For these reasons, human rights lawyers should be careful not to limit opportunities to bring cases in the future. Third, issues may be brought to the reporting delegation by members of the Human Rights Committee.
International Human Rights Law Interns
Dhumale, Varsha ('03) India (Bombay) Political rights, human rights and criminal procedure;. 03) India (Poona) Society of Friends of Sassoon Hospital Dillinger, Sarah ('01) - Nepal (Kathmandu) International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development (INHURED). Hendrix, Katherine ('00) – Czech Republic (Prague) Helsinki Group Refugee Counseling Center;. 02) Switzerland (Geneva) United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; 02) Office of the Prime Minister in Kosovo (Pristina) — Good Governance and Human Rights. Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL). further teaching and studying international human rights at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis.
Czech Government Council for Human Rights; 03) Ghana Legal Resource Center Queen (Accra), Edward II ('00) - Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group in Israel (East Jerusalem); Indianapolis Dean Gary Roberts welcomes the 2008 Summer International Human Rights Internship Fellowship Program interns and the May 2008 Master of Laws Program graduates.
Dean Roberts Meets 2008 Interns
Faculty assistant Michelle Davis also signed as a witness during the event at the Human Rights Center. Edwards noted that most of the people involved in the program are former IU Law students or interns at the Overseas Summer International Human Rights Law Internship Program, which he founded in 1997. The signatories of the declaration also pledged to “encourage child-centered, child-friendly and child-oriented human rights education."
The signatories added: “We aim to empower children to become promoters and defenders of children's human rights in their everyday lives.” George Edwards discusses the Pro Bono International Human Rights Law Education Program during the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding last November 20.
Human Rights Works and PIHRL
This latest addition to the Law School's pro bono program, called the Pro Bono International Human Rights Law Education Program, aims to “develop law students into international human rights lawyers, scholars and defenders.” The program allows students to serve as legal mentors for Indianapolis children, including prisoners. Our objectives are twofold: first, to ensure the respect, protection and fulfillment of the human rights of children, in accordance with international human rights norms, standards and principles; And,. The parties agreed to research, map and discuss children's issues using a human rights-based approach.
Ultimately, the International Pro-Bono Human Rights Education Program will work toward eliminating all forms of racism and promoting social equity and justice in Indianapolis,” explained Waters, who served as program coordinator and advocate. of staff at the University of Arizona James E. In addition to the CRC, the program also aims to promote the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and other human rights treaties .
Launch Human Rights Education Program
HRW officials led by Marina Hadjio-annou Waters, Executive Director, Kevin Munoz, Director of the Human Rights Education Program, Angela Joseph, Director of the Local Action Program, and Robert Masbaum, Board Member, signed the MOA. In her launch address, Waters said, “Human Rights Works welcomes the opportunity to join forces with the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis Program in International Human Rights Law to build a bridge between local human rights experts and at-risk children in our community. .”. Masbaum also served as an intern at the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research in Belize City, Belize, and at Casa Alianza in San Jose, Costa Rica in 2002.
Children will benefit from exposure to universal principles of human rights through empowering hands-on activities and exposure to the stories of other children around the globe,” Waters added. Our programmatic and pedagogical approaches and methods must therefore be rooted in the fundamental principles of the CRC that uphold children's inviolable rights to survival, development, participation and protection," said Waters and other signatories of the declaration.
By Perfecto Caparas
They also signed and issued a three-page statement to mark the 19th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the 49th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child, which coincided with the launch in November. Munoz worked at the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia in San Jose, Costa Rica in 2006. In 2005, Caparas interned at the International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW)-USA, based at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. .
He also worked with IWRAW-Asia Pacific and UN shadow rapporteurs from various countries lobbying the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at UN headquarters in New York. Professor George Edwards (above right) delivered the keynote address at the 60th anniversary commemoration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights organized by Human Rights Works.
International Human Rights Day—IU Law Indianapolis 2008
Working with Migrants and Asylum-Seekers
Migrants World
We had the office to ourselves, along with a few others who hadn't gone to the retreat.
Immigrants’ Legal Battles
Battered, Silenced Immigrant Women
Barriers to Empowerment
Immigration Lawyers’ Challenges
Next stop: New Orleans
Guiding Clients
What really drew me to New Orleans is that the city was at a critical juncture and seemed a challenging place to live. The highlight of my internship experience in New Orleans was the opportunity to go to an immigration detention center. The trip was four hours away from New Orleans and was coordinated by Ken Mayeaux of Catholic Charities, Baton Rouge.
Balducci and I met at the office at 7:30 and drove to Kenner, Louisiana to pick up Marina and Peter. We had coffee at Baton Rouge and waited for the other members of our delegation.
Detained migrants in the “Land of Migrants”
I think this is just a continuation of the struggle that has been going on for some time. We visited an immigration detention center to provide free counseling services to those detained there. Balducci, Marina (another attorney at Catholic Charities New Orleans), Peter (another intern), and me.
We had a delegation of 11 people, and at 10.10, when everyone had arrived, we went out to Basile, Louisiana, where the detention center is located. We arrived at the detention center around 14:00 and waited in the lobby for an hour and thirty minutes before we could go in to see the detainees.
Down-to-earth immigration judge
This was where the mayor of New Orleans attended mass, so it was an opportunity for me to see him. I expected a convoy, escorts and numerous bodyguards like in Cameroon, but there were none. In my limited experience in Black American Catholic churches, I was struck by the vitality and empathy that the Black community brings to the celebration of Mass.
Hurricane’s traumatized survivors
From restlessness…
Revolution for social justice
PIHRL
Gets New Faculty Assistant
IU Law Students Charge Australia, Chad
Philip Aka teaches at IU Law
S. Marines Major Dan Mori gives a lecture at IU Law in 2007
Conscience of
Guantanamo
Together with the faculty of the Moi University School of Law in Eldoret, Kenya, Mutai formed the Legal Aid Center of Eldoret (LACE), with the help of the Indiana legal community led by Judge Patricia Riley and Fran Quigley. LACE is now actively providing legal services to members of the marginalized sectors in Kenya.
Prof. Vincent Mutai: Lawyering for the Poor
Legal Aid
Kenya
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International Human Rights Law
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Submitted sworn statement of an expert on international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. LAW AND INDIANA LAW: GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC VIEWS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES FACED IN INDIANA. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: OPTIONS IN THE PURSUIT OF ENDING IMPUNITY Presentation at the International Seminar on Human Rights Law, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida, moderated by Professor Dorothea Beane (February 16, 2004) (Gulfport, Florida) .
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND THE CONVERGENCE OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW: PEDAGOGY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICE Colloquium presented at Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida (February 17, 2004) (Gulfport, Florida). VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA: AN INTERNATIONAL LAW FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS, Conference paper presented at "The Human Consequences of Hurricane Katrina" held at Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas ( conference sponsored by The Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, Inc. and The Institute for International and Immigration Law) (Friday, November 18, 2005).
Professor George Edwards
The course was sponsored by the Indiana Judicial Center and was part of the Indiana Judicial Graduate Program. March 22, 2004, Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis (On behalf of the Faculty of Law and the Program in International Human Rights Law). AN ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF LAW SCHOOL HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS (Harvard Law School Roundtable - Human Rights Program - 20th Anniversary), October 15 - 17, 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IN THE ARAB WORLD: AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW NETWORK (ICLN) SEMINAR ON EFFECTIVE MEASURES AGAINST IMPUNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST – AMMAN, JORDAN.
Scholarly Achievements 2004-2008
Served as co-coach (with a counterpart from Syria) for the judging team in the simulated ICC Pro. AND INDIANA LAW: AN EXAMINATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF THE U.S. ENEMY WARRIORS,” HELD IN GUANTANAMO BAY, presentation at the fourth annual Norman Amaker Public Interest Law Retreat entitled Human Rights in the 21st Century.
HIGHER EDUCATION and INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW: RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS in the Globalized World of the 21st Century. INTERNATIONAL LAW, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, AND PEACE – RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS IN THE NEW CENTURY.
Prof. Edwards promotes IU Law overseas
International Human Rights Law Challenges
Indiana International Human Rights Law Bulletin Highlights 2004-2008 Achievements of Professor George Edwards, Carl M. American Society of International Law (“Asylum”), International Organizations Interest Group, International Law Institutions Subsection of Human Rights, Chairman. Who's Who In Black Professor George Edwards in Indianapolis travels to Dubai and Kuwait to promote America.
The MLA members elected Wele Elangwe as the MLA President during the meeting on 29 August 2008.
Master of Laws Association Holds Party
2008 LL.M. Graduates
