de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Humanitario, University of Leiden, y Fundadora, Human Rights in Practice

Moderator/Moderadora: María Claudia Pulido (invited), Assistant Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. / (invitada), Secretaria Ejecutiva Adjunta, CIDH, Organización de los Estados Americanos, Washington D.C.

This panel will be in English/Este panel será en ingles pero se proveerá traducción

English/Inglés
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/human-rights-month/panels/

Spanish/Español
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/hracademy/academia/actividades/paneles/

Reproductive Justice Lawyering Webinar Series

 

June 13 and 20, 2018

2 - 3pm EST or 11 - 12pm PST

Co-Sponsored by the Women and the Law Program and If/When/How

June 13: Punitive Policies: How New Public Charge and Medicaid

Work Requirements Undermine Reproductive Justice

 

Sawyeh Esmaili, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, "Immigrant Families and Public Charge"
Kelsey Grimes, Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, "A Reproductive Justice Approach to Medicaid Work Requirements"

 

June 20: Centering Sex Worker's Rights in Reproductive Justice Work

 

Rebecca Wang, Positive Women's Network, "Let's Talk About Sex Work (Decriminalization)!"
Fajer Saeed Ebrahim, Legal Voice and SURGE Reproductive Justice, "Sex Work Decriminalization: The Case of Washington State"

 

Registration is free but required here and here.
1 CLE credit will be applied for as requested ($55).
For CLE credit or to request a fee waiver, email:
Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education
secle@wcl.american.edu

Comparative Judging: A Unique Course for All Judges

A Roundtable of Discussion among Judges
from the U.S., France, Italy, Japan and Brazil

Partial list of topics

The judicial career ;
How Judges are selected, trained and
disciplined;
Influence of high court
decisions , Enforcement
of orders , and more.

Led by U.S. District Judge Peter J . Messitte
Adjunt Professor of Comparative Law
(AUWCL)

Comparative Judging: A Unique Course for All Judges

A Roundtable of Discussion among Judges
from the U.S., France, Italy, Japan and Brazil

Partial list of topics

The judicial career ;
How Judges are selected, trained and
disciplined;
Influence of high court
decisions , Enforcement
of orders , and more.

Led by U.S. District Judge Peter J . Messitte
Adjunt Professor of Comparative Law
(AUWCL)