Human Rights Law Centre
Seventh Annual Student Conference 2006
THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
At the University of Nottingham,
Law and Social Sciences Building
Saturday, 18 March 2006
Programme
09.00
Registration
Room B63
09.30
Welcome address from Professor David Harris, Co-Director of
the Human Rights Law Centre and Emeritus Professor,
University of Nottingham
Room B63
09.35
Morning Panel Session
Chaired by Prof David Harris
Room B63
Prof Nigel White, Professor of International Law, University of Sheffield
“The Obligations and Accountability of the Security Council
under Human Rights Law”
Prof Bertrand Ramcharan, Professor of International Law, University of
Lund, Former Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“The Security Council and Preventive Action to Protect Human Rights”
10.50
Coffee Break
11.20
Delegates choose between two student-led discussion groups, which will run
simultaneously:
Group 1
Responses of the UN Security Council to Human Rights Violations
Atrium
Room B1
Mohamad Badar Elewa, National University of Ireland
“Genocide at the Safe Area of Srebrenica: The Failure of the Security Council
to Protect Civilians in Contemporary Armed Conflict”
Katerina Novotna, University of Wales
“The Security Council, civil society, and human rights”
Abu Waya, University of Hull
“Reviewing The Security Council’s Approach To Humanitarian Crisis In
African Armed Conflicts In The Light Of The African Union’s Constitutive Act
2000”
Group 2
The Impact of Security Council Measures on Civilians
Room B55
Katarina Månsson, National University of Ireland
“The UN Security Council and Peace Operations – A Tool for Measuring the
Status of International Human Rights Law?”
Kara Piccirilli, University of Nottingham
“Reluctant Baby Steps Towards Enhanced Global Security: UN SCR 1325 and
the UN Security Council’s work on the protection and promotion of women’s
rights”
Sascha Werthes, University of Marburg
“UN Sanctions with a Human Face? Smart Sanctions, Human Rights, Human
Security”
12.30
Lunch
13.30
Welcome from Professor Dirk Van Zyl Smit, Professor of
Comparative and International Penal Law,
University of Nottingham
13.35
Afternoon Panel Session
Chaired by Prof Van Zyl Smit
Atrium
Room B63
Room B63
Dr. Mona Rishmawi, Legal Adviser and Head of the Rule of Law and
Democracy Unit at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR)
“The Security Council, the ICC and Human Rights”
Mr. Edward J. Flynn, Senior Human Rights Officer, UN Security Council
Counter-Terrorism Committee
“Terrorism and Human Rights at the UN Security Council”
14.50
Coffee Break
Atrium
15.20
Delegates choose between two student-led discussion groups, which will run
simultaneously:
Group 1
Room B1
The UN Security Council, International Criminal Justice and Human Rights
Jernej Letnar Cernic, University of Aberdeen
“Drawing comparisons between UN Panel of Experts in Democratic Republic
of Congo and the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur as a means
of addressing grave human rights violations”
Aurélie G. Roche, University of Nottingham
“The Security Council referral to the ICC: An analysis of its scope and its
challenges”
Michelle Staggs, London School of Economics
“Resolution 1315 and “Ensuring Lasting Peace” in Sierra Leone: An End to
Impunity or Symbolic Justice? Some Reflections on the Special Court”
Group 2
The UN Security Council, Terrorism and Human Rights
Room B55
Steven Dewulf and Didier Pacquée, University of Antwerp
“Protecting Human Rights in the War on Terror: Who is controlling the
Security Council?”
Michelle Farrell, National University of Ireland
“The Security Council, Terrorism and Human Rights”
D. Wes Rist, University of the West of England
“The Security Council, Terrorism, and Human rights”
16.30
Closing Remarks, Prof Robert McCorquodale, Professor of
International Law and Human Rights and Head of the Law
School, University of Nottingham
Room B63