The International Justice Resource Center invites you to register for this unique training seminar on the international human rights framework and its uses in civil rights and social justice advocacy, to be held at UC Hastings in San Francisco, California on June 11 and 12, 2013.

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Participants will learn about the opportunities to advance policy objectives and individual complaints by engaging with the international human rights framework, increase their knowledge of local and state governments’ implementation of international human rights standards, and gain insight into documenting violations from a human rights perspective.

Whether in individual representation or as part of broader campaigns for reform, incorporating international norms and human rights mechanisms into our advocacy strategies can yield powerful results in advancing civil rights and social justice. Attorneys engaged in public interest or criminal defense work, as well as advocates focused on civil rights and social justice issues, will gain a fundamental understanding of the relevance of the international human rights framework to protecting their clients and communities’ basic rights and freedoms.

Separate panel discussions, led by some of the country’s most experienced practitioners, will focus on the United Nations human rights mechanisms, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, domestic litigation of international norms, local and state level implementation of human rights standards, and documenting human rights abuses.

Confirmed participants include: Roxanna Altholz (Berkeley Law), Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group), Colin Bailey (Environmental Justice Coalition for Water), James Cavallaro (Stanford Law), Jamil Dakwar (ACLU), David Kaye (UC Irvine Law), Risa Kaufman (Columbia Law School), Chimène Keitner (UC Hastings), Karen Musalo (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies), Zoe Polk (SF Human Rights Commission), and Alberto Saldamando (International Indigenous Human Rights Advocate).

This training has been approved for over 10 Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit hours by the State Bar of California. For additional details and to register, please visit the training registration page.  We hope you will join in this important discussion!