Please join Human Rights First for a discussion on the current situation in Bahrain four years after the February 14th revolution. The country remains polarized with little prospect of an end to its political unrest. Human Rights First will release a blueprint outlining measures the U.S. can implement, including how to address issues of corruption and security force reform in the country, to help bring stability to Bahrain.
Speakers:
The Honorable Jim McGovern
U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’ 2nd Congressional District
Co-chair, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
Staci Strobl
Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and the 2009 winner of the British Journal of Criminology's Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for her work on the criminalization of domestic workers in Bahrain. She has published articles on sectarian history and politics and their effect on policing in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in the peer-review journals Policing & Society and the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, among other outlets. Her areas of specialization include policing in the Arabian Gulf and Eastern Europe.
Mohammed al Tajer
Bahraini Human Rights Lawyer
Brian Dooley
Director, Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights First
Cannon 441