Conference of the

EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

20-21 October 2005, European Parliament, Brussels

 

Dear Friend,

 

Below is a draft programme for our Conference which meets in Brussels in a few weeks’ time. It begins at 11am on Thursday 20 October in Room ASP-1G3 (first floor, Altiero Spinelli Building area G, room 3), and continues until lunchtime on Friday 21 October.

 

In order to enter the European Parliament, please come to the entrance to the Altiero Spinelli building of the Parliament in rue Wiertz (map attached), which is a continuation of rue Remorqueur, off the main rue Belliard. The entrance to the Altiero Spinelli building is on the right. The Maalbeek and the Schuman Metro stations are closest to the Parliament. Both are some minutes’ walk away from it. Please try to allow some time for collecting your credential, which will be available at the entrance, and passing through the Parliament’s security checks.

 

As you will see from the draft programme, it is proposed that three workshops convene from 3pm to 6pm on Thursday 20 October. Any continuing work arising from these workshops may be done on Friday morning. In addition, there will be two new workshops that will run from 9 to 10.45 on Friday morning. Please consider in which workshops you may wish to intervene. As time in plenary sessions is strictly limited, most interventions will need to be made in the workshops.

 

Background papers for some workshops are already available here.

 

We look forward to seeing you in Brussels. Meanwhile, your comments and advice about the Conference are most welcome.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

 

Michael Barratt Brown         Ken Coates              Tony Simpson

 

Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

 

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European Network for Peace and Human Rights

European Parliament, rue Wiertz, Brussels

20/21 October 2005

 

DRAFT PROGRAMME

Thursday 20 October 2005

 

Opening plenary

1100 to 12.30 hours

Room ASP-1G3 (first floor, Altiero Spinelli Building area G, room 3)

With interpretation 

 

Chairpersons

Michael Barratt Brown, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

Esko Seppanen MEP

 

Workshop introductions

Ayse Berktay, World Tribunal on Iraq

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch

Regina Hagen, International Network of Engineers and Scientists

 against Proliferation

 Joseph Gerson, American Friends Service Committee

Vijay Mehta, Action for UN Renewal

 

plus

Phil Shiner of Peacerights and Public Interest Lawyers on
Iraq: The illegality of preventive attack and unilateral force

 

Senator Pierre Galand on Palestine

   

 

Workshops

1530 to 1830 hours (rooms to be advised)

Interpretation as above for largest workshop in ASP-1G3

interpretation in English and French for two other rooms

 

1. The war on Iraq 

Animator: Ayse Hacimirzaoglu, World Tribunal on Iraq

 

2. The crisis in civil liberties and human rights

Animator:  Tony Bunyan, Statewatch

 

3. Making Europe nuclear-weapons-free

Chairperson: Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Committee

Animator: Regina Hagen, International Network of Engineers and Scientists against Proliferation (INESAP)

 

 

Friday 21 October

 0900 to 1045 workshops

Interpretation only in room ASP-1G3

 

4. US military bases around the world

Animator: Joseph Gerson, American Friends’ Service Committee

 

We have also been asked to announce

a special workshop session on

 The role of the United Nations

 in strengthening international peace and security

Chairperson: Martina Weitsch, Quaker Council for European Affairs  

Animator: Vijay Mehta, Action for UN Renewal

 

Closing plenary

1100 to 1230 hours

 room ASP-1G3  with interpretation

Chairpersons

 Michael Barratt Brown, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

Caroline Lucas MEP

 

Reports from workshops

 

 

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