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2003-2004 Events

October

Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Mary Robinson
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Former President of Ireland
"Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"
Moderated by Dean David Leebron Back to top

November

Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Craig Mokhiber
Officer-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights

Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Cynthia Soohoo
"Bringing Human Rights Home" Back to top

December

Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Luc Lampriere
Global Ethics Monitor, AFX
"A journalist looks at business and human rights"

Tuesday, December 2, 2003
Danilo Türk
Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
"Universal Values, Human Rights, Terrorism and the UN Today" Back to top

February

Monday, February 2, 2004
David Hecht
Former Chief of Press and Public Affairs
Special Court for Sierra Leone

"The Trials and Tribulation of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: an Inside View"

Monday, February 9, 2004
Kirsti Pohjankukka
New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
"Humanitarian Action, Human Rights, and Iraq"

Thursday, February 12, 2004
Richard Bourke
"Issues on Guantanamo Bay"

Monday, February 16, 2004
Dorchen Leidholdt, Esq. and Hilary Sunghee Seo, Esq.
Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered Women's Legal Services
"Sex trafficking in the United States?"

Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Alejandro Garro
Professor, Columbia Law School
"The Contribution of the Inter-American System on Human Rights in Latin America"

Thursday, February 19, 2004
David Gewirtzman
75-year-old Holocaust survivor
Jacqueline Murekatete
18-year-old survivor of the Rwandan genocide
"Conversations on Genocide"

Monday, February 23, 2004
Marc Garlasco
Senior Military Analyst, Arms Division, Human Rights Watch
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Pfaff
Foreign Area Officer, Joint Staff, Pentagon
"The Conduct of War and Humanitarian Law in Iraq"

Friday, Febrary 27, 2004
Jacqueline Moudeina
Lawyer for the victims of the exiled former dictator of Chad
Recipient of 2002 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defender
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March

Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Steven Watt
Center for Constitutional Rights
"Post 9.11 Litigation Strategies: Responses to Arbitrary Detention and Torture"

Monday, March 8, 2004
Peter Takirambudde
Director, Africa Division of Human Rights Watch
"Human Rights Strategies in Africa"

Thursday, March 11, 2004
Diane Orentlicher
Professor, Washington College of Law, American University
"Frontiers of Global Justice: War Crime Prosecutions From Augusto Pinochet to Saddam Hussein"

Monday, March 22, 2004
Naz Modirzadeh
"Iran and Human Rights"

Monday, March 29, 2004
Barbara Schulman
Amnesty International USA
Susan Sturm
Professor, Columbia Law School
"The New York City Human Rights Ordinance Initiative" Back to top

April

Monday, April 5, 2004
Justice Richard Goldstone
Retired from the Constitutional Court of South Africa
"The First Ten Years of South Africa's Constitutional Court" Back to top