File 5 - Human Rights First, 2004-2005

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UGA P143/1/11/5

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Human Rights First, 2004-2005

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  • 10/03/2004-28/07/2005

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138pp

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Material in this file relates to the organisation Human Rights First (HRF), formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR), and includes quarterly update relating to the amicus briefs filed by HRF in landmark Supreme Courts cases, 10/03/2004; HRF report "Ending Secret Detentions", 06/2004; articles and correspondence relating to the US interrogation of detainees, June 2004; confidential draft concept paper "No To Terrorism, No to Torture - The Global Human Rights Campaign", which includes a paper by Wilder Tayler, Legal and Policy Director of Human Rights Watch, read at the International Commission of Jurists' conference, 25/08/2004; correspondence between Mike Posner, Executive Director HRF and Mary Robinson including a HRF board update and text of speech he gave at seminar on Memory, Truth and Justice, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 04-15/03/2005; material relating to the IACHR [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] and petition filed in Human Rights Tribunal, 04/04/2005; correspondence from Posner to John Ruggie, Special Advisor to the Secretary General United Nations on the Global Compact, in relation to a review of the initiative, 01/06/2005.

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      07/10/2024
      05/11/2024

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