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.

Material in this file relates to the Hearing of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)'s Eminent Jurists Panel (EJP) on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, Washington College of Law, 06-08/09/2006, and plenary meeting 9-11/09/2006 and consists of agendas, itineraries, correspondence (letter and email), reports and other research material, press articles, press releases and handwritten notes from the plenary meeting.

Material includes notes for discussion at the plenary meeting, framework and other documentation relating to the report on the hearings to be produced by the ECJ; press release relating to the ECJ concluding their visit, 14/09/2006; material relating to an earlier visit to London by ECJ to examine UK Law in relation to Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights which fed in to the US plenary meeting discussion, April 2006; two articles/blogs/papers posted by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker Fact, "Annals of the Pentagon", on how an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted, 20/02/2006, and "the clandestine Life of America's top Al Qaeda source", 04/09/2006; concept paper on Human Rights and Terrorism in Africa, Ibrahima Kane 09/2006; copy/draft US Bill "Military Commissions Act of 2006", 2006; photocopy of Memorandum for Inspector General, Department of the Navy, re Statement for the Record: Office of General Counsel Involvement in Interrogation Issues, stamped 07/07/2004 and marked "Secret - Unclassified upon removal of attachments" (no attachments); fax message from Gay J McDougall to Mary Robinson inviting her for dinner following hearings and commenting on comprehensiveness of hearings; dinner invite from Dean Claudio Grossman, WCL [American University Washington College of Law] Community, in honour of the EJP hearing, 07/09/2006.

Material in this file relates to the Hearing of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)'s Eminent Jurists Panel (EJP) on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, Washington College of Law, 06-08/09/2006, and consists of typed submissions, statements, email correspondence, reports and other research material, press articles and press releases.

Material includes correspondence from Colleen Kelly, Steering Committee of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, 23/05-12/07/2005; briefing note for EJP members covering the key issues related to trials of Terrorism suspects in the US and the invocation of State Secrets Privilege [08?]/2006; memorandum to EJP members from Bob Goldman relating to exploring conflation of terrorism and warfare, 01/09/2006; written submission of Professor Neal Katyal , Georgetown University Law Centre, 06/09/2005; typed presentation by James P Cullen, Brigadier General, retired, US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, on "Interrogation and Treatment of Detained Persons in Armed Conflict", 06/09/2006; typed testimony of John D Hutson, Dean and President, Franklin Pierce Law Centre, 06/09/2006; typed statement of Leonard S Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human rights, 06/09/2006; typed testimony of Eugene R Fidell, President, National Institute of Military Justice and Partner, Feldsman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, on "Military Commissions and the Legislative Process", 07/09/2006; typed statement of Steven G Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (USA), 07/09/2006; typed submission on behalf of Mr Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri by his attorneys including Jonathan Hafetz, Brennan Center for Justice, at NYU School of Law, 30/08/2006; typed testimony of Donald W Goodrich, Chairman of Board , Families of September 11 on "Defining 'Terrorism' and the impact of the 'War on Terror' in the United States of America", 6-8/09/2006; typed statements from Jennifer Saskal, Advocacy Director, US Program, and Kareem Shora, Director, Legal Department and Policy, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American University Washington College of Law, 08/09/2006; typed statement of J Bradley Jansen, Director CFPHR [Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights], 08/09/2006; typed summary of issues on "Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Fundamental Freedoms", Marc Rotenberg, President, Electronic Privacy Information Center, 08/09/2006; press releases by EJP expressing concerns on issues following country visits, 11/02-14/09/2006, and press release relating to the US hearings, 06/09/2006; printed electronic copies of online news articles relating to the hearings 05-08/09/2006; fact sheets and printed statements, from President George W Bush's Office, The White House, 05-06/09/2006; typed transcript of letter sent to Anant P Raut, Attorney at Law, by unidentified detainees, [Guantanamo?], 31/05/2006; chart "Guantanamo by the Numbers", relating to breakdown of numbers of detainees arrested, numbers transferred to US custody, numbers charged and other factors, 2006; copy of flyer distributed by US Forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11, and translations, 200[?]; extract of UNHR Commission report, [04/2005?]; advanced unedited version of concluding observations from Human Rights Committee, 87th session 10-28/07/2006; draft copy of report Senate Legislative Counsel "to establish procedures for the review of electronic surveillance programmes", 13/07/2006; Council of Europe follow-up document on Secretary General's reports "under article 52 ECHR on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts..." 30/06/2006; copy of Bill introduced to 109th Congress (US), "To update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978", 18/07/2006; photocopy of US Department of Defence Directive relating to the" Detainee Program", 05/09/2006.

Material relating to the "1992 Project". Material includes correspondence between Mary Robinson (MR) and Jurgen Schwarze, Peter Van den Bossche and Martin Becker regarding joint research project "The 1992 Challenge at National Level" between Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) and European University Institute Department of Law [See P143/1/7 and P143/3/3], 06/06/1989-04/05/1990; Irish Federation of University Teachers submission to Taoiseach concerning Third-Level Expansions, 16/10/1990; print-out of booklist at Legal Library; draft and typed quote from MR as President of Ireland, on official headed paper, on the Irish Association: "The Irish Association of which I was an active member for over twenty years, is a very effective contributor to the cause of Irish understanding, peace and reconciliation.", with handwritten note from Bride [Rosney] to Ann [Lane], n.d.

[Archivist's note: both the Legal Library book listing, and the quote from MR as President of Ireland, were found in the 1992 Project folder, but may have no connection, and are kept here solely to maintain original arrangement].