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9:00 – 9:30 a.m. (link above)
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
William F. Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Jane E. Stromseth, Professor of Law and Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
John D. Podesta, President, Center for American Progress, and Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. (with Welcome- above)
Keynote Address
Madeleine Albright,
Principal, The Albright Group, Mortara Distinguished Professor of
Diplomacy, Georgetown University, and former U.S. Secretary of State
Introduction: John D. Podesta, President, Center for American Progress
and Distinguished Visitor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center
10:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel: "How the U.S. Should Deal with Human Rights Abuses of Allies and Partners"
Moderator: Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Steve Coll, President and CEO, New America Foundation
James Sasser, former U.S. Ambassador to China
John Shattuck,
CEO, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; former Assistant Secretary of
State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; and former U.S. Ambassador
to the Czech Republic
Jennifer L. Windsor, Executive Director, Freedom House
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Luncheon Discussion
William F. Schulz, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Joseph Zogby, Democratic Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the
Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
Introduction: Richard Goldstone,
former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa and Distinguished
Visitor from the Judiciary, Georgetown University Law Center
2:35 – 4:00 p.m.
Panel: "Introducing Social and Economic Rights into U.S. Policy"
Moderator: Jane E. Stromseth, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Human Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law Center
Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America
Leonard Rubenstein, President, Physicians for Human Rights
Meg Roggensack, Policy Director, Free the Slaves
Eric P. Schwartz, Executive Director, Connect US
4:05 – 4:35 p.m.
Tribute to Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
This is the third annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights. It is sponsored by the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown Law and the Center for American Progress.
The
annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights was established by Samuel
Dash’s family and friends, Georgetown Law alumni and the law firm of
Cozen O’Connor to honor Dash’s contributions to international human
rights and domestic civil rights.
Dash,
who joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1965, and was on the board of
the International League of Human Rights, traversed the globe in
pursuit of justice. He led a human rights mission to Northern Ireland
to investigate the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" incident, and traveled to the
Soviet Union and Chile. In 1985, he was the first American to visit
Nelson Mandela in prison and became involved in mediation efforts that
eventually led to Mandela's release.
Dash
also served as chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee’s
investigation into the Nixon administration’s involvement in the
Democratic National Committee break-in, which ultimately led to
President Nixon’s resignation.
Dash died in 2004.
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