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The Human Rights Interviews

Posted on 6 April 202127 September 2021 By Sergejs Dilevka

Join the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights and the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute for the first event of their new series, “The Human Rights Interviews.” The series will examine human rights and rule of law issues of global concern in-depth with prominent experts and advocates.

This event will take place on April 8, 2021 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM US Eastern. Baroness Helena Kennedy, Director of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, and Alberto Mora, ABA Associate Executive Director for Global Programs, will interview Ambassador David J. Scheffer, the series’ first guest, to discuss Uyghur genocide in China and efforts to pass crimes against humanity legislation in the United States.

Ambassador David J. Scheffer is Vice-President of the American Society of International Law, a Visiting Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is also Clinical Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. From 2006 through 2020 he was the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and from 2006 to 2019 the Director of the Center for International Human Rights. From 2012 to 2018 he was the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Expert on U.N. Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. He was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation to the U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court. He signed the Rome Statute of the ICC on behalf of the United States on December 31, 2000. He negotiated the creation of five war crimes tribunals and chaired the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group (1998-2001). He received the Berlin Prize in 2013 and the Champion of Justice Award of the Center for Justice and Accountability in 2018.

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