Panel discussion: National Mechanisms for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Coordinated National Strategies for Confronting Contemporary Genocide

DETAILS

New York City Bar Association
42 West 44th Street New York, NY, 10036
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 6:00pm-8:00pm

SYNOPSIS

On Wednesday, February 3, 2016, the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA), in partnership with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR), will host a panel discussion entitled, “National Mechanisms for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention: Coordinated National Strategies for Confronting Contemporary Genocide”.

The event will take place at the NYC Bar and will focus on the composition, mandate, and activities of National Mechanisms, with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities that accompany their work. This discussion will explore the tools and apparatuses available to these National Mechanisms and how they are employed in developing and implementing a unified national policy for genocide and mass atrocity prevention.

PANEL

• Ambassador Tuvako N. Manongi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of the United Republic of Tanzania to the United Nations
• Ambassador Jorge Montaño, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of the United Republic of México to the United Nations
• Ambassador Federico Gonzalez, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of the United Republic of Paraguay to the United Nations
• Moderator Owen Pell, Partner at White and Case LLP and Member of the Auschwitz Institute’s Board of Directors

SPONSORS

African Affairs Committee - Elizabeth Barad and Jason Spears, Co-chairs

CO-SPONSORS

International Human Rights Committee - Anil Kalhan, Chair UN Committee - Michael D. Cooper, Chair
Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice - Alexander Papachristou, Executive Director

RSVP

AIPR’s New York Programs Officer Rob Scharf at [email][email protected] or
Elizabeth Barad at [email][email protected]

OTHER NYC EVENTS

1. MEETING OF NYC BAR’S COMMITTEE ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS

To be held at the headquarters of the Bar at 42 West 44th Street.

Monday, February 1 at 6:30 P.M.

PROFESSOR JENNIFER TRAHAN will give a presentation on her recent trip to Rwanda.

Jennifer, an Associate Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at N.Y.U., recently took her students to Rwanda where she met with, among others, the Minister of Justice, President of the Supreme Court and the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide where she received a PowerPoint presentation of their list of génocidaires.

Jennifer has served as counsel and of counsel to the International Justice Program of Human Rights Watch; served as Iraq Prosecutions Consultant to the International Center of Transitional Justice; and worked on cases before the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She is the author of “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda”, and “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.” She is also the author of scores of law review articles, including about the Iraqi High Tribunal, the crimes in Darfur, and the International Criminal Court’s Crime of Aggression.

2. MEETING OF NYC BAR’S COMMITTEE ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS

To be held at the headquarters of the Bar at 42 West 44th Street.

Monday, March 7 at 6:30 P.M.

PROFESSOR MIKE POSNER will give a presentation on the confluence of business and human rights. He launched the first-ever center on business and human rights at a business school. He is a professor of Business and Society at NYU Stern. Prior to joining NYU Stern, Posner served from 2009 to 2013 in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the State Department. From 1978 to 2009, he led Human Rights First, a New York-based human rights advocacy organization.

Posner played a major role in shaping U.S. policy from inside and outside of government on issues ranging from refugee and asylum law and policy, national security and human rights, Internet freedom, and business and human rights. Throughout his career, he has been active in several leading organizations in the field of business and human rights, including the Fair Labor Association, the Global Network Initiative, and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.