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In 2021, the worldwide group will as soon as once more interact with Iran over the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) nuclear program and different regional and world points. Re-engagement is not going to obscure considerations about IRI’s dismal human rights report, together with the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, the execution of people for exercising political and civil liberties, and the persecution of marginalized minority teams. There are considerations about this. With no signal of any enchancment in human rights in Iran, there may be an pressing world must rethink the best way perpetrators of gross human rights violations in Iran are held accountable.
To shut the accountability hole in Iran and past, the Atlantic Council launched the Strategic Litigation Project to discover how governments and practitioners can use authorized instruments to additional advance human rights and clear governments around the globe. We have injected new concepts into how it may be utilized.
Please be a part of us on Tuesday, December fifteenth from 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET for the launch of the debut report of the Strategic Litigation Project, “Closing the Global Accountability Gap for Human Rights Violators within the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Please be a part of us. “Litigation Strategy,” by Resident Senior Fellow Gisou Nia. The report contains suggestions for brand new legal guidelines, amendments to current legal guidelines, and the creation of enforcement mechanisms to help IRI’s efforts to fight impunity for human rights violations and atrocity crimes.
This panel will give attention to a dialogue of those instruments and key takeaways from U.S., Canadian, and European civil litigation that may be utilized to litigation relating to human rights violations in Iran.
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William Wexler
Rafik Hariri Director of the Middle East and Middle East Program Center
atlantic council
moderator
dialog with
Amanda Gahlemani
worldwide human rights lawyer
Canadian Partnership for International Justice
scott gilmore
of a lawyer. Part-time professor
Hausfeld LLP, Washington, DC. georgetown regulation
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