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The Human Rights Center has hosted or co-sponsored major international conferences on emerging issues in human rights research and humanitarian law.
FEATURED PAST EVENTS
FALL 2010
Monday, December 6, 6:00pm As countries across the continent of Africa celebrate 50 years of independence, millions of Africans still face daily violence and human rights abuses. Although the American media occasionally provides a picture of violence in Africa, what does life on the ground really look like? Peter Orner and Annie Holmes, co-editors of Hope Deferred, and Patrick Vinck, Director of the Initiative for Vulnerable Populations at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, will describe two countries, Zimbabwe and the Central African Republic, that are both dealing with crippling poverty and ongoing human rights abuses. They will also offer their thoughts on how these countries, with their different histories, can move forward. A full description and readings for the event are available here. Sept. 7, Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Dec. 7, 2010, 4:30-6:00pm What does human rights work look like in practice? September 7 – “Ways of Thinking About Human Rights Research”
October 5 – “Unsaid or Unheard: The Limits of Observation and Human Rights Statistics"
November 2 – “Covering Human Rights Issues in the Congo – 100 Years ago and Today"
December 7 – “International Human Rights Litigation in the United States”
Articles listed under recommended readings may be accessed via the UC Berkeley Library's E-Journal Titles. Books are on reserve under the workshop title at the main Law Library at Boalt. Workshop Contact: Kristin Reed, Human Rights Fellows Program Director, kreed@berkeley.edu. Sponsored by the Human Rights Center, Boalt Hall Committee on Human Rights, and The Thelton E. Henderson Center on Social Justice. November 4, 3pm-6pm The foundational values of our legal system are at stake in United States national security programs. This symposium seeks to promote a clear understanding of the responsibilities of lawyers, the organized bar, and law students in the context of interrogation and torture. Participants include Mark Danner, a journalist whose investigations into government programs have led to several books, Jameel Jaffer, Director of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union Center for Democracy, and other prominent scholars. View announcement here. November 4, 10am-6pm Every fall, the UC Human Rights Fellows Conference brings together inspiring human rights researchers and advocates to present their fellowship projects. Graduate students work with leading organizations in the field on cutting edge human rights projects. View full schedule here. The Human Rights Fellowship Program is sponsored, in part, by generous contributions from Thomas J. White, the Tang Opportunity Fund, the UC Berkeley School of Law, UC Office of the President, and individual donors. October 27th, 6pm Over the summer Becky Palmstrom worked with Film Aid International in Kakuma Refugee camp in Kenya. Together with 30 young refugees from Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo, Uganda and Kenya they produced four short documentaries about life in the camp. Becky will be screening the documentaries and talking about participatory video and its implications for humanitarianism and citizen journalism. View event flyer here. Presented by The Graduate School of Journalism, the Human Rights Center, the Center for African Studies. October 26th, 6-8pm Lawyers-turned-filmmakers Roberto Hernandez and Layda Negrete set out to exonerate a man sentenced in Mexico to 20 years in prison for homicide with no physical evidence. In the process of making the film, they put the Mexican criminal justice system on trial. Join us to view the film the Wall Street Journal called "a nightmarish journey into Mexico's legal system lifted from the pages of Franz Kafka." Advance registration is recommended for guaranteed seating. For more information about this event, visit the World Affairs Council website. This event is cosponsored by the ACLU of Northern California and the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center. October 21st, 6-8pm On June 1st of this year, the Somali community celebrated a monumental victory with the 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Samantar v. Yousuf - Come join us in discussing these cases as well as CJA’s other work to obtain justice on behalf of survivors and victims of human rights abuses around the world. Refreshments will be available. For more information, see the event flyer here. To RSVP, contact Maria DeGaetano: mdegaetano@cja.org or 415-544-0444. Sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition. October 17th, 2pm
Speaking across time and generations, Stuart Schulberg's extraordinary film of the first Nuremberg trial is, simply, essential viewing. Recently restored by the filmmaker's daughter, Sandra Schulberg, and Josh Waletzky, it is the official account of one of the most important, groundbreaking trials of all time and the first incorporating extensive use of film as evidence. Yet, for political reasons, it was not released in US theaters in its own time. Following the structure of the trial itself, it is a compelling courtroom drama that reveals the brilliance of the Allied prosecutors' approach. Their four-count case systematically builds by utilizing the irrefutable words, deeds and images — both still and moving — of the Nazi party itself, in a blistering indictment of the men on trial for crimes against humanity. It is a time capsule containing essential wisdom and, indeed, holds a lesson for today and for all time. For more information, visit the Mill Valley Film Festival's website. October 12th, 4:00-6:30pm The Khmer Rouge ran what is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s most brutal regimes. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained—until now. In Enemies of the People, winner of the 2010 Sundance World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary, the men and women who perpetrated the massacres – from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party’s ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two – break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen. Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia’s top investigative journalists, Thet Sambath. Sambath is on a personal quest: he lost his own family in the Killing Fields. The film is his journey to discover why they died. In doing so, he hears and understands for the first time the real story of his country’s tragedy.
Following the screening of Enemies of the People, director Rob Lemkin will discuss his work in a Q&A session. Read more about the film in the New York Times. The film is free and open to the public. Event contact: Melissa Carnay, Program Officer: mcarnay@berkeley.edu. Co-sponsored by the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Asian American Studies Program/Department of Ethnic Studies, War Crimes Studies Center, Asian Law Caucus, International Human Rights Law Clinic, and the Bay Area Video Coalition. September 30th, 7pm
Presented by the San Francisco Film Society. More information is available on the SFFS website. September 9, 6:30pm At 13, Dau became one of the 27,000 orphaned lost boys of Sudan. He fled one of the worst civil wars in near history, walked for 3 months and survived starvation and disease to come to the United States. Today, the former Lost Boy leads the global community in a fight to transform Sudan’s health care. After his ordeal, he raised the $1,000,000 needed to build a medical clinic in his home village. His work inspired business and nonprofit leaders worldwide to help him create the John Dau Foundation for sustainable health care for all men, women and children in south Sudan. Dau has been named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2008 and was the subject of the award-winning documentary God Grew Tired of Us. Join INFORUM as they honor Dau with INFORUM's 21st Century Visionary Award for opening the world’s eyes to the Sudanese health-care crisis we may not have seen. Ticket Info: http://bit.ly/JohnDauFB or call 415-597-6718 September 8, 12-2pm Earlier this year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) conducted its first review conference to consider amendments to the Rome Statute (the treaty establishing the ICC) and reflect on international criminal justice for the world's worst crimes. Held in Kampala, Uganda, a number of States Parties, non-state nations, civil society organizations, and NGO's participated in the stocktaking and evaluation discussions, with victim and witness participation and outreach being a major theme. The U.S. delegation to the conference turned a corner in the U.S. relationship to the Court from outright hostility to a strategy of "principled engagement." At this lunchtime presentation, Rita Maran, human rights and international law activist and lecturer at the University of California, will share her experiences lobbying the United States Congress on its participation with the ICC and discuss the U.S. government's involvement with the Faculty Director Eric Stover of the Human Rights Center will discuss his experiences from the conference as moderator of the stocktaking exercise on victim and witness participation, as well as present his work in exploring outreach strategies for international courts and war crimes tribunals. Download the flyer here. Refreshments will be provided. RSVPs encouraged to Melissa Carnay at mcarnay@berkeley.edu. Co-sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, United Nations Association-USA East Bay Chapter, and San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition. SPRING 2010
April 27, 12:30 to 2pm Rob Quinn, the founding Executive Director of the Scholars At Risk Network, will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the power of ideas as it plays out on contemporary intellectual battlegrounds from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Based on lessons learned from thousands of academics, researchers, writers, artists and activists who suffered because of their research, writing and speaking out, Mr. Quinn will discuss the dynamics behind the power of ideas. Why are ideas so ‘dangerous’? What means are used to eliminate them? And, how can we change the dynamics to more effectively protects ideas and knowledge-producers? Visit co-sponsored by UC Davis School of Law and the UC Office of the President. RSVP requested to hrc [at] berkeley.edu. April 26, 7 to 9PM The Pacific Northwest team of Invisible Children will screen their documentary GO in the Chevron Auditorium at International House. Following the film, representatives of Invisible Children will speak, along with Jacob, a Ugandan and former child soldier, and take questions from the audience. Co-sponsored by: International House, Human Rights Center, Center for African Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies Department, and International Area Studies. ASUC Sponsored. ADA Accessible. April 21, 4:30 to 6:30pm Highlighted as one of Time's Top 100 People Who Shape Our World, by Senator John Kerry, Youk Chhang is the Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), where he leads Cambodian efforts to collect and organize data on the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge period. Visit sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies. April 8, 3:30 to 6:30pm With the addition of the Human Rights Center to the Law School's roster of research centers, Berkeley Law is home to one of the most comprehensive, globally active, and student-oriented human rights programs of any top law school. Join faculty, staff, and students for an afternoon symposium highlighting innovative research and opportunities for student involvement. A keynote address by Michael Posner (Boalt '75) will be followed by panel discussions on "Armed Conflict and Accountability" and "Justice and Transition." Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Human Rights Center, International Human Rights Law Clinic, and the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. April 6, 12:40pm Elan Emanuel ’09 describes his work last fall in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the government Decentralization Secretariat and helped rebuild government capacity in the wake of the country's 10-year civil war. March 2, 5pm Senior South Asia experts Ali Dayan Hasan and Meenakshi Ganguly will give a briefing on the situation in Pakistan and India. Ali Dayan Hasan (Lahore) and Meenakshi Ganguly (Mumbai) work together to expose and prevent human rights abuses in Southern Asia. Their indisputable research has placed strategic pressure on governments in the region. They will share their personal experiences investigating and reporting on both sides of the conflict in Kashmir, and examine the challenges to security in India and Pakistan that have come to dominate today's headlines. Hosted by the Center for South Asia Studies. March 10, 12:30 to 1:30pm
Genocide Intervention Network was founded in 2005 to mobilize the first permanent anti-genocide constituency committed to stopping the worst atrocities around the world. Join founder and President Mark Hanis as he discusses GI Net's current efforts to counter genocide and protect civilians. Co-sponsored by the SF Bay Area Darfur Coalition, the American Friends Service Committee, UNA-USA East Bay, and the Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights. RSVP requested: hrc [at] berkeley.edu. March 31, 4pm to 6pm Speaker: Scott Gilmore, Executive Director and founder of Ottawa-based Please join Scott Gilmore, winner of the 2010 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, as he discusses the work of his NGO, Peace Dividend Trust (www.peacedividendtrust.org); Rory Stewart and Turquoise Mountain Foundation, and the Altai Group in war zones. Matt Flannery, co-founder and CEO of Kiva (and a 2008 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship), will moderate the discussion. Admission is free to this public event, made possible by the Consulate General of Canada San Francisco/Silicon Valley in partnership with the Human Rights Center and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law; the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley; Global Initiatives@Haas; and the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program at UC Berkeley. February 18, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Carolina Fuentes, Social Documentation Program, Santa Cruz
Watch a preview of Karl's documentary.
Lebenverse: Living Video Memory Trailer from Karl Baumann on Vimeo. February 1, 12pm (Brown Bag Lunch)
January 26, 12:30-1:30 January 15-April 18 In the aftermath of the “Vietnam War”, renewed conflict, revolution and mass atrocities provoked a refugee exodus on mainland Southeast Asia of an historically unprecedented scale. At the peak of the crisis, over 1 million refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia sought refuge in camps in Thailand and along the border. Among them were close to half a million Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge auto-genocidal regime, many of them children. The journey across heavily mined, malaria plagued, and violence-ridden jungle, was perilous. Some made it across the border. Many did not.
FALL 2009
December 8, 6-7 PM Luis Moreno-Ocampo was unanimously elected as the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in 2003. His mandate is to select and trigger investigations and prosecutions of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. He has opened investigations into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Darfur and the Central African Republic, and analyzed alleged crimes under the jurisdiction of the Court in Georgia, Colombia, Kenya, Afghanistan, Côte d’Ivoire, Palestine and Guinea. Prior to joining the International Criminal Court, Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo had a distinguished career as a prosecutor in Argentina, where he played a key role in the trials connected with the transition from dictatorship to democracy. Dr. Moreno-Ocampo was the Deputy Prosecutor in the “military juntas trial,” the first case against top commanders responsible for mass atrocities since the Nüremberg trials, and served as prosecutor of the Federal Criminal Court of Buenos Aires from 1987 to 1992. During those years, he participated in prosecutions against guerrilla leaders and military rebellions. He also conducted a great number of prosecutions against public officials for corruption. Upon his resignation in 1992, Dr. Moreno-Ocampo founded a private law firm specialized in corruption control. He was a board member of national and international NGO’s and was visiting professor at both Stanford and Harvard Universities. Visit the World Affairs Council website for more details. This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley. November 15, 3-5 PM
Moderated by Laurel Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, UC Berkeley. November 13, 12 PM The event, hosted by the Canadian Studies Program, will locate "Responsibility to Protect" and humanitarian intervention in the broader context of post-Cold War humanitarian crises and attempts at UN reform. Featured Speakers and Presenters:
To learn more about the symposium and view the agenda, visit the event website. November 5, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Reception to Follow View the conference schedule, program, and video clips. October 28, 5:30-7:30 PM In 2001, paramilitary commander Hernan Giraldo forcefully disappeared and The International Human Rights Law Clinic and Wilson, Sonsini,Goodrich & Featured Speakers:
View the event flyer. Sponsored by: International Human Rights Law Clinic, Human Rights Center, Miller Institute of Global Challenges and Law, La Raza Law Students Association, Boalt Hall Committee on Human Rights, International Law Society and Berkeley Journal of International Law. October 27, 3-5 PM, Reception to follow Human rights advocates and political communicators have long used a “shame and blame” strategy to shape public opinion, affect policy or legal issues and steer public life. The tremendous impact of imagery in this media-saturated world is not in dispute, but how modern photography, film, Internet, YouTube and 24-hour news channels have changed human rights documentation and advocacy is ripe for discussion. In this participatory dialogue three presenters will trace the impact of imagery and media on public events and pose questions for small group discussions among those in attendance. A reception will follow the dialogue. Featured Speakers and Presenters:
This event is co-sponsored by the Townsend Center, Berkeley Center for New Media, Goldman School of Public Policy, and the RockRose Institute. It is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged. To RSVP, please visit the event's registration page. October 20, 7-9 PM Not Yet Rain, a short film by Lisa Russell, produced in association with the international NGO Ipas, explores abortion in Ethiopia through the voices of women who have faced the challenge of trying to find safe reproductive health care. Through their stories, we see the important role that safe abortion care plays in the overall health of women and their families. Anu Kumar ’85, executive vice president of Ipas, will lead a discussion following the film about the global need for safe abortion care to achieve women’s rights. Ipas is a nonprofit organization that works around the world to increase women’s ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries. Event Contact: 510-642-8338 Sponsored by Center for African Studies, International House, and the School of Public Health October 12, 4 PM UCSF School of Medicine and Global Strategies for AIDS Prevention are hosting a presentation, roundtable and individual conversations with Stephen Lewis, the UN’s first Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Professor Lewis will speak at 4:00 pm, followed by a roundtable and Q&A at 4:50, to conclude at 5:30. Roundtable discussants:
Download the flyer for more details regarding the roundtable. September 14, 4 PM Opposition leader, pro-democracy campaigner, social worker, and women's rights advocate Mu Sochua (MSW alumna '81) will discuss her years battling sex trafficking, domestic violence against women, government corruption and land grabs in Cambodia, as well as the court case that has now attracted the attention of the UN High Commission on Human Rights. As one of the most outspoken members of the Cambodian parliament, Mu Sochua has taken on the Prime Minister in a test of her country’s legal system. In a series of events that began last year, Mu Sochua recently had her parliamentary immunity stripped and will now face a defamation suit brought against her by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Hers is one of at least six cases in which the Cambodian government is currently using the courts to silence opposition leaders, journalists and human rights groups, reports the Asian Human Rights Commission. To learn more about Mu Sochua and the case brought against her, check out these articles by The Washington Post and the School of Social Welfare. This event is sponsored by the School of Social Welfare, and co-sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center, the Boalt Hall School of Law International Human Rights Law Clinic and the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. It is open to the public and refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the School of Social Welfare: http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/ (510) 643-5433 mhermon@berkeley.edu. September 12, 8:30am-5:30pm
A suggested donation of $15 is encouraged. To learn more and register for the conference, visit the conference's Eventbrite page. August 18, 12:30 PM SPRING 2009
June 12, 3 PM to 5 PM A professor and physician based in Tromsø, Norway, Dr. Mads Gilbert has participated in numerous international emergency medical missions and training projects in war and post-conflict zones in Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza, Iran, Burma, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Angola. During the most recent conflict in Gaza, Dr. Gilbert was one of a few foreign physicians on the ground, in a period when foreign journalists were barred from entry. Dr. Gilbert has published several articles in The Lancet about his experience and has been interviewed extensively by the international media, including CNN, BBC and Al-Jazeera. Please contact cgph@berkeley.edu with questions. Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Public Health, Human Rights Center, Institute of International Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. May 4 and 5 April 23, 1 PM, Keynote address, 5 PM The 2009 Riesenfeld Symposium will examine the current status of human rights law, with a focus on how the framework of this legal system has been affected by the Bush Administration's approach to international human rights law. The Symposium will bring together students, scholars, and legal practitioners in a discussion that aims to refine and expand our understanding of how human rights norms operate in both the domestic and international contexts. Symposium speakers include Martha Davis, John Bellinger, Constance de la Vega, Steven Watt, Dinah Shelton, and Elise Keppler, and will each speak on a panel discussing either the development of using human rights norms in the US domestic sphere, or the impact and legacy of the past administration's often controversial stances on international human rights law. Philip Alston, world-renowned scholar in international human rights law, is keynote speaker and recipient of this year's Riesenfeld award for outstanding contribution to the field of international law. For more information on the symposium, please visit to our website. Co-sponsored by the Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights, Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the Human Rights Center. April 23, 12 PM A distinctively Canadian take on international relations? An assessment of the origins, strengths and weaknesses of Responsibility to Protect Co-sponsored with the Canadian Studies Program and the Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program April 22, 7 PM April 20, 6 PM April 8-9 Two panel discussions will take place in the Geballe Room of the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Stephens Hall. They are free and open to the public. April 9, 7 PM CalTV Journalism provides an excerpt of President Sirleaf's lecture. General admission: $20 April 9, 3 PM to 5 PM The International Criminal Court has been heralded as a "victim's court" but how will the Court make good on this promise? This panel will explore the challenges faced in bringing the voices of victims into criminal proceedings and what international courts and tribunals have done to meet some of these challenges. Audio (mp3)
April 8, 4 PM to 6 PM Journalists from Africa will discuss the critical need to bring Africa's evolving story of atrocities and justice to the world at large. They will provide first-hand accounts of the impact on families of the terror campaign waged by the Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northern Uganda, and the devastating consequences of the sexual violence against women by all sides in the conflicts in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Trained by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, they investigate the work of the International Criminal Court in the field. Audio (mp3) Sponsored by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Free and open to the public. April 2, 4 PM Dr. Stewart Patrick is senior fellow and director of the program on international institutions and global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His areas of expertise include multilateral cooperation in the management of global issues; U.S. policy toward international institutions, including the United Nations; the challenges posed by fragile, failing, and post-conflict states; and the integration of U.S. defense, development, and diplomatic instruments in U.S. foreign and national security policy. Co-Sponsors March 18, 4 PM Co-Sponsors March 16th,
11 AM Sonia Fournier is a Professor of Education at the University of Quebec at Rimouski, Canada and Visiting Scholar at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley. She has authored two books on Multiple Intelligences and several articles including “Le génocide des Tutsi de 1994: éducation et témoignage par l’image” and “Évocation du génocide des Tutsi: architecture de la mémoire et image.” The specific context of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 led us to reflect on how children whose parents are perpetrators or survivors of the genocide act within their scholastic environment. Perpetrators and victims have lived together for fifteen years, and some children were not born during the genocide. This development obliges the Rwandans to invent a culture of peace in schools in line with the reconciliation politics. What’s more, Rwandan teachers question themselves when faced with the transmission of an exemplary memory that fully respects the child’s development and the avoidance of possible traumas. This research aims, therefore, to elaborate upon, construct, and describe pedagogical tools with image across the history of the genocide. March 13, 12:45 PM Co-sponsored with The Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights and International Human Rights Law Clinic March 12, 5:30 PM Co-sponsored with the Graduate School of Journalism January 22, 4 PM FALL 2008
A select list: December 10, Noon to 2 PM December 1, 7 PM November 20, 12 Noon November 18, 5 PM November 6, 10 AM to 5 PM October 30, 4 PM October 20, 12:30 PM October 6, 4 PM Alex Gibney, Director of the Academy Award–winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, will discuss his film, military detentions, and the U.S. war on terror, with Lowell Bergman, UCB School of Journalism. Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. October 5, 4 PM September 23, 12:45 PM September 22, 12:45 PM September 12, 4 PM SPRING 2008
The “War on Terror” and Human Rights In Spring 2008, the Human Rights Center, along with the School of Law's International Human Rights Law Clinic and Berkeley Project on Law and Terrorism, presented a colloquium on "The 'War on Terror' and Human Rights," a thought-provoking discussion about the methods used to pursue the “war on terror” and its impact on America’s reputation at home and abroad. April 3, 5 PM *Download the event podcast here. February 28, 5 PM With soldiers reportedly employing brutal interrogation techniques specifically imitating what they have seen on episodes of “24” and similar shows, this panel considers how popular culture since 9/11 has affected wartime military practice. Read an article on the topic in The Berkeleyan, "Prime-time torture gets a reality check." February 7, 7 PM General Taguba was interviewed while on campus as part of the series "Conversations with History," now available online. Read the interview with General Taguba published in The Berkeleyan, "General says Abu Ghraib scandal will resonate 'for years to come'." Additional Spring 2008 Events (Select List) May 5, 1 PM April 10, 12:45 PM March 18, 12:45 PM March 12, Noon FALL 2007
Regents Lecturer Peter Maass “The Amazon v. Big Oil: In Ecuador, Chevron Faces Judgment Day” "From Saddam to Moqtada: A Writer's Odyssey Through Wartime Iraq" SPRING 2007
In March 2007, the Human Rights Center presented “Stopping Mass Atrocities: An International Conference on the Responsibility to Protect.” The conference was launched with a keynote address by Lt. General Roméo Dallaire, force commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. It continued with a series of speeches and panel discussions, including remarks by the Hon. Gareth Evans, President of International Crisis Group, and Juan Méndez, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice. Visit the conference website for details and links to the webcasts. The conference was co-sponsored by Human Rights Watch and Genocide Intervention Network and was made possible by a grant from Humanity United. As follow-up to the conference, the Human Rights Center led a research project resulting in the report "The Responsibility to Protect (R2P): Moving the Campaign Forward," published in October 2007. 2001
A 2001 conference on “DNA and Human Rights” brought together researchers, practitioners and activists from the fields of genetics, biotechnology, forensic sciences, criminal law, human rights and ethics to discuss the potential of DNA to address the extraordinary needs of victims of human rights violations. Visit the conference website to read more about the presentations and reports resulting from the event. 1997
Reporting from the Killing Fields: A Conference on Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and War (April 1997) addressed historical and legal perspectives of mass atrocities in the American West, Armenia, Southeast Asia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. The conference opened with an address by Justice Richard Goldstone, and included participation by legal experts and leading journalists. The conference was co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism, the Institute of International Studies, and the School of Law.
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Years later, the 1994 Rwandan genocide still leaves deep scars. Director Deborah Scranton’s powerful film looks at the wounds that remain through the stories of two men trying to expose the truth of what happened 15 years earlier. Following the screening, a panel discussion will address the functions, roles and processes of documentary film as a form of investigative journalism.
Karl Baumann, Digital Arts and New Media, Santa Cruz
Wanda Hall, Director of 
