Human Rights in Practice: Families and National Security
October 25, 2021 • 12:30 PM • Law School 4047
While much attention has been paid to the human rights fallout of national security measures post-9/11, one area that is consistently overlooked is the impact of such measures on the family-both as a unit and for individual family members. This is the case with administrative and criminal measures that impact the family unit or members. Join Fatima Ahdash, Goldsmiths, University of London; Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota; & Jayne Huckerby, Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic; to discuss the range of ways in which national security policies both mobilize and impact families across the globe and analyzing the role various legal and other institutions in facilitating these adverse impacts. Organized by the Center for International & Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. Co-sponsors: Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute; Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; Human Rights Law Society; & International Law Society. The event is free and open to all; no registration required. Grab-and-go lunch available after program. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3kEZPdS. For more information, please contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu or visit https://bit.ly/3kCOQ4V
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Lecturer in Law,
Goldsmiths, University of London
University Regents Professor, University of
Minnesota, and Special Rapporteur on the
promotion and protection of human rights
and fundamental freedoms, OHCHR
Clinical Professor of Law & Director,
Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic
Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) &
Supervising Attorney, Duke Law
International Human Rights Clinic
While much attention has been paid to the human rights fallout of national security measures post-9/11, one area that is consistently overlooked is the impact of such measures on the family—both as a unit and for individual family members. This is the case with administrative and criminal measures that impact the family unit or members (e.g., counter-terrorism financing prosecutions of relatives of terrorism suspects). It is also true of preventive approaches that mobilize a range of care professionals (e.g., social workers) to provide governments with unprecedented access to, and control of, families. And a range of national security measures that unduly target women on the basis of their familial relationships (e.g., training mothers in anti-radicalization tactics) or undermine gender equality, also necessarily adversely impact the family and its members. Join this panel in discussing the range of ways in which national security policies both mobilize and impact families across the globe and analyzing the role various legal and other institutions in facilitating these adverse impacts.
The event is organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic. Co-sponsored by the Coalition against Gendered Violence; Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute; the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; the Duke Law Center for Law, Ethics and National Security; the Human Rights Law Society; the International Law Society; the Muslim Law Students Association; the National Security Law Society; and the Women Law Students Association. The event is free and open to all. No registration is required. For more information contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.
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