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DESCRIPTION:This year\, the Macnaughton Lectures welcome Maina Kiai\, UN Sp
 ecial Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Associa
 tion\, who will speak on democracy\, dissent and the law inside civil soci
 ety.   About the speaker  Mr. Maina Kiai is the United Nations Special Rap
 porteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. 
 He took up his functions on 1 May 2011\, for an initial period of three ye
 ars.  A lawyer trained at Nairobi and Harvard Universities\, Mr. Kiai has 
 spent the last twenty years campaigning for human rights and constitutiona
 l reform in Kenya – notably as founder and Executive Director of the unoff
 icial Kenya Human Rights Commission\, and then as Chairman of Kenya’s Nati
 onal Human Rights Commission (2003-2008)\, where he won a national reputat
 ion for his courageous and effective advocacy against official corruption\
 , in support of political reform\, and against impunity following the viol
 ence that convulsed Kenya in 2008\, causing thousands of deaths.  From Jul
 y 2010 to April 2011\, Mr. Kiai was the Executive Director of the Internat
 ional Council on Human Rights Policy\, a Geneva-based think-tank which pro
 duces research reports and briefing papers with policy recommendations. Mr
 . Kiai was also the Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme (
 1999-2001)\, and the Africa Director of the International Human Rights Law
  Group (now Global Rights\, 2001-2003). He held research fellowships at th
 e Danish Institute for Human Rights (Copenhagen)\, the Woodrow Wilson Inte
 rnational Center for Scholars (Washington)\, and the TransAfrica Forum (Wa
 shington).  Mr. Kiai has regularly been an advocate informing and educatin
 g Kenyans through various media about their human rights.  About the Macna
 ughton Lectures  Funded by endowments from the Classes of '75 and '77 on t
 he occasion of their 10th anniversaries and launched in 1994 thanks to the
  generosity of Senator Alan Aylesworth Macnaughton\,  PC OC QC (1903 –  19
 99)\, the bi-annual Alan Aylesworth Macnaughton Lecture is devoted to cont
 emporary issues of public policy. Senator Macnaughton (BA'26\, BCL'29\, LL
 D'92) was Speaker of the House of Commons\, founder and Honorary Chairman 
 of the Canadian World Wildlife Fund\, Counsel at Martineau Walker\, and a 
 member of the Faculty of Law Advisory Board.  Co-sponsored by the Aisensta
 dt Equality and Community Initiative\, and the Katharine A. Pearson Chair 
 in Civil Society and Public Policy.
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Civil Society: Democracy\, Dissent and the Law
URL:/law/channels/event/civil-society-democracy-dissen
 t-and-law-230309
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