• Keynote Address:   "Restoring America's Credibility: The Future of Human Rights"      
              
  William F. Schulz, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA
  
  
• Workshop 1: Women and Human Rights
  This panel will discuss the evolution of the women’s human rights movement by examining The Advocates’ work on the impact of domestic violence on refugee and immigrant battered women in Minnesota.  Panelists will discuss the development of traditional and innovative human rights strategies to create system change.
  
  Panelists:
  Angela Bortel, Staff Attorney, The Advocates for Human Rights
  Alena Chaps, Program Assistant, The Advocates for Human Rights
  Mary Ellingen, Staff Attorney, The Advocates for Human Rights  
  
  
• Workshop 2: Conflict and Human Rights
  This workship will address how conflict leads to human rights violations, what populations are particularly vulnerable, and how human rights law and concepts have been used to prevent and help communities or societies recover from conflict. Panelists will discuss what steps societies and governments can take to decrease the opportunity for human rights violations and how to heal from such situations.
  
  Panelists:
  Monte Achenbach, American Refugee Committee
  Ahmed Sirleaf, Program Associate, The Advocates for Human Rights
  Linda L. Nielsen, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W., International Programs Clinical Consultant, Center for Victims of Torture
  
  
• Plenary Address
  The plenary speaker will discuss the creation and establishment of the new Human Rights Council, including its challenges, its potential for success and how NGO's may effectively access and use it to advocate for the promotion and protection of human rights.

Peggy Hicks, International Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch

• Workshop 3: Using Domestic and International Law to Advocate for Human Rights
  This workshop will use case studies to provide practical information on how to use United States domestic law, and regional and international human rights laws and protection mechanisms to advocates for human rights. Panelists will discuss protecting first amendment rights using the U.S. constitution, protecting rights using the African human rights system, and protecting rights using treaty-based Shadow Reporting mechanisms.
  
  Panelists:
  Thomas Tinkham, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  Korir Sing’Oei, Executive Director, Centre for Minority Rights Development (Cemiride)
  Mark Girouard, Associate, Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson
  
  
• Workshop 4: Human Rights Issues for the 21st Century
  In the context of globalization, panelists will discuss the intersection of human rights and trade, security and the environment.
  
  Panelists:
  Steve Suppan, Senior Policy Analyst, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  Llewellyn Hille, Minnesota Organizer, Oxfam America