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Fondation Universitaire Stichting cordially invites you to a discussion and walking dinner with |
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Arrivals Introductory Remarks and Introduction to Human Rights Watch Jan Egeland: Human Rights and Impunity - Is the World Getting Better or Worse on our Watch? Peter Bouckaert: Changes and Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa Discussion Walking Dinner Evening Concludes | |||
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Please RSVP by 18 November to Caroline Eriksen at eriksec@hrw.org. Capacity is limited. Confirmations will be sent in advance of the event. 
About Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. For more than thirty years, HRW’s objective investigations and targeted advocacy in over ninety countries have built intense pressure for action and raised the cost of human rights abuse. Human Rights and the Arab Uprisings: Is the World Getting Better or Worse? Jan Egeland will give an overview of global trends that influence human rights – from armed conflicts to development and democratic governance. He will ask: is the world getting better or worse on our watch? Peter Bouckaert will explore the topic of impunity through the lens of the uprisings in the Middle East. Human Rights Watch has become a leading source of information and advocacy in the Middle East, working to hold accountable those governments responsible for grave human rights crimes; to press for international investigations and sanctions; and to promote a human rights agenda for the newly forming governments of Libya and Egypt. Join us to hear the challenges and the opportunities that the Middle East uprisings present to the region and to the world.
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Jan Egeland is a deputy executive director of Human Rights Watch and the director of its European operations. He previously served as UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from 2003 to 2006, where he helped reform the global humanitarian response system and organized the international response to the Asian Tsunami, and crises from Darfur to the Democratic Republic of Congo to Lebanon. In 2006, Time magazine named him one of the 100 “people who shape our world.” From 1999 to 2002, he was the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Colombia, and from 1990 to 1997 he was State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has substantial experience in the field of humanitarian relief and conflict resolution through the United Nations, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, the Norwegian Government and NGOs. | |||
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Peter Bouckaert, director of emergencies, is responsible for coordinating Human Rights Watch’s response to major wars and other human rights crises. A Belgian-born Stanford Law School graduate, specializing in the laws of war, Bouckaert is a veteran of fact-finding missions to Lebanon, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Macedonia, Indonesia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and many other war zones. Since the beginning of the uprisings in the MENA region, Peter Bouckaert has been in Egypt, Libya, and at the Turkish-Syrian border to monitor human rights violations. Bouckaert was recently responsible for discovering documents in the former Gaddafi compound in Tripoli that revealed a high level of cooperation between Libyan intelligence and the US and UK in the transfer of terrorism suspects. | |||
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Photo: Protesters wave a Kingdom of Libya flag during an anti-Gaddafi protest in Benghazi March 6, 2011. © 2011 Reuters |
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