File of documents relating to work of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEM) and also the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism. Includes background to members and work of the ASEAN H.R. Mechanism; Other documents include comment on Human Rights in Asia, such as class notes typed and annotated by Boyle entitled "Waiting for Godot: Prospects or a Regional Human Rights protection system in Asia Pacific. (19 Apr 2004); Essay entitled "Indigenous Peoples and International Order" by Koen de Feyter, Antwerp; TS text with MS annotation by Boyle of draft framework for Asia Pacific Conference presentation by Kevin Boyle entitled "Prospects for a regional human rights protection system in Asia Pacific." (Feb 2007); Text of article entitled "Human rights governance in East Asia - Towards a regional structure?); Paper by Kevin Boyle at ASEM - Europe InterGovernmental Human Rights Workshop, Paris, 2002, entitled "Freedom of Expression and Restriction of Freedom of Expression".
File relating to the ASEM seminar on Mobility, Diversity and Social Cohesion: Challenges and Opportunities. Kevin Boyle was a participant. Includes full seminar schedule and detail, planning email correspondence with Boyle and others regarding the seminar; various seminar reports and contributions and texts of talks and presentation presented at the seminar.
File with typed script of 'Ashes to Ashes' with words and music by Dominic Behan with additional lyrics by Sean Tierney and Jim McLean. Also includes typed letter (5 Feb 1989) from Dominic Behan, Glasgow, Scotland, to Carolyn Swift, mentions he has a new novel being published soon and asks for any comments on the playscript from Swift.
Files relating to international Human Rights Issues in Asia and related to the work of the Asia-Europe Foundation. Files related to the 6-country lecture tour which Kevin Boyle participated in in 2008.
Files relating to 6-country lecture tour of South-East Asia by Kevin Boyle and Cherin George. Venues include Bangkok, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Singapore. Includes full schedule details and planning file which includes background research, reports which influenced Boyle's and George's lectures. Also includes folder containing documents by Boyle such as print-out of presentation/lecture slides used on the tour.
Material relating to the establishment of the Asian University for Women (AUW), Bangladesh, and Mary Robinson (MR)'s involvement including faxed letter from Mrs Lone Dybkjaer, MEP and co-chair International Support committee, AUW, welcoming MR to the committee, 07/11/2001; press release announcing signing of Binding Memorandum at European Parliament, 29/01/2002; ringbound background information on AUW, published by its Support Foundation, New York, 200[2?], including copy of memorandum of understand, charter, and letters seeking funding; typed message from MR on ceremony of groundbreaking for the campus of AUW, 08/01/2004; correspondence from Kamal Ahmad to MR in relation to negotiations with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for major grant, 20/08-24/10/2005; card with handwritten note from [Kamal?] wishing MR a happy new year and thanking her for her continuing engagement until new Board of Trustees is in place, 01/2007.
Negative of image of Askeaton Friary, Co. Limerick.
Schedule of legal costs and fees incurred in the Selçuk and Asker case (A44/43/1/53), plus pages of the judgment regarding fees, notes on the division of fees awarded between the various members of the Kurdish Litigation Project team (the University of Essex team, the Kurdish Human Rights Project, and the Diyarbakır-based local lawyers), plus a letter to President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe addressing a shortfall in payment received from the Turkish Government.
Applicant's reply to the Turkish Government's observations on the admissibility of the application of Özcan Aslan to the European Commission of Human Rights, written by Françoise Hampson. She notes that the Government has not been able to refute Aslan's claims that he would face persecution were he to pursue domestic remedies, nor the applicant's assertion that any alleged remedy is ineffective and illusory in practice, and maintains the complaints of violations of the Convention made in the application.
Letter from Simon Palmer, Secretariat of the Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe, to Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson forwarding the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe's decision in the Aslantaş case and requesting bank deposit information. The Committee awarded Aslantaş £24,024.44 in pecuniary damages, 30,000 French francs in non-pecuniary damages, and £7,000 in legal fees and costs.