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IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024

15 Sep - 20 Sep 2024

PALACIO DE CANAL 2, LEVEL E1

Session information

Financial and personal costs of human rights litigation: how to go the distance?

Thursday 19 September (1430 - 1545)

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PALACIO DE CANAL 2, LEVEL E1

Committee(s)

Human Rights Law Committee (Lead)

Description

This session will first delve into the question of how human rights activities can obtain sufficient resources to maintain prolonged litigation in a world of finite resources. The session will then turn to consider the very real physical and psychological costs of acting in such cases (given traumatic subject matter), risks to security and limited prospects of implementation.

Session / Workshop Chair(s)

Tiffani Brownley-Meijer American Red Cross, Arlington, Virginia, USA; Human Rights Law Committee, North and Latin American Regional Forum Liaison Officer
Shirley Pouget DLA Piper, Paris, France; Co-Chair, Human Rights Law Committee

Speakers

Shiva Amiri Amiri Law Firm P C, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Website Officer, Human Rights Law Committee
John Balouziyeh United Nations, Erbil, Iraq; Treasurer, Human Rights Law Committee
Dr Felicity Gerry KC Libertas Chambers UK & Crockett Chambers Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Asia Pacific Regional Forum Liaison Officer, Criminal Law Committee
Steven Gray Independent Adviser, London, England
Jonathan Hafetz Seton Hall Law School, Newark, New Jersey, USA; Membership Officer, Human Rights Law Committee

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