Introducing
Law & Ethics of Human Rights
http://www.bepress.com/lehr
The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the launch of Law & Ethics of Human Rights, a major new journal of human rights, law, and policy. For more about the journal, see description below.
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Just Foreign Policy is looking for a summer intern to help with its work around Ethiopia and human rights. The intern’s work will vary based upon her or his interests, but will include a good bit of writing, researching, and possible legislative work. Related tasks will include advocacy work and general campaign coordination. The intern should be organized and detail oriented, have excellent writing skills, and able to work well on her or his own. Experience with graphic or web design is a plus, but is not required.
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Human Rights Watch seeks a Senior Multimedia Producer to develop, create and produce multimedia content. S/he will direct a staff of two, as well as a stable of consulting editors, in creating visually compelling and journalistically excellent features that complement and enhance Human Rights Watch’s research and advocacy.
Consultant Position Available:
OUTREACH COORDINATOR
Development & Outreach Department
(New York Office)
Apply Immediately
Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking a highly-qualified consultant for the position of Outreach Coordinator for its International Film Festival.
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The One World Trust and the All Party Parliamentary Group on World Governance invite you to Parliamentary discussion on
Poverty and Human Rights as a Global Governance Challenge
Monday, 9 June 2008
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Grand Committee Room
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Speakers: Pierre Sané
Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO
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The Campaign to Ban Torture seeks a self-motivated, innovative intern to advance our organizational goals through social networking on Facebook. The intern would be responsible for creating, designing and operating the Campaign to Ban Torture’s Facebook page. The goal of this position will to increase the organization’s online presence by reaching a larger audience especially through our spreadable media.
Contributors include Ramsey Clark, Samir Amin, William Blum, Jan Myrdal, Michael Parenti, Jean Bricmont, Les Roberts, Genevieve Sevrin (Amnesty International, France), Antoine Bernard (International Federation of Human Rights), Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima
"Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it; those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it."
KOFI ANNAN
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE AND
IMPUNITY
The Case of the United States
EDITORS:
NILS ANDERSSON, DANIEL IAGOLNITZER, DIANA G. COLLIER
The Role of the Law School in Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
April 21 -22, 2008
American University Washington College of Law
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20016
This important conference will bring together law professors and practitioners from around the globe to share experiences and exchange models and information about the ways in which law schools impact the human rights field. The conference will open with a dinner and keynote presentation by Professor Michael Tigar, celebrating his work and his move to Emeritus status at the Washington College of Law. The full day event on April 22nd will provide a forum for discussion about the challenges and successes of law schools engaged inhuman rights work, and will highlight the diverse ways in which law schools integrate human rights work into their formal and informal initiatives. The dinner and conference are free of charge. Please register at www.wcl.american.edu/secle.
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This two-week program is a comprehensive graduate level course, taught by nine renowned scholars in a seminar setting. Incorporating genocide theory, history, sociology, political science and international law, it explores through a comparative analysis of major case studies and special themes, such issues as:
The Foundations of Human Rights
Methodology of Comparative Genocide Research
The Causes, Operation & Consequences of Genocide
Genocide and International Law
Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
Genocide Denial
Genocide Prevention
This summer, join a diverse group of highly motivated international students in this unique program, held July 28-August 8, 2008, in Toronto, Canada.
Email: admin@genocidestudies.org
www.genocidestudies.org
The GHRUP is accredited for three graduate credits by the University of Toronto
The Poznan Human Rights Centre and Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Law and Administration, in partnership with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Lund, Sweden) and with financial support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights are organizing the 17-th edition of the Course on International Protection of Human Rights - Rights of National Minorities.
