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EVENTS
Investigating, Prosecuting, Defending, and Assessing Child Exploitation and Human
Trafficking Cases
JA NUA RY 18, 2012
On January 18, 2012, the Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights hosted Judge Virginia M.
Kendall and Mr. T. Markus Funk in a presentation and discussion of their new book Child Exploitation
and Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses. Child Exploitation and Trafficking
brings fresh thinking to a complicated area of the law. Each year, more than two million children around
the world fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation. The numbers of children sexually abused for
non-commercial purposes are even higher. Put simply, the growing, increasingly-organized epidemic of
child exploitation demands an internationally coordinated response.
Medicine and Rule of Law in Post-Earthquake Haiti
JA NUA RY 17, 2012
On January 17, 2012, Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health presented on water rights and the cholera
epidemic that has afflicted over half a million people and killed 7,000.
Forcible Displacement of the Bedouin Community in Israel
O C TO BER 21, 2011
Israeli attorneys from Project Engage representing the Bedouin Community of the Negev have traveled
to the United States to educate the legal community and political representatives about Israel's Prawer
Plan that will forcibly displace 40,000 Bedouin from their ancestral land.
The U.S. Role in Mexico's Drug War
A UGUST 30, 2011
Presentation by Laura Carlsen, the Director of Americas Program of the Center for International Policy,
based in Mexico City.
Atrocity Crimes Litigation Year-In-Review
JA NUA RY 25, 2008
Northwestern University School of Law
Chicago, Illinois
Corporate Human Rights Responsibility: Its Growing Relevance and Enforceability
O C TO BER 24 & 25, 2007
Northwestern University School of Law
Chicago, Illinois
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Symposium on Darfur and the Congo
2006
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