50 Years: Amnesty International & Human Rights

Event
Thu, 2011-12-08

50 Years: Amnesty International & Human Rights

Co-sponsored by: Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research, Human Rights Institute, and Columbia Center for Oral History

Panel 1 3 - 4:15 p.m. On Torture

Sowore Omoyele Former student leader and prisoner of conscience in Nigeria

Vincent Warren Center for Constitutional Rights

Dr. Allen Keller Bellevue/NYU Program for the Survivors of Torture

 

Panel 2 4:30 - 5:45 p.m. On Capital Punishment

Laura Moye Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, AIUSA

Lawrence Hayes Former inmate on death row in New York

Vincent Southerland NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Reception and Global Write-A-Thon to follow the panels.

For further information: chrdr@columbia.edu (212) 854-3630

Free and open to the public

Event Time: 3PM

Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia University
410 West 117th Street
New York, NY 10027
United States