Events
Conference
Date: November 27 2004
Location: Royal National Hotel, London
The main event at the conference was an international discussion,
'Human Rights in the 21st Century', organised as follows :
'HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE WAR AGAINST TERROR'
Contributors:
- Azmat Begg (father of Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg)
- Louise Christian and Gareth Peirce(human rights lawyers)
- Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights, USA)
- Massoud Shadjareh (Islamic Human Rights Commission)
Moderator:
David Rose, author of 'Guantanamo - America's War on Human Rights'
David Rose, author of 'Guantanamo - America's War on Human Rights'
Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Lev Ponamarev, All-Russian Movement for Human Rights
Anna Politkovskaya, Amnesty award winning journalist and author of 'Putin's Russia'
Anna Politkovskaya, Amnesty award winning journalist and author of 'Putin's Russia'
'HUMAN RIGHTS - TODAY'S AGENDA'
Contributors:
- Conor Gearty (Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE)
- Adam Price MP (Plaid Cymru)
- Vanessa Redgrave (co-founder of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission)
- Philippe Sands QC (Professor of International Law, UCL)
- Liza Schuster (senior researcher on asylum and immigration)
- Mark Seddon (journalist)
- Phil Shiner (Public Interest Lawyers)
- Burns Weston (Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights)