(Course Schedule at Bottom) Please Join Us for the 12th Annual Human Rights on the Hill International Human & Peoples’ Rights Law Program Coordinated by Joshua Cooper, PhD UDC David A. Clarke School of Law 4340 Connecticut Ave., NW Room 506 Washington, DC 20008 Monday July 1 - Saturday, July 6 9:00 am to 4:30 pm For more information, please contact: joshuacooperhawaii@gmail.com or call (808) 542 7204 Sponsors: Four Freedoms Forum, UDC International Human & Peoples' Rights Program, Hawaii Institute for Human Rights, Hawaii Center for Human Rights Research & Action, Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, US Human Rights Network Schedule Monday, July 1 (At UDC Law)
9 a.m. "The Global Human Rights
Machinery: Our Grassroots Human Rights Movement," Joshua Cooper, Four Freedoms
Forum
10:30 a.m. "The Human Rights of
Indigenous Peoples & the Alta Declaration: From Contact to the UN World
Conference on Indigenous Peoples," Joshua Cooper, Hawaii Institute for Human
Rights
12:00 p.m How to Start a
Revolution Film
1:30 p.m. "InterAmerican Human
Rights System: Indigenous Rights in the Region," Leonardo Crippa Indian Law
Resource Center
3:00 p.m. The Human Right
to Water & Sanitation in the U.S. and Around the World," Darcey O'
Callaghan, International Policy Director, Food & Water Watch
4:00 p.m TBA
6:30 p.m. "Told you So: The Big
Book of Weekly Columns," Ralph Nader Busboys and Poets 14&V
Tuesday, July 2 (At UDC Law)
9 a.m. "Peace is a Human Right,"
Colman McCarthy, Peace Center
10:30 a.m. "Defend the
Amazon - A rights-based approach to saving the rainforest and slowing climate
change" Andrew Miller,
Amazon Watch
12:00 p.m "Human Rights on the
Hill," Rick Wilson Rayburn House Office Building 2321
2:00 p.m. "Disability Rights as
Human Rights in the 21st Century," Esme Grant US International Council on
Disabilities
3:30 p.m. "Peace Action for Human
Rights Realization," Kevin Martin, Peace Action
Wednesday, July 3 (At UDC Law)
9 a.m. "A Peoples Perspective on
the UPR Mid-Term Review for the United States of America," Joshua Cooper, Four
Freedoms Forum
10:30 a.m. "Local Lawyering, "
Lauren Bartlett, Local Human Rights Lawyering Project Director Center for Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law American University Washington College of Law
12:00 p.m Testify! Voices for Human
Rights in the United States WITNESS & USHRNetwork Film
1:30 p.m. "The Universal Periodic
Review: A State Department Perspective," Kelly Landry
3:00 p.m. "Initial Conversation
Across the Country for a Citizen-Centered Successful Second Cycle," Joshua
Cooper Four Freedoms Forum
4:00 p.m. "Human Rights in
Asia," Alim Seytoff, Uyghur Human Rights Project, World Uyghur Congress
Thursday, July 4 (Downtown Washington)
Educational Excursions of
Empowerment Human Rights on the Hill
10:0 a.m. National Museum of the
American Indian
12:00 p.m U.S. National Archives
Declaration of Independence
1:00 p.m. National Museum of
American History
2:00 p.m. United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Friday, July 5 (at UDC Law)
9 a.m. "Business & Human
Rights Mechanisms at the United Nations," Joshua Cooper, Four Freedoms
Forum
10:30 a.m. "Nature Conservation,"
Gina Cosentino, Director, Indigenous & Communal Conservation
11:30 a.m. Khmer Krom Practicing of
Theravada Buddhism in Fear Behind the Bamboo Curtain Film
12:00 p.m Enemies of the People A
Personal Journey into the Heart of the Killing Fields Film
1:30 p.m. Film Making for
Fundamental Freedoms: Case Study in Cambodia, Sambath Thet
3:00 p.m. Human Rights in China
Rally
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