Program

DAY 1 - MONDAY, JULY 4 2011

 8:30 - 9 a.m. Welcoming participants

 9 a.m. - 12 noon. The Universal Periodic Review Mechanism of Human Rights

Speaker: Jean-Louis Roy
Historian, Visiting scholar at the University of Montreal’s Centre de Recherche en Droit Public(CRDP), Founder of the World Observatory of Human Rights

 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. The History of International Human Rights

Speaker: Daniel Turp
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal

 5:30 - 9 p.m. Opening Cocktail (Bus service: 4:45 p.m.)

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DAY 2 - TUESDAY, JULY 5 2011

 9 a.m. - 12 noon. The United States of America and the Human Rights

Speaker: Guillaume Lavoie
Executive Director of Mission Leadership Quebec and Member of the Observatory of the United States of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair

 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. Canada, Quebec and the Human Rights

Speaker: Daniel Turp
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal

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DAY 3 - WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 2011

 9 a.m. – 12 noon. The Commonwealth and the Human Rights

Speaker: Alain Vallières
Lawyer, lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal

 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. Immigration, Refugees and the Human Rights

Speaker: Idil Atak
Postdoctoral fellow at the McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism, member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association on Refugees and Forced Migration Studies

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DAY 4 - THURSDAY, JULY 7 2011

 9 a.m. - 12 noon. Russia and the Human Rights

Speaker: Virginie Lasnier
Ph.D student at the Department of Political Science of the McGill University

 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. Dictators, Terrorists and Human Rights

Speaker: Eric David
Professor Emeritus and President of the Center for International Law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

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DAY 5 - FRIDAY, JULY 8 2011

 9 a.m. - 12 noon. China and the Human Rights

Speakers:
Stéphanie Balme
Senior Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of Tsinghua University (Beijing), Director of the program "Law, Justice and Society in China"
Ting-Sheng Lin
Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Université du Québec à Montréal

 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. Roundtable: Human Rights in 50 years... if the trend will be ahead

Speakers:
Eric David
Professor Emeritus and President of the Center for International Law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Michèle Rivet
Former President of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal
Daniel Turp
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Montreal

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DAY 6 - SATURDAY, JULY 9 2011

 9 a.m. - 12 noon. International Criminal Law and Human Rights

Speaker: Elise Groulx
Lawyer, Legal Advisor on International Criminal Law, President of the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association and Honorary President of the International Criminal Bar

 1 - 3:30 p.m. Breakfast-Roundtable: NGOs and the Human Rights

Speaker: Béatrice Vaugrante
Director of Amnistie Internationale Canada Francophone (Amnesty International Canada, French-speaking branch)

 3:45 - 4:15 p.m. Cocktail