[hr-education-na] Right to Water event (Washington, DC, March 18, 2005)

OPENING THE FLOODGATES ON A FINITE RESOURCE:
The Implications of a Human Right to Water

FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2005
9:00 AM – 1:15 PM
ROOM 603

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW
4801 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON, DC  20016

SPONSORED BY THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT LAW & POLICY PUBLICATION AND
THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND
HUMANITARIAN LAW

The United Nations recently declared 2005 to 2015 the International
Decade for Action “Water for Life.”  In honor of this new decade of
water, the Sustainable Development Law & Policy (“SDLP”) Publication
and the Center for Human Rights will present a half-day conference
focusing on the debate about whether there should be a human right to
water.

FRIDAY, MARCH 18
8:30 AM – 9:00AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM
Welcome Remarks
Melanie Nakagawa and Kirk Herbertson – Editors-in-Chief, Sustainable
Development Law and Policy

9:10 AM – 10:30 AM
Is There a Human Right to Water?
Panelists:
Karin Krchnak – Director of International Water Policy, The Nature
Conservancy

Salman Salman – Lead Counsel, Environmentally and Socially
Sustainable Development and International Law Group of the World Bank
Presidency, The World Bank

Steven Tullberg – Lawyer for International Indigenous Rights

Moderator:
Hadar Harris – Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, WCL

10:45AM – 12:15 PM
Water Conflicts and the Effects of a Human Right to Water
Panelists:
Reid Chambers – Partner; Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Enderson, and
Perry, LLP

Prof. Fredrick Lorenz – University of Washington, Seattle

Marcos Orellana – Senior Attorney, Center for International
Environmental Law

Moderator:
Prof. David Hunter – Director, Program on International and
Comparative Environmental Law, WCL

12:15PM – 1:15 PM
LUNCH
Introduction:
Dan McNamee – Student Advisory Board, Center for Human Rights &
Humanitarian Law

Keynote Speaker:
Ambassador John McDonald – Institute of Multi-Track Diplomacy and
Global Water

Ambassador McDonald served as US Coordinator during the previous UN
Decade on Drinking Water and Sanitation.

Closing Remarks:
Kristen McGeeney – Publications Manager and Senior Articles Editor,
Sustainable Development Law & Policy


TO REGISTER:
REGISTER ON LINE AT WWW.WCL.AMERICAN.EDU/SECLE/
AND CLICK ON EVENT REGISTRATION

THE EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE




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