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Date:
October 22, 2024
Start:
5:00pm
End:
6:30pm
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Location:
TNH 2.114 (Francis Auditorium)
Event type:
Panel Discussion / Speaker Series
For more info:
carolinehahn@austin.utexas.edu
On the web:
https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/events/un-consultation-on-xenophobia-migration-and-human-rights-in-the-southwest-border-region/

This public panel discussion on xenophobia at the U.S.-Mexico border will feature United Nations experts, scholars, organizers, and policymakers in dialogue with the community.

Panelists:

Dr. Pablo Ceriani Cernadas, UN Committee on Migrant Workers

Dr. Ibrahima Guissé, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Shoba Sivaprasad-Wadhia, Director of the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Professor Rebecca Sharpless, Author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, University of Miami School of Law

Claudia Muñoz, Community organizer, Organiza Texas

The panel will follow a day-long expert consultation on the southwest border that will contribute to an initiative of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers to address xenophobia and human rights violations against migrants. If you are a UT faculty member or student and are interested in observing the consultation, please fill out the following form: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6u81WgpPAoSv8ea

This event is hosted by the Immigration Clinic and Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at Texas Law, with support from the Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice, Texas Global, Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis, Latin American Initiative at Texas Law, Latino Studies, William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, Center for Asian American Studies, John L. Warfield Center for African & African Diaspora Studies, and Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS).

Specific audiences:
  • Texas Law students
  • Prospective students
  • Texas Law alumni
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • General public
Sponsored by:
  • Immigration Clinic
  • William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law

If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the sponsor listed above or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.