8th Annual 4-Day Human Rights Course at UDC-DCSL
8th Annual Human Rights on the Hill
The U.S. & The U.N.: From Reflection to Realization of Human Rights in America
University of the District of Columbia
David A. Clarke School of Law
4200 Connecticut Ave., NW
Building 39, Room 205
Talks & Topics Include
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The UN International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Peace is a Human Right
State of the Four Freedoms in the World
Organized by:
Hawaii Institute for Human Rights
Four Freedoms Forum
NO CHARGE: But tax exempt donations gladly accepted!
Make checks out to "DC School of Law Foundation"
With notation to "Human Rights on the Hill"
Or online via http://www.law.udc.edu/donations/ with comment "Human Rights on the Hill"
For more information, please contact:
Joshua Cooper, Course Coordinator, at joshuacooperhawaii@gmail.com
TO REGISTER: http://www.law.udc.edu/event/HumanRightsCourse
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Aloha Friends of Human Rights, Environment, Peace & Global Justice,
The Eighth 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 July 13 - 17, 2009.
In our formative years, the course focused on reflection and education, we aim to build on this balanced foundation evolving into realization and engagement.
There is an opportunity to mobilize to realize human rights in the United States of America and our partners for peace around the planet. The course will allow participants to actively be agents of positive social change in our country and the global civil society.
The summer seminar will focus on important international human rights instruments. We will cover from ratification to realization in the lives of all Americans and citizens of the world. The seminar combines keynote addresses by international law professors as well as peace & policy makers, panel presentations by NGOs and indigenous peoples, updates on the latest developments at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the newly created UN Human Rights Council including the Universal Periodic Review, documentary film premieres daily during lunch and excursions of empowerment throughout the week around Washington D.C.
The course will meet in UDC's Building 39 on the second floor in Room 205, 4200 Connecticut Ave, NW (Van Ness/UDC Metro) and will begin each morning at 9 a.m. from Monday July 13 through Friday July 17. The presentations will take place every 90 minutes starting at 9 a.m. throughout the day concluding at 4:30 p.m. daily. Each day at noon, there will be the fifth annual Human Rights Film Festival featuring documentary movies on fundamental freedoms.
We hope you can participate as much as possible in the five day program. A significant aspect of this advocacy course is participating actively with the decision-makers in our democracy. Therefore, there will be educational excursions of empowerment to complement the talks. For latest schedules please email joshua@hawaii.edu or jlibertelli@udc.edu.
We also want to welcome you to invite your membership to be part of the coalition aiming for ratification of treaties by the U.S. government and also to organize better monitoring of US involvement in the UN human rights mechanisms. We very much look forward to your participation in this empowering endeavor and hopeful future action to create a culture of peace and human rights.
