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)
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 |