“60/60: the Role of NATO Post-9/11.”

High-level speakers will address NATO's changing role post-9/11 and examine NATO's role in the rendition and torture of terrorist suspects, as well as key issues of accountability, especially in Afghanistan. With experienced and award-winning speakers from a broad range of background, the conference will be a unique platform to debate critical questions on the eve of the 60^th Summit.  

For the program details and to register online, visit:  www.ccrjustice.org/60-60conference.

Speakers will come from Europe, Russia, the United States, and Afghanistan, and include:

- Giorgio Malinverni, sitting judge at the European Court of Human Rights,

- Edgar Buckley, former NATO Assistant Secretary General (1999-2003),

- Multiple award-winner Ms. Sima Samar, Chairwoman of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission,

- Canadian rendition and torture victim Maher Arar (via live video conference),

- Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights,

- Alain Joxe, founding director of the Paris-based "Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur la Paix et d'Etudes Stratégiques",

- Leading UK attorneys Phil Shiner and Francoise Hampson,

- Dr. Dimitri Danilov, Head of Department of European Security from the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow,

- Wolfgang Kaleck, co-founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights,

- Investigator Gavin Simpson, or

- Dan Van Raemdonck Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights.