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First Annual Public Lecture of the National Committee on Humanitarian Law
Date : November 4, 1998 (7:00 pm)
Organism : Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Based out of: Geneva
Event Location: Alumni Hall, Ottawa University (ON)
Free admission

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Open Forum with Sadako Ogata: "Global Challenges Facing the UN High Commissioner for Refugees"
Date : November 6, 1998 (2:30-3:30 pm)
Organism : UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Based out of: Geneva
Event Location: Senate Chamber (N940 Ross Building), York University (ON)
Contact Person: Anne Bayefsky, Director Centre for Refugee Studies

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Building History: Legal Memory, Contemporary Judgements
Date : November 8th to 13th,1998
Organism : B'nai B'rith Institute for International Affairs
Based out of: North York (ON)
Event Location: Ottawa (ON)
Brief description : This is the third symposium in a prestigious series that brings together academics, educators and scholars for the purpose of exchanging pedagogy and research on the Holocaust. Building History will examine the integration of the Holocaust within North American culture. Two days of the conference will be devoted to war crimes and human rights law. Investigators and prosecutors of Nazi and modern war criminals, legal scholars, historians, educators and human rights experts will assess the reasons for the failure of the international community to deal effectively with Nazi war criminals so that the problems that have resulted in impunity for the perpetrators of the Holocaust will not be repeated in cases of contemporary human rights violatons.
Contact Person: Lisa Armony Telephone : tel: (416) 633-6224 ext.122

fax: (416) 630-2159
Web Site: Email: larmony@bnaibrith.ca
For More Information:

Lisa Armony
National Director
Institute for International Affairs
15 Hove Street
North York, ON
M3H 4Y8

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Open Forum with Mary Robinson; "Implementing Human Rights: The Next 50 Years"
Date : November 24, 1998 (10:30-11:30 am)
Organism : UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Based out of: Geneva
Event Location: Winters College Dining Room, York University (ON)
Contact Person: Anne Bayefsky, Director Centre for Refugee Studies

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OXFAM- Canada University Course, " A Developing World: An Introductory Course on Development Issues and Prospects"
Date : Thursday evenings from 7pm to 10 pm, from Oct. 15 to November 26
Organism : OXFAM-Canada
Based out of: Ottawa, Ontario
Event Location: Simard Building, Room 125 at the University of Ottawa
Brief description : The OXFAM-Canada Local Committee is offering a fall course entitled "A Developing World: An Introductory Course on Development Issues and Prospects". The topics that will be covered include: What is development (Oct. 15)
Health (Oct. 22)
Food and Water Issues (Oct. 29)
Debt and Structural Adjustment (Nov.5)
Gender and Development (Nov.12)
Child Labour (Nov. 19)
Globalization (Nov. 26)

Health fee is $40 for waged persons and $20 for unwaged persons and students.

Contact Person: Galen

or Arbour Recycled Products

 Telephone : tel: (613) 759-4366

(613) 567-3168

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Universal Rights and Human Values: A Blueprint for Peace, Justice and Freedom
Date : November 26th to 28th,1998
Organism : Canadian Human Righs Foundation
Based out of: Montreal, QC
Event Location: Edmonton, AB
Brief description : This is an international conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sessions include:

- Freedom of Expression in a Multi-Media Universe: Rights, Limits and Dangers

- The Economy, the Environment and Human Rights: Cross Currents or Parallel Streams?

- Global Security and Human Rights: The Case for Disarmament

- Bioethics and Biotechnology: Building a Human Rights Framework

- Human Rights and Foreign Policy

- Human Rights and Transnational Corporations: People or Profits?

Speakers include:

- Max Yalden ,United Nations Human Rights Committee

- Lloyd Axworthy, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada

- Judy Rebick, Former President, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada

- Jules Deschênes, Former Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Canada
Contact Person:   Telephone : tel: (403) 453-2638

fax: (403) 482-1519
Web Site: www.tnc.com/hrc Email: hrc@tnc.com
For More Information:

International Human Rights Conference
Box/CP 11661
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5J 3K8

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