[hr-education-na] Symposium on human rights in Asia (Washington, DC, Sept 30-Oct 10, 2003)

Central Asia Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Democracy and Reform
American University Washington College of Law
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
September 30 - October 10

The American University Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights
and Humanitarian Law and the Central and Eastern European and Newly
Independent States Student Organization (CEENISSO) cordially invite you to
join us for a two-week symposium on human rights in Central Asia.  The
symposium will analyze some of the many challenges of transition in this
complex region through a human rights lens.

All events will take place at the Washington College of Law, 4801
Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington DC and are free of charge.  For more
information, please call 202-274-4180 or visit our website at:  
www.wcl.american.edu/humright/center.cfm

Panel discussions include:

>From the Silk Road to the Soviet Union and Beyond: An Overview of Central 
Asian History and Human Rights
Date: Tuesday, September 30, WCL Room 401, 12pm
-       Professor Charles Fairbanks, Director, Central Asia-Caucasus 
Institute, Johns Hopkins SAIS
-       Elizabeth Andersen, Executive Director, Central Asia Division, 
Human Rights Watch
-       Dr. Michael Ochs, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Keynote Address: The Honorable Lorne W. Craner, Assistant Secretary of 
State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Date: Thursday, October 2, WCL Room 603, 4pm (Reception to Follow)

Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Approaches to Activating the Rule of Law in Central Asia
Date: Tuesday, October 7, WCL Room 401, 12pm
-       Professor Herman Schwartz, Washington College of Law
-       Dr. Martha Brill Olcott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
-       Richard Paton, Country Director for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, 
American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative 
(ABA/CEELI)
-       Chris Krafchak, Country Director for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and 
Tajikistan, American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law 
Initiative (ABA/CEELI)

Thriving Pipelines and Dying Seas: The Conflict over Natural Resources in 
Central Asia
Date:  Friday, October 10, WCL Room 401, 12pm
-       Kate Watters, Development Coordinator, Public 
EnvironmentalMonitoring Co-Coordinator, and Iran Program Co-Coordinator, 
Crude Accountability
-       Doug Norlen, Policy Director, Pacific Environment
-       Mark Cameron, Desk Officer for Uzbekistan, US Department of State
-       Jan Kalicki, Counselor for International Strategy, Chevron/Texaco 
(invited)



Hadar Harris, Esq.
Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
American University Washington College of Law
Phone: 202.274.4291
Fax: 202.274.0783
Email: hharris@wcl.american.edu




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