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IHRFG events provide a forum for grantmakers to talk shop, network, collaborate and learn together with peers, activists, scholars and policy-makers on critical human rights issues of the day.

 

Semi-Annual Summer Conference

July 13-14, 2009

at the

New York University School of Law

 

Human Rights and the Global Economic Crisis


This summer's plenary theme tackles human rights and the global economic crisis. Is the human rights framework still relevant?  How can it be applied to address current challenges?  Is this an opportunity to envision a whole new economic paradigm?

As always, this conference will mix in-depth examination of multiple perspectives on human rights issues alongside workshops on effective approaches to human rights grantmaking.

REGISTER ONLINE @

www.regonline.com/IHRFG-JULY2009

Registration Deadline: Monday, July 6, 2009

Download full agenda now (click here)!

 

Agenda at-a-glance

 

Sunday – July 12, 2009

IHRFG Director, Michael Hirschhorn, will host an informal dinner in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (6:30-9:00pm). All conference panelists and registrants are invited to attend.  See online registration for more details...

Monday – July 13, 2009

9:00-9:30am

Breakfast & Welcome

10:00-12:30pm

Opening Plenary

Human Rights: Can We Still Afford Them?

  (includes small group discussions)

12:30-2:00pm

Networking Lunch with discussion tables and a screening of the new film, The Reckoning with the filmmakers Pamela Yates & Paco de Onis

 

2:00-3:30pm

Concurrent Sessions:

  Funding Human Rights in Repressive Environments: The Arab Region as Case Study

•  Get Off Your Assets! Working Group Meeting

  If it Feels Right, Can it Be Wrong?: Working Across Diverse Constituencies to Promote a New Domestic Human Rights Agenda

 

3:30-3:45pm

Break

3:45-5:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions:

  Exhausted, Exiled, or Dead: Can Funders Better Sustain Human Rights Activism?

•  US Human Rights Working Group Meeting

  Getting Past the Barbed Wireless: Protecting Speech in an Increasingly Censored Web

 

5:15-5:30pm

Pre-Evening Events Break

5:30-6:30pm

Networking Cocktail Reception

6:30-9:00pm

July Semi-Annual Conference Dinner (speaker to be announced)

 


Tuesday – July 14, 2009

8:15-9:00am

Breakfast & IHRFG Membership Meeting

9:00-10:30am

Concurrent Sessions:

  From New Orleans to the Arctic: Human Rights as THE Framework to Solve the Climate Crisis

  Analyzing the Fiscal Health of Grantees and Grantseekers

10:30-10:45am

Break

10:45-12:15pm

Concurrent Sessions:

  How a Human Rights Link is Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain

  Joining Forces: A Skills Building Workshop in Collaborative Funding (Sexual Rights Working Group Meeting)

  Military Justice: Promoting Human Rights and Accountability in War

 

12:15-1:45pm

Networking Lunch II (question-focused table discussions), including:

•  Human Rights & the Environment Working Group Meeting

 

1:45-3:45 pm

Closing Plenary:

Human Rights and International Financial Insitutions

July 2009 Conference Registration

REGISTER ONLINE @

www.regonline.com/IHRFG-JULY2009

Deadline for registration:

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Download full agenda now (click here)!

Meeting Costs

Daily Meal Fees:  A daily meal fee of US $65 (per day) is required to offset catering costs.  This covers breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. You can register to attend both Monday and Tuesday, or either single day only.

Networking Reception Fee: US $30

Dinner Meal Fee: US $50

 

 

2009 Federal Policy Briefing

Advancing Peace, Security & Human Rights

in an Era of Change

March 18-19, 2009

Capitol Hill - Washington, DC

Co-sponsored by the

International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG)

    and the

Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)

 

OVERVIEW

 

President Obama and the new Congress have a mandate for change, reflecting the public’s urgency for major progress on issues related to peace, security and human rights at home and around the globe.  This two-day meeting in Washington , DC -- co-sponsored by the Peace and Security Funders Group and the International Human Rights Funders Group -- will provide grantmakers with an opportunity to gain behind-the-scenes perspectives from policymakers, issue experts, on-the-ground activists and senior leaders in philanthropy.  Participants will discuss avenues for action and strategic collaboration as funders to seize opportunities presented by the post-election environment.

 

Advancing Peace, Security and Human Rights in an Era of Change will feature Administration officials who will provide insider views on what to expect in the months to come; offer insights into critical issues and anticipated challenges; and urge action on winning strategies that grantmakers can help support. Leading Members of Congress will discuss legislative priorities, impressions of the political environment and opportunities for advancing peace, security and human rights issues.

 

Both days of this Federal Policy Briefing will be held on Capitol Hill. We will meet on Wednesday, March 18th at the Reserve Officers Association at First and Constitution, and on Thursday March 19th in a room in the Capitol (TBA).  A reception with representatives of the NGO community will be held at Mott House the evening of the 18th.

 

AGENDA and FURTHER INFORMATION

Click here for further information, including the draft agenda.

 

REGISTRATION

Registration is required by Wednesday, March 11, 2009

 

IHRFG's Semi-Annual Meeting - January 26-27, 2009

Hotel 480

480 Sutter Street

San Francisco, CA

 

Overview

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A DETAILED AGENDA.

The current times present unprecedented challenges to the promise of human rights on every front. At the same time, many feel we are entering a period of tremendous opportunity . IHRFG's January conference will provide a forum for grantmakers to engage in dialogue with peers, grassroots practitioners and policy-shapers on some of the critical questions of our day, including:

 

    •  How do we defend human rights, including attempts by governments to criminalize the defense of rights? (opening plenary)
 
    •  How can we best strategize our grantmaking in tough economic times? (member-sponsored session)
 
    •  What’s ahead for human rights in the Obama administration, and how can human rights be advanced among local policymakers? (Monday dinner and member-sponsored session)
 
    •  Can we stop genocide? (member-sponsored session)
 
    •  How can sexual rights and notions of identity help strengthen a human rights framework, from coalition-building efforts in the Middle East to Central Asia to Proposition 8 in California? (closing plenary)

 

As always, we’ll probe the implications of each of these questions for grantmakers, exploring potential avenues for collaboration and action.



Agenda at a Glance

Monday – January 26, 2009

9:00-9:45am

Breakfast & Welcome

9:45-11:45pm

Opening Plenary Session: DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights confirms that everyone has the right to promote human rights. Yet human rights defenders are increasingly finding themselves subjected to persecution from governments and non-state actors. Government 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 will discuss these trends and the challenges that human rights defenders face, and explore possible responses by NGOs, supportive governments and funders.

11:45-1:00pm

Networking Lunch

1:00-2:30pm

Concurrent member-sponsored sessions & working group meetings

•  Are Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Respected in Environmental Grantmaking?

•  Sexual Rights Working Group

•  Can We Prevent Genocide?

2:30-2:45pm

Break

2:45-3:45 pm

 IHRFG Looking Forward: A Special Strategy Session of the

 International Human Rights Funders Group

3:45-4:00pm

Break

4:00-5:30pm

Concurrent member-sponsored sessions & working group meetings

•  Advancing Human Rights with Local Policymakers – Opportunities and Challenges

•  Human Rights and the Environment Working Group

•  International Site Visits: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

5:30-6:00pm

Pre-Dinner Break

6:00-7:00pm

Networking Cocktail Reception

7:00-9:00pm

Prospects for Human Rights in the Obama Adminstration

a dinner with Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean of UC-Berkeley Law

 

 

Tuesday – January 27, 2009

8:30- 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00-10:30am

Concurrent member-sponsored sessions & working group meetings

•  Contradictory or Complementary? -- Voluntary Principles and Enforceable Mechanisms on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses

 

•  The Movement for Fundamental Change: Formerly Incarcerated People Fight for Human Rights

10:30-10:45am

Break

10:45-12:15pm

Concurrent member-sponsored sessions & Working Groups

•  The Individual or the Collective: Which Way to Human Rights?

•  US Human Rights Working Group

•  Reading between the Read Lines: Strategizing Grantmaking in Tough Times

12:15-1:15pm

Lunch … and The Funders’ Soapbox!

1:15 -3:15 pm

Closing Plenary Session:

Sexual Rights, Identity, and Strengthening the

Human Rights Movement

   

  3:15 p.m.

***Meeting Adjourns***

 

Click here to download a

current DETAILED AGENDA.

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. 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

 

 

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