Constitutional Law

Don't Forget! A Roundtable Discussion on Deportations to Torture Today

By Jessica Monaco, ACLU

Steven Watt from the ACLU's Human Rights Program will participate in a roundtable discussion on diplomatic assurances against torture at Columbia Law School in New York City.

Join us! The discussion is open to the public:
When: Thursday, February 10, 4:20 - 6:20 pm
Where: Columbia Law School, 435 W 116th Street, Jerome Greene Hall Room 103

Professor Peter Rosenblum, faculty codirector of Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute, will moderate the panel discussion, which will also feature:

• Julia Hall, Amnesty International

• Felice Gaer, member of the United Nations' Committee Against Torture and Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

• Ashley Deeks of Columbia Law School and former Assistant Legal Adviser for Political-Military Affairs at the Department of State

• Naureen Shah of Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute and the report's author.

And if you can't attend the event, watch it stream live at http://www.law.columbia.edu/human-rights-institute/events/assuranceswebcast.

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Full post as published by Blog of Rights on February 10, 2011 (boomark / email).