Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights

Civil Liberties and

the War on Terror

Monday 28 June 2004 at 7.45 for 8 pm

Speakers

BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY QC

Chair of the British Council and of the Human Genetics Commission. She has acted in many leading human rights cases including the Guildford Four Appeal, the Brighton Bombing Trial and on behalf of battered women. Her latest book Just Law is on the state of human rights in Britain today and the changing face of British justice.

SAMAR MASHADI

Director of the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism (FAIR), which she has represented at several agencies including the Women and Equality Unit at the DTI. A graduate of University College London with a MSc in Development Economics, she has worked as a consultant in the investment banking sector in London.

STEVE CRAWSHAW

London Director of Human Rights Watch. A journalist with the Independent from 1986 to 2002, he held various positions including chief foreign correspondent, foreign news editor and senior editorial writer. His most recent book is Easier Fatherland: Germany in the Twenty-First Century.

Chair

FRANCESCA KLUG

Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE and Director of the new Human Rights Futures Project. She was one of the driving forces behind the UK's Human Rights Act and is author of Values for a Godless Age: The Story of the UK's Bill of Rights. She is a founder member of JFJHR.

Hampstead Town Hall

213 Haverstock Hill

London NW3

(near Belsize Park tube station)

Tickets: £5 (on the door)

jfjhr2003@yahoo.co.uk

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