The celebration will be given in English More information at: www.adh-geneva.ch [email protected] THE ACADEMY LECTURE SERIES Auditoire Jacques Freymond The Permanent Mission of Switzerland Rue de Lausanne 132, Geneva The Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Under the auspices of the Swiss Chair of Human Rights are pleased to invite you to the celebration of the Human Rights Day Roundtable on Protecting Human Rights through Transitional Justice Mechanisms Friday, 10 December 2010 – 6.30 p.m. Auditoire Jacques Freymond (AJF - The Graduate Institute) Rue de Lausanne 132, Geneva www.adh-geneva.ch The Academy Lecture Series treats multiple aspects of international law in armed conflict. Each lecture will form a chapter in a future Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012 HUMAN RIGHTS DAY Protecting Human Rights through Transitional Justice Mechanisms INTRODUCTION BY Claude Wild Ambassador and Head of the Political Division IV - Human Security of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) WITH A PANEL COMPOSED BY Transitional Justice: a Global Picture Nicolas Michel Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva and at the Graduate Institute, President of the Board of the Academy Unspeakable Truths Priscilla B. Hayner Co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Another Kind of Justice: Transitional Justice as Recognition Frank Haldemann Lecturer at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and research fellow at the University of Zurich OHCHR Acting in the Field of Transitional Justice Mona Rishmawi Chief of the Rule of Law, Equality and Non-Discrimination Branch, Research and Right to Development Division, Office of the High Commissioner For Human Rights CHAIRED BY Eibe Riedel Swiss Chair of Human Rights and Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights .