The Ninth 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 May 24 -
28, 2010.
To register, please go to http://www.law.udc.edu/event/Human_Rights_Course
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 May 24 through Friday May 28. 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 sixth 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 joshuacooperhawaii@gmail.com or jfl@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.
As we are finalizing the schedule, it would be greatly appreciated if
you could let us know today if you are able to speak. Thank you.
Maluhia Me Ka Pono,
Joshua Cooper, Coordinator
International Human and Peoples' Rights Law Program
Register at http://www.law.udc.edu/event/Human_Rights_Course
(Please feel free to forward this email)
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