| Center-Sponsored
Course, Fall 2004 |
Mariclaire Acosta Urquidi
"Democratic Change and Human Rights in Mexico"
In
2000, Mexico completed a peaceful transition to democracy,
the seeds of which had been planted at least
two decades before.
Although human rights were at the center of this transition,
little has actually been achieved in terms of resolving the country’s
deeply entrenched problems. The course will explore the reasons
for this and will appraise the strategies carried out by the
different actors concerned in the struggle for human rights during
the last 20 years.
Mariclaire Acosta Urquidi is the former subsecretary for Human
Rights and Democracy in the Secretariat of Foreign Relations
Office in Mexico. Her career in the field of human rights has
led her on missions ranging from investigating the treatment
of immigrants in the United States to studying the effects of
violence in Colombia. Currently she is a member of the Advisory
Council on Foreign Relations and a board member for the Center
for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).
October
8 – 29, Fridays, 10:00 am – 1:00
pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
LAS 298.2/198.2; 1 unit; pass/no-pass grading option
This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
To obtain a class entry code, please submit a brief narrative
describing your interest and experience in the subject matter.
Please email this statement to Teresa Stojkov, Vice Chair of
CLAS at tstojkov@berkeley.edu by September 1, 2004.
Other
courses sponsored by the Center this fall:
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