Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm

Location: United Nations Church Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd Floor Plaza Room, New York, NY 10017

Registration: Click Here

Topic for the Conference: Identity, Human Rights, and United Nations

Sub Topics for Panel Discussion:

• Are Nations fulfilling their obligations towards international instruments to which they are a party?
• The impact of the UN decision on the religious minorities in France, and its global ramifications.
• Challenges & Solutions offered by the UN and beyond the UN

Panel Speakers:

• Kevin Parker, New York Senator
• Jagmeet Singh, Member of Parliament of Canada,
• Susan Herman, President of the American Civil Liberties Union
• Dr. Bobbi Nassar, Vice Chair-UN NGO Committee on Human Rights
• Elizabeth K. Cassidy, Deputy Policy Director- United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
• Julius Grey,  a renowned Montreal lawyer and McGill University professor of law
• Bani Dugal, Bani Dugal is the Principal Representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations
• Ali Alyami, Executive Director- Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
• Judith Hertz.  Vice president- Union for Reform Judaism, World Union for Progressive Judaism
• Matt Cherry, Int’l Representative, International Humanist and Ethical Union
• Jack Glaser, Associate Professor of Public Policy-University of California, Berkley
• Dr. Rahuldeep Singh Gill, Assistant Professor, California Lutheran University
• Pushpinder Saini QC, recognised by both of the main independent legal directories as a leading silk and is recognised as one of its “stars at the bar” in Chambers UK 2012
• Representation from DSGMC and SGPC

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To know about the previous Global Sikh Civil Rights Conference, please visit: www.unitedsikhs.org/globalconference