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Human Rights and the Defamation of Religions

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For Immediate Release
October 14, 2009

Media Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:

"Human Rights and the Defamation of Religions"

 

WHEN:

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 1:30 - 5:00 p.m.

 

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center

Hotung Building - Dining Room

550 First Street, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

Please use Tower Green entrance.

 

SCHEDULE:

1:30 - 1:40 p.m.

Welcome Remarks

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

 

1:40 - 2:00 p.m.

Introduction

Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor, Emory Law School and Senior Visiting Fellow, Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs

 

2:00 - 2:55 p.m.

Panel 1: Defamation of Religions at the State Level

Moderator: Angela Wu, International Law Director, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

Knox Thames, Acting Executive Director, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, Senior Program Manager, Human Rights and Religious Freedom, Freedom House

 

3:00 - 3:55 p.m.

Panel 2: International Human Rights in Tension

Moderator: Ted Piccone, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director for Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution

Abdullahi An-Na-im, Charles Howard Candler Professor, Emory Law School and Senior Visiting Fellow, Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Jose Casanova, Professor, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Tad Stahnke, Director of Policy and Programs, Human Rights First

 

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Keynote Address

Frank LaRue, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression

 

NOTE:

This conference is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute and the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

A Web cast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.