ISS Seminar, Pretoria: Prospects for Democracy and Justice in the Great Lakes Region

Date: 2010-11-24

Venue: Event Venue: ISS Conference Room, Block C, Brooklyn Court, 361 Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, (Parking in Brooklyn Mall and ABSA Court)

RSVP: Khunjulwa Peter
Tel:  012 346 9500
012 460 0997/ 086 508 1660
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Presented by the Peace Missions Programme

Human Rights Watch’s two senior researchers on the Great Lakes region Anneke van Woudenberg (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Carina Tertsakian (Rwanda and Burundi) will address some of the landmark events in terms of human rights in 2010.   In a year that has seen increased political repression in the run-up to elections in Burundi and Rwanda, the publication of the controversial UN mapping report and continuing atrocities against civilians in Congo, what are the prospects for democracy and justice in the Great Lakes region?

Speakers:

Anneke van Woudenberg, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch (DRC)

Carina Tertsakian, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch (Burundi and Rwanda)

Participants are free to use the information presented, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed without his/her express permission.