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2005-2006 Events

September

Monday, September 19, 2005
Greg Barker
Journalist
FRONTLINE filmmaker
"The Ghosts of Rwanda"

Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Senator Rudy Boschwitz
US Ambassador
UN Commission on Human Rights
"The US and the UN Commission on Human Rights"

Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Ken Wiwa
Journalist and Author
"The Price of Oil: In Remembrance of Ken Saro-Wiwa"

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Human Rights Roundtable

Thursday, September 29, 2005
Larry Garber
Executive Director, New Israel Fund
"The Role of Minorities in Post-disengagement Israel"

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October

Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Mila Rosenthal
Amnesty International, Director Business and Human Rights Program
"Wherever Business Goes, Human Rights Were There First"

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Lucas Benitez
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
"The Coalition of Immokalee Workers & Taco Bell: Corporate Responsibility in the U.S. Agricultural Industry"

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Jean- Marie Henckaerts
Legal Advisor, ICRC
"Customary International Humanitarian Law: A Contribution to the Understanding and Respect for the Rule of Law in Armed Conflict"

Monday, October 24, 2005
Judge Juan Guzman Tapia
Judge in Pinochet trial
"Lessons from Pinochet"

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Hina Jilani
Pakistani human rights lawyer
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, United Nations

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Manfred Nowak
Law Professor, University of Vienna
Special Rapporteur on Torture, United Nations

Thursday, October 27, 2005
Asma Jahangir
Pakistani human rights lawyer
Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, United Nations

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November

Thursday, November 3, 2005
Jim Ross
Human Rights Watch
"A Few Bad Apples?  The Torture Debate Through History"

Friday, November 4, 2005
Philip Alston
Law Professor, New York University
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, United Nations

"Ships Passing in the Night: Human Rights and the MDGs"

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Jeffrey Sachs
Professor, Columbia University
Special Advisor on the Millennium Development Goals, United Nations

"The Poverty Trap and the Millennium Development Goals"

Thursday, November 10, 2005
Terri Collingsworth
International Labor Rights Fund
"Holding Corporations Accountable for Human Rights Violations in the Global Economy"

Thursday, November 17, 2005
Valerie Oosterveld
Law Professor, University of Western Ontario
"International Criminal Justice, Peace and Politics: Making Gender Matter"

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January

Tuesday, January 12, 2006
Sarah Cleveland
Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law
Brandt Goldstein
Attorney and Writer "Storming the Court"
Gerald L. Neuman
Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School
Michael Wishnie
Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law
"Guantanamo: Then and Now"

Monday, January 30, 2006
Corinne Carey
Human Rights Watch
"Banishment or Facilitated Re-entry: A Human Rights Perspective"

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February

Monday, February 1, 2006
Marc Garlasco
Human Rights Watch
"The McCain Amendment and the Treatment of Detainees by the US in the 'War on Terror'"

Tuesday, February 2, 2006
Stefanie Grant
Professor Louis Henkin
"Migrants in Limbo: Forced Migration in an Age of Terrorism, Trafficking and Iris Scans"

Monday, February 6, 2006
Gabor Rona
International Legal Director, Human Rights First
"Re-evaluating the Rules of the Game in a new Century"

Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Annie Sparrow
Researcher, Human Rights Watch
"Accidental Advocate: From Health to Human Rights"

Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Marc Falkoff
Covington & Burling
"Guantánamo and the Graham Amendment"

Monday, February 20, 2006
Julia Harrington
Open Society Institute Justice Initiatives
"From Banjul to Bangladesh: Working with Emerging Institutions and Norms in International Human Rights"

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Nisha Varia
Asia Researcher, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
"Swept Under the Rug: Abuses against Migrant Domestic Workers"

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Richard Dicker
Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch
"Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Efforts to End Impunity for Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity"

Monday, February 27, 2006
Ian Gary
Policy Advisor for Extractive Industries, Oxfam America
"Oil, Mining and Human RIghts"

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March

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Juan Mendez
President, International Center for Transitional Justice
Special Advisor on Genocide, United Nations

"Update: Taking Action to Prevent Genocide: Security, Relief, and Accountability"

Monday, March 7, 2006
Steven Watt
Staff Attorney, ACLU
"Renditions and Recent Landmark Lawsuits"

Monday, March 20, 2006
Walter Kalin
Professor at Bern University
UN Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
"Internal Displacement- Problems, Challenges, and Perspectives"

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Suliman Baldo
Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group
"From Grass Roots Activism to Multinational Advocacy"

Wednesday, March 22,. 2006
Alex Vines
Head of Africa Programme, Chatham House
"Are Sanctions Useful Tools to Avert Further Crisis in Africa"

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Bijou Matthews
Asst. Professor Rider University and Organizing Committee of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance
"Taxi!  Cabs and Capitalism in New York City"

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Paul van Zyl
Program Director, International Center for Transitional Justice
"New Fontiers: The Evolving Field of Transitional Justice: Lessons from Iraq, Uganda, Timor Leste, Peru and Beyond"

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Daria Caliguire
Director, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
"The Evolution of ESC Rights and the ESCR-Net"

Thursday, March 30, 2006
Rob Varenik
Open Society Justice Initiative
"Lighting Fires in Mexico: Fanning the Flame of Human Rights Advocacy"

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April

April 20, 2006
Baltasar Garzon
Judge
Jose Miguel Vivanco
Executive Director/Americas Division, Human Rights Watch
"Public International Practice and Human Rights in Latin America"

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May

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Miriam Lewin
Author of "That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Camp"

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