{"id":8139,"date":"2016-10-18T20:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2016-10-20T18:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:28:23","slug":"human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/news\/human-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Litigators and Attorneys Speak on Current and Past Human Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leading litigators, human rights attorneys and activists were brought\u00a0into conversation \u00a0at a one day conference convened by\u00a0University of Washington School of Law<\/a>,\u00a0UW\u00a0Center for Human Rights<\/a>, and cosponsored by The Jackson School for International Studies\u00a0Center for Global Studies<\/a>\u00a0and other sponsors<\/a>. Named “Human Rights Abuses: Expose the Cover-ups,” this conference\u00a0engaged crucial contemporary and historical human rights questions, and government (including the US government) roles in such.<\/p>\n

Speakers\u00a0at this conference knew the day-to-day complications of \u00a0problematizing notions of “law” and “security.” Vince Warren, (Executive Director, of the Center for Constitutional Rights), and Almudena Bernabeu, (Director of the Center for Justice and Accountability), gave\u00a0the co-keynote address on “expanding the concept of human rights and defeating attempts to cover-up crimes.” Session speakers and panelists conveyed their\u00a0experiences \u00a0and insight\u00a0through powerful\u00a0poetry and in-depth case studies of their own advocacy activism and academic research, painting a very real picture of the lives of those caught in legalized human rights abuse cases. Conference speakers were also able to address questions from grassroots activists, law students, and attorneys in practice.<\/p>\n

“What we’re really talking about is a culture shift,” summarized Nikkita Oliver, one of the panelists and a Seattle based creative, attorney and anti-racist organizer. Indeed,\u00a0from\u00a0deconstructing narratives used as justification for mass incarceration, to analyzing government(s) silence around human rights violations in South and Central American in the 1980’s, the culture-shifting message spoke to\u00a0the need to see the connection between the local and international fight for human rights, and to look beyond “cover-ups” that \u00a0distract from the action that is required to restore accountability.<\/p>\n

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