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Dates for your Diary 2020

Dates for your Diary 2020**All of the below are online via Zoom**

12^th Oct - Gerry Liston, Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) “Climate change and the European Court of Human Rights: the Portuguese Youth4ClimateJustice case”
Read more at: https://www.glanlaw.org/ and at: https://youth4climatejustice.org/
Climate Justice Lecture Series: Irish Centre for Human Rights
Time: 1pm – 2.15pm 

13^th Oct - Aonghus Kelly, ‘From Galway to Dublin, via Basra, Bosnia, Belfast and Benghazi: the wanderings of an Irish lawyer’
Time: 1pm - 2pm 

19^th -30^th Oct Human Rights Law Clinic ‘Community Organiser Lecture Fortnight’, with evening presentations and Q&A from 5 to 6.30pm on up to 7 evenings. Speakers to include Mary Harney (Adoption Rights Alliance), Saoirse McHugh (Talamh Beo), Evgeny Shtorn (Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland), Clare O'Connor (Inner City Helping Homeless) and Johnny McElligott (Safety Before LNG). More details to follow. These evening events will be online and open to all ICHR students.
Time: 5pm – 6.30pm 

22^nd Oct - Ambassador Michael Gaffey, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN and other International Organisations at Geneva ‘Multilateralism and Human Rights: Engaging with the UN Human Rights Council and the Security Council’
Time:  1pm - 2pm 

29th Oct - Dr Michelle Farrell, ‘The UK, International Law and International Crimes: Interrogating the Overseas Operations Bill’
Time: 1-2pm

 03^rd Nov – Amal de Chicera, Statelessness Institute ‘ Statelessness, Trafficking and Rohingya communities’
Time: 5 – 7pm

05^th Nov – Prof Beth van Schaack ‘Imagining Justice for Syria’.
Time: 4 – 5pm 

9^th Nov - Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression ‘Freedom of Opinion and Expression: Contemporary Challenges for a UN mandate’
Time: 4pm - 5.15pm 

12^th Nov - Professor Mark Drumbl, ‘Exposing Collaborators: Stories and Sentiments Starting in Communist Prague’
Time: 1pm - 2pm 

13^th Nov - Dr Sharifa Sekalala, Warwick University ‘The human rights impact of increased digital public health surveillance measures during the COVID-19 crisis’
Time: 1pm - 2.00pm

19^th Nov - Prof. William Schabas, ‘The War Crime of Unfair Trial’ 
Time: 1pm - 2pm

 24^th Nov – Dr Olufemi Amao, Reader, Sussex University ‘African regional/sub-regional courts’ emerging jurisprudence on free movement’
Time: 1pm – 2.30pm 

26th Nov- Dr Sharon Weill, ‘The Prosecution of Hissene Habré’
Time: 1-2pm 

3^rd Dec - Dr Edel Hughes, ‘Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Invisibility on Conflict-Related Male Sex Violence in Syria’
Time: 12 noon 

8th Dec - Dr Marica Moscati, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex will give a presentation on LGBTI Persons and Access to Justice
Time: TBC

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