The 2004 Amnesty International USA
Annual General Meeting (AGM)

April 16-18, 2004, Brooklyn, New York

VIGILANT JUSTICE:
SECURING HUMAN RIGHTS IN TODAY"S WORLD

Results from the AGM

View the photo gallery from AIUSA's 2004 Annual General Meeting.

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AGM 2004 Opening Plenary
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Friday, 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm

AGM WELCOMING PLENARY:

• Welcoming Remarks: Kathy Bachman, Chair, Board of Directors, AIUSA
• Bill Schulz, Executive Director, AIUSA
• Speaker: Akallo Grace Grall
• 2004 Ginetta Sagan Fund Award Presentation: Host: Julianne Cartwright Traylor, Co-Chair, Ginetta Sagan Fund Award Committee
  Award Recipient: Nebahat Akkoc, Founder, The Women's Center (KAMER), Turkey

AGM 2004 Focus Plenary
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Saturday, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

AGM FOCUS PLENARY

"Vigilant Justice: Securing Human Rights in Today's World"

• Jessica Stern, Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
• Steve Macpherson Watt, Center for Constitutional Rights, working on cases of Guantanamo Bay detainees
• Taslima Nasrin, Author, Medical Doctor and Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
• John Shattuck, Chief Executive Officer, John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation
• Mary Robinson, Executive Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Host and Moderator:
  Joshua Rubenstein, Director, Northeast Region, AIUS
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AGM 2004 North Korea
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Saturday, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

AGM PANEL: "Human Rights and Hunger: Democratic People's Republic of North Korea"

• David Hawk, former Executive Director of AIUSA and author of The Hidden Gulag
• Kim Yong who escaped from a North Korean prison camp will provide a view of life inside the DPRK.
• Moderator Jack Rendler, AIUSA country coordinator for North Korea

PLENARY SESSION: AGM 2004 Priorities Discussion
Members only
Sunday, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Sectional Priority Plenary Meeting

AGM 2004 Stop Violence Against Women Panel
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Saturday, 4:15 pm

AGM PANEL: "End Violence Against Women Fueled by Identity-Based Discrimination"

• Charlotte Bunch, Writer, Feminist, Activist; former Executive Director and founder of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University; currently runs Interfem Consultants; Recipient of the 1999 Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.
• Claudia, Member of TASSC (Torture Abolition Survivors Support Coalition).
• Andrea Ritchie, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
• Nebahat Akkoc, Founder of anti-violence organization, KAMER (Turkey) 2004 Ginetta Sagan Award Recipient.
• Moderator: Sheila Dauer, Director, Women's Human Rights Program, AIUSA