This Thursday: Human Rights at Home and Abroad

Human Rights Fellows Conference

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This Thursday, Human Rights Fellows from seven U.C. campuses will gather at Berkeley's International House to report on their fieldwork in Angola, Brazil, Colombia, Laos, Mexico, Paraguay, Tanzania and multiple locations in the U.S.

Panels will address critical issues including safe shelters for sexual violence survivors, land rights in the Serengeti, human collateral of the drug wars in the US and Mexico, the politics of coal in Appalachia, reproductive rights in the U.S. and Angola, human trafficking in California and immigrants' rights for undocumented LGBTQ youth.

Please see the schedule below. A reception will follow the last panel.

We hope you can join us for this inspiring event.

Best wishes,

K. Alexa Koenig
Interim Executive Director

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Working for Human Rights
at Home and Abroad

2012 Human Rights Fellows Conference

November 1, 2012

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Reception 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Home Room, International House
2299 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, CA

9:00-10:00AM - BREAKFAST

10:15-11:30AM - (MIS)INFORMATION: THE POLITICS OF TRUTH

Catalina Hernandez - Literatures and Cultures, UC Merced

Choices in Childbirth * United States

Samantha Stevens - Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz

African Network for Animal Welfare * Tanzania, Kenya

Leonora Paula - Literature, UC San Diego

Union of Housing Movements in S�o Paulo * S�o Paulo, Brazil

Divya Vohra and Aidan Tait - Epidemiology and Joint Medical Program, UC Berkeley and UCSF

Population Services International (PSI) - Angola * Luanda, Angola

11:40AM-12:50PM - COLLECTIVE RIGHTS IN TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPES

Anonymous - City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Anonymous organization * Paraguay

Leah Zani - Anthropology, UC Irvine

Mines Advisory Group * Lao PDR

Gabe Schwartzman - Geography, UC Berkeley

Blair Heritage Alliance * West Virginia, USA

Hannah Birnbaum - City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Detroit Collaborative Design Center * Detroit, USA

1:00-2:00PM - LUNCH BREAK

2:00-2:30PM - KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Thomas J. White - Human Rights Center Advisory Board

2:30-3:40PM - SEEKING SAFE HAVEN

Habiba Simjee - Law, UC Berkeley

Casa Cornelia Law Center * San Diego, CA

Olga Tomchin - Law, UC Berkeley

National Center for Lesbian Rights * San Francisco, CA

Monica Crooms - Law, UC Davis

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles - Torture Survivors Project * Los Angeles, CA

Shane Collins - Global Health Sciences, UC San Francisco

Sexual Violence and Accountability Project, HRC * Berkeley, CA

3:50-5:00PM - DISCARDED, DETAINED, DISAPPEARED

Hannah Labaree - Law, UC Davis

Equal Justice Initiative * Montgomery, Alabama

Nicole Lindahl - Jurisprudence & Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Project Rebound, San Francisco State University * San Francisco, CA Anonymous - Law, UC Berkeley

Anonymous Organization * Mexico

Anonymous - Sociology, UC Berkeley

Anonymous Organization * Colombia

5:00-6:00PM - RECEPTION

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