February 28 NYC Consultation - Remote attendance information
United States Universal Periodic Review: A Dialogue with Civil Society & UN Missions
February 28, 1:00-2:30PM
The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, 320 E. 43rd Street, New York, NY 10017.
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Agenda
Welcoming Remarks from Rachel Pittman, Executive Director, United Nations Association of the USA (5 minutes)
Remarks from Moderator Joshua Cooper, Director, Hawaii Human Rights Institute; U.S. Human Rights Network UPR Task Force Co-Chair; and Member: UNA-USA National Council (5 minutes)
Presentations from Civil Society (please limit presentations to two minutes each) (60 mins in total)
Indigenous Rights
Bernadette Demientieff, Gwich’in Steering Committee
Zoe Osterman, First Peoples Worldwide
Cristina Cabrera, Land and Water Sovereignty Campaign
Immigration, Refugees, and Displaced People
Miriam Abaya, Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Denise Bell, Amnesty International USA
Jeanne Betsock Stillman, UNA Southern New York State Division
Michael Salm, UNA-USA Northern New Jersey Chapter
Gender and Reproductive Justice
Amanda McRae, Women Enabled International
Kate Kelly, Equality Now
Kerry McLean, Center for Pan-African Affairs and National Lawyers Guild
Penelope Saunders, Best Practices Policy Project
Risa Kaufman, Center for Reproductive Rights
Logan Kenney, Gender Justice Clinic, Cornell Law School
Farrah Diaz-Tello, If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
Criminal Justice
Jamil Dakwar, ACLU
Thomas H. Speedy Rice, Death Penalty Focus
Jenipher Jones, JLS International Law Project
Anne LaBarbera, JLS International Law Project
Andrea Lorea, CfJJ
Cynthia Soohoo, HRGJ Clinic, CUNY School of Law
Local, City, and State Issues
Rachel Bergsieker, American Friends Service Committee
David Stillman, UNA/SNY and Public-Private Alliance Foundation
Marcia Brewster, UNA-Westchester
Leon Siu, Koani Foundation/Ke Aupuni Hawaii
JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
Jacob Flowers, American Friends Service Committee
Bamisope Adeyanju, Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic
Question and Answer Session with UN Diplomatic Missions (10 minutes)
Fernando Guzman, Second Secretary, Mission of Chile
Tim Sylvester, Second Secretary, Mission of the United Kingdom
Closing Remarks from JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Director, Human Rights in the U.S. Project at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Clinic (5 minutes)