Chatham House is taking the opportunity of the Chatham House Prize 2011 to Aung San Suu Kyi, to engage members, policy-makers and the wider public in discussion on issues surrounding democracy and human rights in contemporary society. During the period leading up to the ceremony a series of events will explore questions of democracy and human rights across the world.
For more information please contact Members Events Team.
Cherie Booth QC, Matrix Chambers
Chair: David Mepham, UK Director, Human Rights Watch
Joanne Foakes, Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House; and Author, The Position of Heads of State and other Senior Officials in International Law (OUP; forthcoming)
Georg Nolte, Member of UN International Law Commission
Discussant: Christopher Hall, Senior Legal Adviser, Amnesty International
Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst, CMG, Associate Fellow, International Law, Chatham House
Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank and Nobel Laureate (2006)
Chair: Rt Hon Lord Boateng, House of Lords
Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, former Deputy and Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Patrizia Scannella, Deputy Representative to the UN in Geneva, Amnesty International
Dr Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Activist and Nobel Laureate (2003)
Chair: Christopher Rundle, Research Analyst, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (1963-98)
Dr Hannah Tonkin, lawyer, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UN ICTR)
Ian Ralby, Counsel, Picard, Kentz & Rowe, LLP and Executive Director, I.R. Consilium
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC, Co-Chair, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01) and Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (1988-96)
Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst, CMG, Associate Fellow, International Law, Chatham House