File 4 - Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 2002-2003

112pp

Material in this file relates to the organisation Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR), which later becomes Human Rights First and includes excerpt from Office of the Inspector General, United States of America (US) Department of Justice document covering a review of the treatment of "Aliens held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks", 200[?]; email from Mike Posner in relation to meeting Mary Robinson (MR) in New York, 28/03/2002; report "Extracts from the Report of the ISHR [International Service for Human Rights] Delegation to East Timor, 15-28/05/2002; photocopy of paper "Commitments by African heads of State to Peace, Democracy, Human Rights and Associated Issues", 07/2002; photocopy of LCHR report "A Year of Loss - Re-examining Civil Liberties since September 11", 09/2002; articles relating to US attorney James Brosnahan, Jan 2002-May 2003; photocopy of reply from S Iqbal Riza, on behalf of the Secretary General of the United Nations to letter from Posner expressing concern at the decision to appoint Sergio Vieira de Mello, MR's replacement as UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, to the temporary role of Special Representative for Iraq, and the effect this would have on the standing of the Office of the HCHR, 02/06/2003; print outs of various articles relating to or by Yale Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Jan-July 2003; correspondence relating to the LCHR's report "Assessing the New Normal", 22/09-19/12/2003.

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