Important Events on the Horizon

Two upcoming events worth watching:

 

First, The Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute is happy to announce that registration is now open for the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network annual Human Rights in the U.S. CLE/symposium.  The full-day event, scheduled for June 24, 2016, is entitled "Engaging with UN Special Procedures to Advance U.S. Social Justice."  The event is free for public interest practioners and academics.  

 

Second, the American Friends Service Committee, the Pittsburgh Human Rights Cities group and others are organizing a two-day human rights city workshop on May 26 and 27, 2016, in Washington, D.C. -- itself a human rights city. The purpose of the gathering is to bring together human rights activists and social movement representatives engaged in the design and implementation of human rights cities and related initiatives in the United States.  Attendees will discuss lessons learned, trends, opportunities and challenges to bringing human rights home here in the U.S.  The gathering will also consider the question of whether and how this advocacy might be advanced by more deliberate national coordination.  If you live in a human rights city and/or are working towards human rights framing in your local landscape, please contact Jean-Louis Ikambana of the DC Human Rights Steering Committee/American Friends Service Committee for more information at:  [email protected].