Advocacy Meeting Agenda 11/09/05

LSHR Advocacy Committee Meeting: 11/09/05

Co-Chair Contact Info:
Jessica Chicco Sarah Parady
jessicachicco@nyu.edu sjp315@nyu.edu
(302) 383-7118 (801) 633-6073

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Agenda:
Announcements/Events?

Peek at Next Semester
More Katrina (KLA + Legislative Monitoring for NESRI)
International Labor Rights Fund (the Wal-Mart labor suit)
Continuation of almost all projects – except maybe CHRGJ/disappearances, CCR, some Katrina work.
What do you want to do next semester, now that you have a sense of how projects go?
If there is interest, we can appoint a few people to look for projects in specific subject areas for next semester.

Project Updates
WOHR
Fusion
CHRGJ – disappearances and renditions
IVP
HRW
NESRI
CCR
Katrina

New Relationship w/NYLS – mutually supporting each other’s research projects (by asking for extra members or spinning off questions) to increase overall capacity.

Direct Action
Shall we?
ISSUE
Method
Timing/Audience/Etc.
Try to get a committee together

Panel: My Summer Vacation (Vacation = Human Rights Job)
Organized by LSHR Careers Chair Stephanie Tyree (styree@nyu.edu)
Rich Vagas, Ghana National Reconciliation Commission (rtv203@nyu.edu)
Jeena Shah, Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, The Gambia (jshah@nyu.edu)
Colleen Peppard, U.N. High Commission for Human Rights, Cambodia (colleen@nyu.edu)
William van Esveld, U.N. High Commission for Refugees Regional Office, Bangkok, Thailand (williamv@nyu.edu)
Tammy Kim, Globalization Bureau, International Federation for Human Rights, Paris, France (tammy@nyu.edu)
We won’t be on the panel, but FYI:
i. Jessica Chicco worked at Georgia Capital Defenders, Atlanta, Georgia
ii. Sarah Parady worked at Legal Resources Centre, Constitutional Litigation Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa
iii. Stephanie Tyree worked at the Irish Centre for Human Rights

Advocacy Meeting Agenda 10/06/05

LSHR Advocacy Committee Meeting: 9/15/05

Co-Chair Contact Info:

Jessica Chicco Sarah Parady
jessicachicco@nyu.edu sjp315@nyu.edu
(302) 383-7118 (801) 633-6073

LSHR Blog: www.lshr.blogspot.com – use freely and check frequently!
LSHR listserve: lshr@forums.nyu.edu

Agenda:
New Projects
Katrina Legal Aid – Rebekah Cook-Mack rcm258@nyu.edu
i. FEMA underway
1. Members are looking for FEMA sites in NYC and attempting to see what services are offered there
ii. Insurance research (project from a UConn professor who’s part of KLA)
1. Envisioned final product is a memo.
2. We need to move fast on this one for obvious reasons.
3. We could use at least one person for each question (other law schools will be sending people too).
CEDAW – Jenny Tancredi jgt224@nyu.edu
i. Could use 3 or more people
ii. Involves CEDAW implementation in Nigeria
iii. Final product will be used by UNIFEM in Abuja (where Jenny worked last summer)
CCR/Guantanamo – Sarah
i. An attorney at CCR (Tina Foster) needs a total of 15 hours/week of factual research and monitoring of current cases – less writing-heavy than other things
ii. Ideally we’d like to get 5 people on this
Int’l Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission– Jes
i. Two research questions related to freedom of expression and morality legislation in Mexico.
Member projects, just FYI (we’ll tell you if anything comes of them):
i. Members are looking into land rights in Nepal
ii. Member looking into indigenous peoples
iii. Member looking in Uganda (maybe)
Project Updates
Guantanamo
Fusion
CHRGJ – disappearances and renditions
IVP
HRW
REAL-ID and LANSA are on hold
NESRI?
General – how’s the research going? Fun? Frustrating? Can we help? Think about setting an intra-group deadline for some kind of final product if you haven’t already.
Op-eds
Direct Action
Logo Competition