Date: Thursday 5th December 2013
Time: 6pm (registration from 5.30pm, with tea/coffee on arrival)
Venue: The Pillar Room, Rotunda Hospital, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The speaker at this year’s lecture will be Martin O’Brien, an international award-winning human rights campaigner and Senior Vice President for Programmes at the Atlantic Philanthropies. Before joining Atlantic in 2004, Martin spent 17 years coordinating the work of the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), an organisation dedicated to securing the highest standards in the administration of justice in Northern Ireland. Martin has written, spoken and publically campaigned on a wide range of human rights and civil liberties issues and was particularly active in securing strong human rights protections in the Good Friday Agreement. He is a past recipient of the Reebok Human Rights Award, and his work in Northern Ireland has been honoured by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First. In 2001, Martin O’Brien was profiled as one of 51 influential human rights activists around the world by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.
The lecture will be followed by a reception. Attendance is free but places are limited so pre-registration is essential: email events@flac.ie or phone Geraldine Murphy at (01) 887 3600 to register, before Friday 29 November.
If you require sign-language interpretation or other assistance, please let us know by Friday 22 November so that we can the make appropriate arrangements. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
This annual event is held by FLAC in memory of the late Dave Ellis, a community activist who dedicated his career to working with community groups on issues including welfare rights, legal aid, legal education and legal entitlements generally. He was Community Law Officer at Coolock Community Law Centre (now Northside CLC) for more than 20 years. Dave Ellis subsequently established Community Legal Resource to provide information, training and support for the not-for-profit and community sector.