Conference at the University of Cincinnati
on November 5 in Room 114
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5.0 CLE Hours
Dinner and Butler Medal Presentation at the
National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center on November 5
The Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights will celebrate its 25th Anniversary on November 4 & 5. A Reunion will be held for former and current faculty, Fellows and students, human rights activists, and friends and supporters of the Institute. In conjunction with the Reunion, the Urban Morgan Institute will award Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy the William J. Butler Human Rights Medal. On Friday evening November 4 a welcoming reception will be held for all attendees. On Saturday, November 5, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, the conference, Lawyers in Pursuit of Justice, will be held featuring Dr. Coomaraswamy; on Saturday evening attendees will gather for a formal dinner and presentation of the William J. Butler Medal at the National Underground Railroad Center.
Radhika Coomaraswamy
The William J. Butler Human Rights Medal honors
individuals who have
made outstanding contributions to the human rights field. Dr. Radhika
Coomaraswamy served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against
Women for nine years. In her reports to the United Nations Commission
on Human Rights she has focused on violence in the family, violence in the
community, violence against women during armed conflict, and the problem
of international trafficking.
Dr. Coomaraswamy is the Director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and she is the Chair of the Human Rights Commission for Sri Lanka. She is a member of the Global Faculty of the New York University School of Law and teaches a summer course at New College Oxford University. She has published widely, including two books, three co-edited books, and numerous articles on ethnic studies and the status of women. She has two forthcoming books: Born Free and Equal: Women?s International Human Rights, and Dharma and Conscience, a book on Sri Lanka?s ethnic conflict. Dr. Coomaraswamy is a graduate of the United Nations International School in New York, and received her B.A. from Yale University, her J.D. from Columbia University, and an LL.M. from Harvard University. She received an honorary degree from Amherst College. She is the sixth recipient of the William J. Butler Medal.
About the Institute
For 25 years, the Urban Morgan Institute has educated
and trained human rights lawyers and worked to promote
and protect international human rights. The program is
internationally recognized and serves as
a model for a number of human rights
programs. Recent accomplishments in which the Institute and College of Law take
great pride include Arthur Russell Morgan Fellow
Sean Arthur?s Skadden Fellowship, and a gallery of the National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center for which students of the Institute researched and wrote the displays
on ?unfreedoms today,? including racism, slavery, genocide, hunger, illiteracy,
and tyranny.
As always, the Human Rights Quarterly stands at the core of the Institute?s success. The impact of the Quarterly in educating and informing human rights policies and practices throughout the world is evidenced by the landmark decision by the House of Lords in December 2004, striking down a law authorizing the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists without charge. The decision relied in part upon the Siracusa Principles which interpret the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Siracusa Principles were promulgated by experts brought together by the Urban Morgan Institute and the International Commission of Jurists, and published in the Human Rights Quarterly in 1985. The 35th book in Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights for which Professor Bert Lockwood serves as Editor, has just been published.
Please join the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights next fall to celebrate the many contributions - past and present - the Institute has made to international human rights over the past quarter century. Please read, Howard Tolley. Jr., A History of the Institute (pdf).
For more information, please email Nancy Ent or call 513-556-0068
The Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
Established in 1979, the Urban Morgan Institute
for Human Rights is a privately
endowed program at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, dedicated
to the study, promotion and protection of international human rights.
Parking
Parking
is available at the CCM garage. Guests may enter the garage from Corry
Street, west off Jefferson. The Deaconess Hospital parking garage on
Straight Street, west off Clifton Avenue, may be available.