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SUMMARY:CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin\, Human Rights Watch
  - Clive Baldwin\, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch
DTSTART:20190306T170000Z
DTEND:20190306T183000Z
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CONTACT:cm2007@cam.ac.uk
DESCRIPTION:The Centre of Governance and Human Rights is delighted to host
  Clive Baldwin\, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch\, as part of t
 he CGHR Practitioner Series. All are welcome to attend. The talk and Q&A w
 ill be followed by drinks with the speaker.\n\n*Clive Baldwin* works as Se
 nior Legal Advisor for the legal and policy office at Human Rights Watch\,
  where he has been working on issues of international law since 2007. His 
 areas of focus include the Middle East\, north and west Africa and discrim
 ination law.\n\nPrior to joining Human Rights Watch\, Clive Baldwin was a 
 practicing lawyer in London for the human rights law firm\, Bindman and Pa
 rtners\, and also worked on European human rights litigation at the AIRE C
 entre. He subsequently worked for the OSCE Mission in Kosovo\, and later s
 erved as Head of Advocacy for Minority Rights Group International. While a
 t Minority Rights Group\, he implemented the organisation’s first global
  litigation program\, which brought cases to international legal bodies on
  behalf of the rights of minorities around the world. \n\nOne of the cases
  he litigated and won included the Endorois Community v Kenya\, the first
  indigenous land rights case at the African Commission on Human and People
 s Rights. In Finci v Bosnia-Hercegovina\, he successfully challenged the 
 Bosnian constitution’s exclusion of Jews from the presidency and upper h
 ouse of parliament in the first such ruling of the European Court of Human
  Rights. \n\nMost recently\, Clive Baldwin helped Human Rights Watch initi
 ate a case with two other organisations against Libya at the African Commi
 ssion on Human and Peoples’ Rights based on allegations that numerous hu
 man rights violations had occurred. His efforts resulted in the first ruli
 ng against a state by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.\n\
 nClive Baldwin received a bachelor degree in international history and pol
 itics from the University of Leeds\, a master in international relations f
 rom the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and studied law at C
 ity University\, London. \n\n*About the CGHR Practitioner Series*: For tho
 se hoping to pursue a career in the ‘Third Sector’\, especially amidst
  a broad range of organisations and agencies whose mandates can be loosely
  collected under the umbrella headings of ‘Human Rights and Social Justi
 ce’\, ‘Conflict and Security’ or ‘Development and Humanitarian Aid
 \,’ the terrain can be difficult to navigate. A sound academic training\
 , the kind provided by Cambridge University\, is important but certainly n
 ot enough to prepare students for the transition into working in this sect
 or. Through a mixture of substantive discussion\, personal reflection and 
 practical advice\, the CGHR Practitioner Series brings together high‐lev
 el experts working in these fields and creates a forum in which students a
 nd researchers can listen and ask questions about what this work actually 
 involves\, seek out reflections from experience on the dilemmas and challe
 nges faced\, and probe the skill set and experience needed to forge a care
 er in these fields.
LOCATION: Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road\
 , Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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