End of the War on Terror? Protecting Human Rights While Countering Terrorism Under the Obama Administration, Iowa City, Iowa, December 5, 2008

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Title	End of the War on Terror? Protecting Human Rights While Countering Terrorism Under the Obama Administration, Iowa City, Iowa, December 5, 2008
Statement of Responsibility	speaker: Jamil Dakwar; hosted by: Peter Hansen, Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Venue	Rockwood Fellowship Hall, Congregational Church, 30 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, Iowa
Publisher	Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Broadcasting Company	Community Television Service (Iowa City, Iowa)
Date Original	2008-12-05
Description	Jamil Dakwar is the Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program. He has more than 10 years of human rights litigation and advocacy experience in the U.S. and abroad. He is leading the ACLU human rights advocacy before the U.N. Human Rights Council and treaty bodies which regularly examine U.S. compliance with rati_ed human rights treaties. He is one of a team of ACLU lawyers litigating Ali v. Rumsfeld, a suit challenging U.S. interrogation and detention practices in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dakwar is also the co-chair of the American Constitution Society's Working Group on International Law and the Constitution, which focuses on the relationship between international law and the Constitution, and the implications of this relationship for human rights. Prior to joining the ACLU, Dakwar worked at Human Rights Watch, where he conducted research and published reports on issues of torture and detention in Egypt, Morocco and Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories. Before coming to the United States, Dakwar was a senior attorney with Adalah, one of the most prominent human rights groups in Israel focusing on Arab Palestinian citizens. At Adalah, Dakwar _led and argued dozens of human rights cases before the Israeli Supreme Court, and advocated before international bodies. Dakwar received several human rights and public interest fellowships including the Furman International Human Rights Fellowship, NYU Law School Public Service Law Fellowship and Washington College of Law - NIF Law Fellowship. Dakwar received his law degree from Tel-Aviv University and LL.M. from New York University Law School.
Personal Name Subject	Dakwar, Jamil Hansen, Peter
Geographic Subject	Afghanistan Iraq Egypt Morocco Israel Palestine
Chronological Subject	2000-2010
Type (DCMIType)	Moving image
Type (AAT)	Speeches
Type (IMT)	x-flv
Digital Collection	Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Presentations
Contributing Institution	Iowa City Foreign Relations Council
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council: http://international.uiowa.edu/outreach/community/icfrc/contact.asp
Digitization Specifications	DVD .vob format converted to .flv video for display
Duration	20:46
Date Digital	2009-06-09
File Name	20081205.flv

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