SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
1:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Opening
Raquel Rolnik, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
National Town Hall Forum
Raquel Rolnik, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009
9:00 - 10:55 a.m.
Opening Plenary: Case Studies in the Human Right to Housing
Maria Foscarinis, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Eric Tars, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Tiffany Gardner, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative
J.R. Fleming, Coalition to Protect Public Housing
Rob Robinson, Picture the Homeless
Becky Dennison, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Sam Jackson, May Day New Orleans
11:10 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.
Workshop 1: Housing and Human Rights 101
Eric Tars, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Jane Moisan, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Workshop 2: Intersectional Challenges in Access to Housing
Mellor Willie, National American Indian Housing Council
Rich Hooks-Wayman, National Alliance to End Homelessness
Lenora Lapidus, American Civil Liberties Union
Tzili Mor, International Women's Human Rights Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center, 2006-2009
Brook Kelly, HIV Human Rights Attorney, National Positive Women's Network
Soraya Fata, Georgetown Law Student and Researcher, "Refugee Crisis in America: Iraqis and Their Resettlement Experience"
Workshop 3: Human Right to Housing and Education for Homeless Children
Kelley Connolly, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Barbara Duffield, National Association for the Education of Homeless Children & Youth
Christina Jordan, National Center on Family Homelessness
Chester Hartman, Poverty & Race Research Action Council
12:45 - 1:45 p.m.
Lunch Plenary
Frank McMillan, Participation and the Practice of Rights Project
Doug Schenkelberg, Heartland Alliance for Human Rights & Human Needs
Max Rameau, Take Back the Land
1:50 - 3:20 p.m.
Workshop 1: Combating Criminalization Using Human Rights
Tulin Ozdeger, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Becky Dennison, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Workshop 2: Domestic Violence and the Gender Component to the Human Right to Housing
Sandra Park, American Civil Liberties Union
Larisa Kofman, District Alliance for Safe Housing
Workshop 3: Preventing Homelessness
Jason Small, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Rob Robinson, Picture the Homeless
Jonathan Smith, Legal Aid D.C.
Max Rameau, Take Back the Land
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Workshop 1: Human Right to Housing as a Component of Policy Advocacy
Eric Tars, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
Michael Kane, National Alliance of HUD Tenants
Doug Schenkelberg, Heartland Alliance for Human Rights & Human Needs
Andy Silver, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
Workshop 2: Health Care is a Human Right
John Lozier, National Health Care for the Homeless Coalition
Becky Dennison, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Workshop 3: Development Based Evictions
Tiffany Gardner, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative
D'Angelo Bester, National Training & Information Center
J.R. Fleming, Coalition to Protect Public Housing
5:15 - 6:00 p.m.
Closing Plenary
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