23259: Joseph: HAITI--A Troubled State (9/29 @ 6:30) -- in Washington, DC

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Dotie Joseph <dotiej@hotmail.com>


FOREIGN POLICY AND HUMAN RIGHTS





A PANEL DISCUSSION

                          Caribbean food reception to follow



Admission is free of charge, but we will be accepting donations

to support relief efforts for recent hurricane victims in Haiti



WHEN:                       6:00-8:00pm, Wednesday, September 29th, 2004



WHERE:                     Georgetown University Law Center

                             Hart Auditorium (600 New Jersey Ave, )

                             McDonough Hall



MODERATOR:         Robert Maguire, Director of Trinity College Haiti Program



PANELISTS:          Raymond Joseph, Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of Haiti
Robert Fatton, Professor and Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Department of
Politics, University of Virgina

Erin Corcoran, Asylum Program staff attorney, Human Rights First
Andrew S.E. Erickson, Deputy Director/Haiti desk, Office of Caribbean Affairs –
to be confirmed

Eugenia Charles-Mathurin – Director, Foundation Mapou

Brian Concannon, Aristide's Attorney, Bureaux des Avocats Internationaux – to
be confirmed

Jocleyn Mccalla, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Haitian
Rights (NCHR) – to be confirmed



CO-SPONSORS:             Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the
Americas

Georgetown School of Foreign Service Human Rights Forum

Caribbean Law Students Association

Black Law Students Association

International Law Society

National Lawyers’ Guild

La Alianza del Derecho

Amnesty International