Human Rights Today: 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

26 a 28 de Junho, 2008, Hotel Palácio Estoril

23 de Junho | Visita à NATO em Bruxelas

 26th June Thursday 

14.00       WELCOME DESK
Participants and Speakers Registrations

15.00-17.30     OPENING SESSION NATURE AND SCOPE OF RIGHTS

Welcome Address: João Carlos Espada, Director IEP-UCP, Lisbon

Speaker:
Lord Raymond Plant, King?s College and House of Lords, London

Discussants:
João Rosas, ILCH-Universidade do Minho, Braga and IEP-UCP, Lisbon
Marc Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, Director, IFDS, Washington, D.C.
Marc Shell, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Susan Shell, Boston College, Boston

17.30-18.00        Coffee-Break

18.00-20.00  HUMAN RIGHTS AND TERRORISM 

Chairmen: Nuno Vieira Matias, Admiral, IEP-UCP, Lisbon; João Salgueiro*, President, SEDES, Lisbon

José Pacheco Pereira, Columnist, Público, Lisbon 
João Marques de Almeida, Cabinet of the President of the European Commission J. M. Barroso, Brussels
Miguel Monjardino, IEP-UCP, Lisbon
Rafael Bardají, FAES, Madrid

20.30     OPENING DINNER (dark suit) with Aga Zaryan Band (Poland)

Chair of Honour: Katarzyna Skorzynska, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Lisbon

Chairs to the Book Presentation: Bridgett Wagner, Heritage   Foundation, Washington D.C.; Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, President, The Court of Auditors

Anthony O'Hear*, The Great Books, (Icon Books:2007)
João Carlos Espada, Liberdade e Responsabilidade Pessoal com prefácio de José Manuel Barroso (Principia, 2008)
Marc F. Plattner, Democracy Without Borders?: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers:2007)

27th June Friday

10.00-11.00     SPECIAL STUDENT  DEBATE: SHOULD HUMAN RIGHTS PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS?
In association with Europaeum (Leiden-Sorbonne/IEP-UCP-Oxford), Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu, National Louis University, Poland and Georgetown University

Chairman:  Paul Flather, Secretary General, Europaeum
            
Moderators: 
Eusebio Mujal-Leon, Associate Professor, Georgetown University, Washington
Henrique Burnay, IEP-UCP, Lisbon
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, Member of the Board, IFES, Oxford

11.00-11.30        Coffee-Break

11.30-12.30        Round Table - Open Discussion

Chairmen: José Manuel Fernandes, Editor, Público, Lisbon
Henrique Monteiro, Editor, Expresso

13.00-14.30 Lunch with Gunnar Hökmark, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group
Property Rights and Free Enterprise

Chairmen: Daniel Oliver, President, New Atlantic Initiative, Washington, D.C.; John O'Sullivan, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.

16.30-18.00        HUMAN RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL OR REGIONAL?

Chairmen:  Adriano Moreira, Professor Emeritus, IEP-UCP, Lisbon; Fernando Adão da Fonseca, Secretary-General, Millennium BCP, Lisbon

Mab Huang, Director Human Rights Program, Taipei
Raquel Vaz Pinto, IEP-UCP, Lisbon
Ryszard Legutko, Secretary of State in the Chancellary of the President of Poland and Professor, Jagellonian University, Krakow
Satya Arinanto, University of Indonesia

18.00-18.30        Coffee-Break

18.30-20.00       INDEX OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM
In association with Heritage Foundation

Chairmen: Diogo de Lucena, Member of Board, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; António Borges*, FCEE-UCP, Lisbon

Speaker:  Kim Holmes, Vice President for Foreign and Defense Studies, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Sponsors Panel:
Alexander Ellis, U.K. Ambassador to Lisbon
António Carrapatoso, CEO, Vodafone Portugal, Lisbon
António Capucho, Câmara Municipal de Cascais, Cascais
António Mexia*, President, EDP, Lisbon
Carlos Santos Ferreira*, President, Milleninum BCP, Lisbon
Charles Buchanan, Member of Board, FLAD, Lisbon
Katarzyna Skorzynska, Poland Ambassador to Lisbon
Luís Palha, CEO, Jerónimo Martins, Lisbon
Martim Avillez Figueiredo, SONAE SGPS
Rui Machete, President, FLAD, Lisbon
Thomas Stephenson, U.S. Ambassador to Lisbon
William Hasselberger, President, Washington Global Energy Investors, Advisor, Carlyle, Washington, D.C.

20.30  Joint Dinner with British Historical Society of Portugal, International Churchill Society of Portugal & Oxford Society of Portugal and IEP-Alumni

Chairmen: Paulo Lowndes Marques, President, British Historical Society of Portugal, Lisbon; Martim Avillez Figueiredo, IEP Alumni

Wine Tasting with Vasco Avillez, President, ViniPortugal, Lisbon

28th June Saturday   

10.00-11.30         DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
In association with Community of Democracies/ National Endowment for Democracy/ European Foundation for Democracy through Partnership/ Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

Chairmen: Marc Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy, Director, IFDS, Washington, D.C.

Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C.
Piotr Naimski, Professor, Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu, National-Louis University, Nowy Sacz
Richard Rowson, President, National Louis-University, Nowy Sacz
Roel von Meijenfeldt, Executive Director, European Foundation for Democracy through Partnership
Wen-cheng Lin, President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

11.30-12.00       Coffee-Break

12.00-13.00        THE EU AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Chairman: Luís Queiró, MEP

Speaker: Vitor Gaspar, Acting Director-General European Commission

Discussant: Bruno Maçães, ECLA, Berlin, IEP-UCP, Lisbon

13.00-14.30        Lunch with William Hasselberger, President, Washington Global Energy Investors, Advisor, Carlyle, Washington, D.C.
    
Chairman: Alejandro Chafuen, President and C.E.O., Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington, D.C.

17.00-18.00        RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE WORLD

Chairmen:  Mário Pinto, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon; Zita Seabra, MP, PSD, Lisbon

Jorge Soley, Vice-President, Fundacíon Burke, Madrid
Kishore Jayabalan, Director, Acton Institute, Rome
Leonard P. Liggio, Research Professor of Law, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia; Executive Vice-President, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Washington D.C.
Robert Royal, President, Faith and Reason Institute, Washington D.C.

18.00-18.30        Coffee-Break

18.30-19.30        Round Table ? Open Discussion

Discussants:
Esther Muznik, Vice-President of the Jewish Community of Lisbon
João Pereira Coutinho, IEP-UCP, Lisbon
Lívia Franco, IEP-UCP, Lisbon
Miguel Morgado, IEP-UCP, Lisbon

20.00      CLOSING DINNER (dark suit)
Host: Luísa Leal de Faria, Vice Rector UCP, Lisbon

Chairmen: John O'Sullivan, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
J. L. Nogueira de Brito, Editorial Board, Nova Cidadania, Lisbon

Speakers: João Cravinho*, Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Lisbon; Richard Rowson, President, Council for a Community of Democracies, Washington D.C.

Diplomat's Democracy Handbook

* Speakers to be confirmed

Mais informações:
Dra. Rita Seabra Brito
Cooredenação Executiva do XVI Encontro Internacional de Estudos Políticos
Tel.: (+351) 21 721 41 29
Fax: (+351) 21 727 18 36
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