In day three of PILPG’s Online International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Summer School program, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorneys Charline Yim and Marryum Kahloon and Evershed Sutherland’s Meriam Nazih Al-Rashid provided an overview of human rights, followed by the articulation of the rights of victims and perpetrators of human rights abuses. Click the video below to access a recording of this training, you can also click on the buttons below to find the slides used to guide the conversation.
Click the image above to watch a recording of Day Three of PILPG’s International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Summer School
Schedule
Introduction to Human Right: what are human rights, types of human rights
by Charline Yim & Marryum Kahloon & Meriam Nazih Al-Rashid
Break
Right to fair trial, rights of the accused, rights of victims
by Kate Gibson
Experts:
Meriam Al-Rashid is a Partner at US Office of Eversheds Sutherland, where she represents and advises clients on complex international disputes with a focus on public international law including issues related to human rights, international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and foreign investor risk management. Meriam has served as counsel in disputes and transactions involving parties from across the globe, including the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Meriam also works on matters surrounding post-conflict peace negotiations and governance, and investigation and adjudication of war crimes, including but not limited to: analyzing and documenting atrocity crimes against the Rohingya in Myanmar for the determination of genocide, crimes against humanity and atrocity crimes as well as international adjudication of atrocity crimes in mass deportation or displacement.
Meriam Nizah Al-Rashid
Kate Gibson is Senior Legal Advisor at the Public International Law & Policy Group and currently the co-counsel of Mr. Bosco Ntaganda before the International Criminal Court. She was the Co-Counsel of the former President of the Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the Co-Counsel of Liberian President Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Kate was the youngest person to be appointed as Lead Counsel in a genocide case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She spent 10 years representing the former Vice President of the Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, before the International Criminal Court, and also represented victims in the first case before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. She currently is part of the legal team of former Kosovan President Hashim Thaci before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
Kate Gibson
Charline Yim
Charline Yim is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, specializing in international arbitration and public international law. She regularly advises clients in relation to investment treaty and international commercial disputes, as well as cases before international human rights and criminal law tribunals. Her diverse pro bono practice includes advising stakeholders in treaty negotiations, representing victims of violations of international human rights in domestic and international proceedings, and representing asylum-seekers and victims of domestic violence in immigration proceedings. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Charline was an associate in the dispute resolution group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP and a fellow to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Marryum Kahloon
Marryum Kahloon is a Senior Associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Marryum specializes in international arbitration and public international law disputes. She has advised on cases before the International Court Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, she represents clients in investor-State and commercial disputes under a broad range of arbitration rules. Marryum maintains an active international human rights pro bono practice and her experience includes drafting and submitting petitions to United Nations organs, working with international criminal tribunals, advising on treaty negotiations, and supporting non-governmental organizations with research and strategy.Marryum previously worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris, France, and was also the judicial clerk to the Honorable Margaret McMurdo AC, President of the Court of Appeal of Queensland.