The Local Human Rights Lawyering Project at the Washington College of Law of American University will be holding a webinar entitled Webinar on Human Rights & Immigrants' Rights for Legal Aid Attorneys, on Friday, August 23, 2013 from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Eastern.

The Local Human Rights Lawyering Project holds regular webinars to introduce legal aid attorneys to a written handbook developed by the Center for Numan Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University entitled, Human Rights in the U.S.: A Handbook for Legal Aid Attorneys.

This handbook aims to get practical and useable human rights information into the hands legal aid attorneys interested in integrating human rights into their everyday work. The August 2013 webinar will focus on the immigration sections of the Handbook.

Lynsay Gott, Associate Attorney with WMR Immigration Law Group and author of the immigration sections of the Handbook, will lead the webinar and focus on how to formulate human rights arguments for U.S. courts and policymakers focusing on representation of immigrants.

The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law developed the Local Human Rights Lawyering Project to promote human rights at the local level right here in the U.S. The Project is the first of its kind, working to create a cadre of experienced legal aid attorneys and public defenders who will use the human rights framework to advocate for increased civil liberties and expanded protections for the most vulnerable persons in the U.S.–among them, the poor, racial minorities, young people, the elderly and immigrants.

This online training is free to all legal aid attorneys in the United States. Please join the webinar to learn about human rights issues related to immigration.

For questions about this webinar, please contact Lauren E. Bartlett at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016, Telephone: 202-895-45656, Fax: 202-274-0783, bartlett@wcl.american.edu.
 

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