U.S. Consulate On Human Rights Webchats
U.S. Consul General Bob Settje is pleased to announce a series of web-based programs to bring experts and regular citizens together for an interactive dialogue on human rights issues of global importance. Each event will be hosted on www.humanrights.gov/stateofrights.
Online audiences from around the world can join the discussion, debate policies, and engage government and policy leaders, as well as continue the conversation online after each event by clicking on the hashtag #StateofRights on their favorite social media platform.
The first program of the series, “Citizen Activism – Building Coalitions,” will air on Tuesday, September 9, 2014, from 10-11AM Bermuda time. This event will focus on citizen activism and the development of diverse coalitions for legislative change, highlighting the development of key civil rights legislation in the U.S.
Participants will be Judy Heumann, Special Advisor for International Disability Rights, U.S. Department of State; former U.S. Representative Barney Frank, Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional District; Judy Woodruff, journalist and writer (PBS); and Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
The second program, “Internet for Social Good,” scheduled for Monday, September 22, from 1-2PM Bermuda time, will be a three-part discussion focusing on the role of the Internet in strengthening democracies, facilitating the exchange of ideas, growing economies, improving global health, and fostering education, and will conclude with the argument for an open and inclusive governance structure.
Participants will include Assistant Secretary Tom Malinowski of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State; Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Sepulveda of the Office of International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State; and a representative from civil society.
The final event of the series, “Inclusive Growth: The Role of Civil Society in Labor,” will discuss the role of civil society and the right to freedom of association in promoting broad-based economic growth. The Consulate will provide the date and list of participants for this panel as soon as that information is available. Please check the Consulate’s website at http://hamilton.usconsulate.gov for updates.
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As an 81-year-old 30-year postoperative “Made-in-theUSA” male-to-female transsexual Bermudian—contentedly ensconced in Britain since being driven beyond Bermuda’s socio-economic pale with impunity near twenty-four years ago…
I sincerely hope that the honorable US Consul General Bob Settje and his distinguished panelists’ dialogue will trigger and enable a favorable resolution to the shameful legal plight of gender-variant folk on Bermuda be they (transgender, transsexual, cross-dressers, or intersex) covert or overt… who—whether UK Gender Recognition Act 2004 preferred gender certificated or not—can be discriminated against with impunity…
Yes, by the callous omission of “gender -identity, -presentation, -experience” from Bermuda’s much lauded Bermuda Human Rights Amendment Act 2013… Bermuda legislators sanctioned the continued right on Bermuda to discriminate with impunity against any man, woman, or child known to have or presenting symptoms of the bone fide (APA DSM-5) medical condition of Gender Dysphoria…
Brenda Lana Smith, R.af D…
Founder of “Stand up for Gender-Variant People’s Rights on Bermuda…”