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Semi-Annual
Meeting - January 26-27, 2009
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Plenary
Topic: Defending Human Rights
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights confirms that
everyone has the right to promote human rights. Human Rights defenders
are increasingly finding themselves subjected to persecution from
governments and non-state actors. Governments tactics to undermine
the work of human rights defenders include interference, sabotage
and overt criminalization of advocacy and dissent. Non-state actors
invoke legal mechanisms and use violence. This plenary session discusses
these trends and challenges that human rights defenders face, and
explores possible responses that NGOs, supportive governments and
funders may make.
Agenda
at a Glance
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Monday
– January 26, 2009
9:00-9:45am
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Breakfast
& Welcome
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9:45-11:45pm
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Opening
Plenary Session:
Defending
Human Rights
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11:45-1:00pm
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Networking
Lunch
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1:00-2:30pm
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Concurrent
member-sponsored sessions & working group meetings
•
Are
Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Respected in Environmental
Grantmaking?
•
Sexual
Rights Working Group
•
Can
We Prevent Genocide?
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2:30-2:45pm
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Break
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2:45-3:45
pm |
IHRFG
Looking Forward: A Special Strategy Session of the
International
Human Rights Funders Group
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3:45-4:00pm
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Break
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4:00-5:30pm
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Concurrent
member-sponsored sessions & working group meetings
•
Advancing
Human Rights with Local Policymakers – Opportunities and Challenges
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Human
Rights and the Environment Working Group
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International
Site Visits: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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5:30-6:00pm
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Pre-Dinner
Break
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6:00-7:00pm
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Networking
Cocktail Reception
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7:00-9:00pm
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Dinner
with Christopher
Edley, Jr., Dean of UC-Berkeley Law
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Tuesday
– January 27, 2009
8:30-
9:00am |
Breakfast
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9:00-10:30am
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Concurrent
member-sponsored sessions & working group meetings
•
Contradictory
or Complementary? -- Voluntary Principles and Enforceable
Mechanisms on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses
•
Funding
for Fundamental Change: Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
Fight for Human Rights
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10:30-10:45am
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Break
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| 10:45-12:15pm
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Concurrent
member-sponsored sessions & Working Groups
•
The Individual
or the Collective: Which Way to Human Rights?
•
US Human
Rights Working Group
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Human Rights:
Can We Still Afford Them?
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| 12:15-1:15pm
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Lunch
… and The Funders’ Soapbox! |
1:15
-3:15 pm
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Closing
Plenary Session:
Using
Sexual Rights to Strengthen the
Human
Rights Movement |
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Meeting
Adjourns 3:15 p.m. |
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Meeting
Costs
Daily
Meal Fees: A daily meal fee of US $100 (per day) is
required to offset catering costs. This covers breakfast, lunch,
and refreshments, and you can register to attend both Monday and Tuesday,
or either single day only. The catering staff is committed to using
local, seasonal, sustainable, and (whenever possible) organic food
ingredients.
Networking
Cocktail Reception Fee: US $30
Dinner
Fee: US $80
Federal
Policy Briefing - March 18-19, 2009
Washington,
DC
Co-sponsored
by the Peace and Security Funders Group
(formerly
"Human Rights on the Hill")
Explore
key emerging human rights initiatives on Capitol Hill in the context
of the nation’s newly-elected executive and legislative body. Face-to-face
meetings with members of Congress, senior congressional staff and
local practitioners will highlight pressing issues, congressional
mechanisms for advancing human rights, and new openings and strategies
for promoting human rights in the US.
Location:
Reserve Officers Association (Wednesday) &
TBA (Thursday)
Semi-Annual
Meeting - July 21-22, 2008
New
York University School of Law
Human
Rights and Climate Change
Global
climate change holds dramatic implications for human rights -- from
the prospect of millions of "climate refugees" fleeing low-lying
or changed areas, to rapid disease spread, to ecological disruption
-- all likely to have a vastly disproportionate impact on the world's
poorest and most marginalized populations.
Agenda
at a Glance
(Click
here for a more detailed Agenda)
Monday
– July 21
| 9:00-
9:30am |
Breakfast
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| 9:30-10:00am
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Welcome
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| 10:00-12:00pm
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Opening
Plenary: Human Rights and Climate Change |
| 12:00-
1:30pm |
Networking Lunch and Discussion Groups |
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1:30- 3:00pm |
Concurrent
sessions:
- Health
Emergencies: Are Human Rights Funders Prepared?
- Guantanamo
& Beyond: Detention of Terror Suspects
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3:00-
3:15pm |
Break
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| 3:15-
4:45pm |
Concurrent
sessions:
- Accountability
Abroad: Southern NGOs and their Governments’
International Human Rights Policies
- Meeting
of the US Human Rights Working Group
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| 4:45-
5:15pm |
Pre-Evening Events Break |
| 5:15-
6:15pm |
Cocktail
Networking Reception |
| 6:15-
8:00pm |
Dinner
with IHRFG (speakers TBA) |
Tuesday
– July 22
| 8:15-
9:00am |
Breakfast
& IHRFG Membership Meeting |
| 9:00-10:30am
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Concurrent
sessions:
- Are Justice
Mechanisms Doing Enough for Human Rights?
- Human
Rights and the 2008 US Elections
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| 10:30-10:45am
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Break
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| 10:45-12:15pm
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Concurrent
sessions:
- Learning
from the Inside: Evaluating human rights advocacy
- Giving
the Environment a Human (Rights) Face
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| 12:15-
1:15pm |
Lunch…and
The Funders’ Soapbox! |
|
1:15 - 3:15pm |
Closing
Plenary: The Human Rights Framework - Is it always the
most strategic? |
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Geneva
- The United Nations human rights system
March
16-19, 2008
The
Geneva trip will offer funders a unique hands-on experience to learn
about the United Nations human rights system and the opportunities and
challenges for human rights work in Geneva. During the trip funders
will:
- Attend
meetings of the Human Rights Council;
- Network
with representatives key NGOs and UN agencies in Geneva;
- Share
discussions on specific human rights issues, how the UN human rights
system and other relevant actors address these issues and how they
interact; and
- Meet
with colleague funders to discuss the impact (or not) that the UN
system has within their grantmaking portfolios.
For
the full agenda, click here.
Generously
sponsored by:
 
Registration:
Due
to the overwhelming response, we are no longer accepting registrations
as the event is booked to capacity. We hope you can join us at the
next IHRFG event.
Semi-Annual
Meeting - January 28-29, 2008
Hotel
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(formerly
Crowne Plaza Union Square)
San
Francisco, CA
Human
Rights and Natural Resources
The
ability to exercise human rights depends in part on the availability
of finite resources. As privatization of natural resources increases,
questions of ownership and access have become crucial. Strategies for
economic development clash with human rights values. The failure of
governments to provide access to land and natural resources often leads
to war, migration, poverty and sickness. The denial of access to land
and natural resources almost always disproportionately affects women
and indigenous communities.
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Agenda
at a Glance
Monday
– January 28
| 9:00-
9:30am |
Breakfast
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| 9:30-10:00am
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Welcome
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| 10:00-12:00pm
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Opening
Plenary: Human Rights and Natural Resources |
| 12:00-
1:30pm |
Lunch and Discussion Groups |
1:30- 3:00pm |
Concurrent
member-sponsored sessions
- Communicating Human Rights:
New Opinion Research and Effective Messaging
- Women's Property Rights: Advancing
Development Through Human Rights
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3:00-
3:15pm |
Break
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| 3:15-
5:00pm |
Membership
Meeting |
| 5:00-
5:30pm |
Screening
of The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard |
| 5:30-
6:30pm |
Pre-Evening
Events Break |
| 6:30-
9:00pm |
Dinner
event - Screening of clips from
War Dance and remarks from Executive Producer, Susan Maclaury |
Tuesday
– January 29
| 8:30-
9:00am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:30am
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Working
Groups |
| 10:30-10:45am
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Break
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| 10:45-12:15pm
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Concurrent
member-sponsored sessions
- Population,
Justice and the Environmental Challenge
- Beating
Rights into Plowshares: Guaranteeing Food for All
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| 12:15-
1:15pm |
Lunch…and
The Funders’ Soapbox! |
|
1:15 - 2:45pm |
Concurrent
member-sponsored sessions
- In Name Only: The Right to Organize
in the US
- The Hurdle of Donor Fatigue:
The Need to Fund Hotspots
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2:45- 3:00pm |
Break
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3:00- 4:30pm |
Closing
plenary discussion |
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