11th Annual Human Rights on the Hill! Schedule of events and speakers 8/15-17
I’m speaking Thursday at 1:30 but look at the whole terrific lineup of speakers on peace, justice, human rights and environmental issues below!
The Eleventh Annual University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law International Human & Peoples’ Rights Law Program – Human Rights on the Hill – in collaboration with the Hawaii Institute for Human Rights and the Four Freedoms Forum, will take place from August 13 – 18, 2012 at the UDC Law School Building, 4340 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington DC 20008 (Van Ness/UDC Metro)
August 15 Wednesday
*9:00 a.m.
Building Movements for the Just Transition to an Ecologically Sane Economy
Janet Redman
Co-Director Sustainable Energy & Economy Network
Institute for Policy Studies
*10:30 a.m.
Human Rights in Asia:
The Case of Uyghurs Campaign for Dignity & Self-Determination
Rebiya Kadeer
World Uyghur Congress
Uyghur Human Rights Project
*12:00 p.m.
8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
Rio+20 Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Conversations with the Earth Indigenous Voices on Climate Change
WITNESS Testify! & Youth on Climate Change
*1:30 p.m.
The Universal Periodic Review in the United States of America
Kelly C. Landry
Foreign Affairs Officer
U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
*3:00 p.m.
Climate Change & Human Rights
Siobhan McInerney-Lankford
Senior Policy Officer, Institutions, Law and Partnerships for Human Rights
The World Bank
*4:00 p.m.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child:
Potential for Ratification & Realization for Children’s Rights in America
Mark Engman
UNICEF USA
August 16 Thursday
*9:00 a.m.
The Right to Water at Rio+20 &
The Rights of Nature Movement in International Law
Darcey O’Callaghan
International Policy Director
Food and Water Watch
*10:30 a.m.
Local Human Rights Lawyering:
Bringing the Global Human Rights Movement
Home to Our Grassroots Community
Lauren Bartlett
Local Human Rights Lawyering Project Director
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
American University Washington College of Law
12:00 p.m.
8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
Rio+20 Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Miss South Pacific Beauty and the Sea
*1:30 p.m.
America’s Foreign Policy Rooted in Peace, Human Rights & Rule of Law:
A New Direction from End of Empire to Era of Multilateral Engagement for Democracy
Kevin Martin
Executive Director, Peace Action
*3:00 p.m.
Connecting with Disenfranchised Communities in the United States of America &
Around the World to Promote Human Rights:
The Role of a Peacemaker
Global Citizenship:
Roles & Responsibilities
Michael Beer
Executive Director, Nonviolence International
4:30 p.m.
A Conversation Across the Country of a Midterm Analysis
of the Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America
Joshua Cooper
Director, Four Freedoms Forum
August 17 Friday
*9:00 a.m.
The Organization of American States: Human Rights in the Americas
Luis Toro
Senior Legal Officer
Department of International Law
*10:30 a.m.
Nonviolence in a Time of War
Colman McCarthy
Director, Center for Teaching Peace
Columnist, The Washington Post
12:00 p.m.
8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
Rio+20 Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Taking Root The Vision of Wangari Maathai
*1:30 p.m.
Oceans & Human Rights at Rio+20
Phil Kline
Greenpeace USA
*3:00 p.m.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities:
The Steps Toward Ratification of a UN Convention in Summer 2012
*4:30 p.m.
8th Annual Human Rights Film Festival
Rio+20 Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Special Feature on Local Visions of Self-Determination
August 18
Excursion of Empowerment
Around Washington D.C.
Roundezvous at National Museum of the American Indian
