Human Rights and the Global Disorder lecture to take place at ATU Donegal next week

Amnesty International Ireland (Letterkenny group) will present Human Rights and the Global Disorder: The Inaugural Amnesty International Law Lecture next week.

Amnesty Ireland Executive Director Stephen Bowen will deliver the lecture at ATU Donegal's Letterkenny campus, room 1104, in conjunction with ATU Law Society and the Palestine Solidarity Society on Tuesday, March 3, at 10:30am till 12 noon.

Bowen is a social justice and human rights advocate, lawyer and academic with over 30 years' experience of human rights work. He originally trained as a barrister and practised from the Chambers of Michael Mansfield QC, before leaving to join the United Nations as Chief Human Rights Officer to the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

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He has held senior positions within a number of leading human rights NGOs including: Campaigns Director, Amnesty International UK; Chief Executive Officer, British Institute of Human Rights; Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; Director, Sigrid Rausing Trust; Programme Director, International Human Rights Law Group; and Director of FIELD (Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development).

He is also a Trustee of Manchester Pride and of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, a faculty of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

The lecture is open to members of the public and all are welcome.