Changing the Face of Human Rights: Conference Programme

09.00 - 09.30          

Registration

09.30 - 09.40          

Chair's welcome - Anna Ford, journalist and former newsreader

09.40 - 09.50           

BIHR opening address - Ceri Goddard, Acting Director, BIHR

09.50 - 10.05           

Keynote speech - Professor Monica McWilliams, Chief Commissioner for Human Rights in Northern Ireland

10.05 - 10.20          

Keynote speech - Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

10.20 - 11.00          

Panel Discussion, with: Anna Ford (Chair), Andrew Dismore MP, Professor Francesca Klug, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE and Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Professor Monica McWilliams, Trevor Phillips, Edward Adams, Head of Human Rights Division, Ministry of Justice

11.00 - 11.30         

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.45         

Workshop sessions (details)

12.45 - 13.45         

Lunch

13.45 - 14.45        

The media representation of human rights - how can it be challenged?

Panel discussion with: Anna Ford (Chair), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Journalist, and columnist for The Independent), Jeremy Dear (General Secretary, National Union of Journalists), Mark Easton (Home Editor, BBC News), Professor Roy Greenslade (Professor of Journalism at City University London, and former editor of the Daily Mirror), Kevin Maguire (Associate Editor, Daily Mirror), Bob Satchwell (Executive Director, Society of Editors), Clare Short MP (Independent MP and former Secretary of State for International Development)

14.45 - 15.00        

Coffee break

15.00 - 16.15        

Workshop sessions

16.15 - 16.45        

Keynote speech - Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Secretary of State for Justice

16.45 - 17.00        

Close

17.15-17.45          

Optional: delegates are warmly invited by the British Library to join a short tour of their exhibition, Taking Liberties: the struggle for Britain's Freedoms and Rights.

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