12th Annual Human Rights on the Hill course next week at UDC in our nation's capital

Join us next week at the University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law for the annual week long Human Rights on the Hill course organized by Peace Action board member and University of Hawai’i professor Joshua Cooper. All sessions are free and open to the public, and yuo can come and go as you like or just attend a session or two. The site (except for a special event with Ralph Nader Monday night at Busboys and Poets and several excursions to museums on July 4 which are noted below) is the UDC Law School at 4200 Connecticut Ave., Building 52, Washington, DC 20008, please see http://www.law.udc.edu/ for info on the campus. The Van Ness/UDC red line Metro stop is right there, perhaps your best bet for transit, and there is parking on campus and on surrounding streets but you’ll need to pay.

Here is the schedule for the week, I (Kevin Martin) will speak on Tuesday at 3:30 pm, and there will be many interesting speakers and sessions.

Monday

July 1

 

9 a.m. “The Global Human Rights Machinery: Our Grassroots Human Rights Movement,” Joshua Cooper, Four Freedoms Forum

10:30 a.m. “The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples & the Alta Declaration: From Contact to the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples,” Joshua Cooper, Hawaii Institute for Human Rights

12:00 p.m  How to Start a Revolution Film

1:30 p.m.  “InterAmerican Human Rights System: Indigenous Rights in the Region,” Leonardo Crippa Indian Law Resource Center

3:00 p.m. The Human Right to Water & Sanitation in the U.S. and Around the World,” Darcey O’ Callaghan, International Policy Director, Food & Water Watch

4:00 p.m

6:30 p.m. “Told you So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns,” Ralph Nader Busboys and Poets 14&V

 

 

 

Tuesday

July 2

 

9 a.m. “Peace is a Human Right,”  Colman McCarthy, Peace Center

10:30 a.m.   “Defend the Amazon – A rights-based approach to saving the rainforest and slowing climate change” Andrew Miller,  Amazon Watch

12:00 p.m  “Human Rights on the Hill,”  Rick Wilson Rayburn House Office Building 2321

2:00 p.m. “Disability Rights as Human Rights in the 21st Century,” Esme Grant US International Council on Disabilities

3:30 p.m.  “Peace Action for Human Rights Realization,” Kevin Martin, Peace Action

 

 

Wednesday

July 3

 

9 a.m.  “A Peoples Perspective on the UPR Mid-Term Review for the United States of America,”  Joshua Cooper, Four Freedoms Forum

10:30 a.m. “Local Lawyering, ” 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 Testify! Voices for Human Rights in the United States WITNESS & USHRNetwork Film

1:30 p.m.  “The Universal Periodic Review: A State Department Perspective,”  Kelly Landry

3:00 p.m. “Initial Conversation Across the Country for a Citizen-Centered Successful Second Cycle,” Joshua Cooper Four Freedoms Forum

4:00 p.m.   “Human Rights in Asia,”  Alim Seytoff, Uyghur Human Rights Project, World Uyghur Congress

 

 

Thursday

July 4

 

Educational Excursions of Empowerment Human Rights on the Hill

 

10:0 a.m. National Museum of the American Indian

12:00 p.m U.S. National Archives  Declaration of Independence

1:00 p.m. National Museum of American History

2:00 p.m. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

 

Friday

July 5

 

9 a.m.  “Business & Human Rights Mechanisms at the United Nations,”  Joshua Cooper, Four Freedoms Forum

10:30 a.m.  “Nature Conservation,”   Gina Cosentino, Director, Indigenous & Communal Conservation

11:30 a.m. Khmer Krom Practicing of Theravada Buddhism in Fear Behind the Bamboo Curtain Film

12:00 p.m Enemies of the People  A Personal Journey into the Heart of the Killing Fields Film

1:30 p.m.  Film Making for Fundamental Freedoms: Case Study in Cambodia, Sambath Thet

3:00 p.m.  Human Rights in China Rally