{"id":969,"date":"2015-09-28T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=969"},"modified":"2015-09-29T00:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T23:24:46","slug":"between-security-and-rights-a-cecil-guest-lecture-on-29-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/between-security-and-rights-a-cecil-guest-lecture-on-29-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Security and Rights – a CeCIL Guest Lecture on 29 September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Chief of the Witness and Victim Section of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Mr Saleem Vahidy, will give a guest lecture entitled \u2018Between Security and Rights\u2019 on Tuesday 29th September, launching the autumn term guest lecture programme for Kent Law School\u2019s Centre for Critical International Law<\/a> (CeCIL).<\/p>\n

Mr. Vahidy is the former Chief of the Witness and Victim Section of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and former Deputy Chief of the Witness and Victims Support Section of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Prior to working for these United Nations-backed international criminal tribunals, he was the chief of police of Karachi, Pakistan. He currently consults for the United Nations on developing witness protection programs, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing upon these experiences, his talk will engage with issues of witness protection and rule of law interventions in international criminal law and beyond.<\/p>\n

CeCIL<\/a> is an innovative research centre, based at Kent Law School, which aims to foster critical approaches to the field of international law, and other areas of law that touch upon global legal problems. CeCIL offers a busy programme of activities that includes collaborative events with researchers from all over the world who share an interest in the critical study of international law.<\/p>\n

Mr. Vahidy\u2019s guest lecture, to which all Kent Law School staff and students are welcome, will take place at 6.00pm in Eliot Lecture Theatre 2, on the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent.<\/p>\n