2019-06-09

2018-12-10

Tragedies have a way of compensating with the opposite. From the Holocaust, we got Nuremberg (1945). We got a theory. The theory of personal responsibility for obeying an order that harms others without a cause. And from Nuremberg, we got The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). And in short order, we got the term genocide coined by Raphael Lemkin for whom I was an Assistant.

2017-03-31

One of the early strategies is to contact selected law firms in the U.S., Canada, and beyond for invitations to fund training of the legal and judicial communities in topics relating to the work of these law firms in those areas.

A comprehensive list of topics is being drafted by Dr. El-Ayouty in consultation with this Unit for later posting with invitations addressed to selected law firms.

All law firms wherever they may exist are, by this issue of "SUNSGLOW Updates," invited to initiate on their own contacts with SUNSGLOW with indications of interest and preferred topics. The entire results of this approach to funding of SUNSGLOW activities shall be reported in late June 2017 to the SUNSGLOW Executive Committee.

Dr. Zahra Hend Shnayen, associated with this Unit in her ex officio capacity.

2014-06-27

Letter to the SUNSGLOW Board

2014-06-20

Through this photo, SUNSGLOW's past is linked to its present. The photo shows one of our valued Associates, Jeffrey Fisher, Esq. (USA) greeting the Honorable Gregory Carman, the then Chief Judge of the US Court of International Trade (NYC).

The occasion was a SUNSGLOW program in Nassau, the Bahamas in June 2001, where our organization was training the Bahamian Bar and judiciary in issues relating to the laws governing the freedom of trade.

Judge Carman, one of the original founders of SUNSGLOW, was at that time also Chairman of the SUNSGLOW Board. Our host at Nassau was the Honorable Ambassador Maurice Moore, the then Bahamas' Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Till today, he remains our SUNSGLOW Regional Representative in the Caribbean.

Jeff is a former student of Yassin El-Ayouty, Esq., when Yassin was an Adjunct Professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, NYC (1996-2002).

2014-06-06

1. On October 7, 2014, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, New York City, a panel on: "Civil Rights v. National Security." This panel shall be chaired by the Hon. District Court Judge Paul G. Gardephe. This panel is open to the public at no fee.
2. On October 14, 2014 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, at Fordham University School of Law, New York City, the first of an annual series bearing the name of Dr. Hend Alkhulthaila. This series is intended to honor her as the first woman in Saudi Arabia to be appointed University Dean at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The title of this annual series is "Islam and the State" It shall be moderated by Scott Karson, Esq., of Lamb and Barnosky LLP; Vice President, New York State Bar; Past President of the Suffolk County Bar; and Member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association. This panel is open to the public at no fee.
3. On December 2, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, in Toronto, Canada, at a location to be later determined by SUNSGLOW Director of Operations, Dr. Zahra Hend Shnayen, together with our Regional Representative, Dr. Jonathan Krehm. This panel shall deal with the novel topic entitled "The Changing Definition of Alliances: The Case of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.A." Admission shall be for a fee.

2014-04-04

UPDATE: A copy of this speech is available by clicking here.

Fordham University School of Law , together with SUNSGLOW -- Global Training in the Rule of Law ,are holding a seminar on " The Coptic Question : Protecting Minorities During National Upheavals " . It shall be held on Thursday , April 10 , from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at The US Courthouse , 40 Foley Square , Manhattan , Room 705 ( Court Room of District Court Judge Paul Gardephe ) . { Lexington Subway stop at The Brooklyn Bridge } . The keynote speaker is Dr. Yassin El-Ayouty , Esq. , the respondent is Caroline Doss , Esq. , and the moderator is Joseph Guirgis , Attorney . The statement of Dr. El-Ayouty is largely based on material supplied for the purpose of that event by official sources at the Cathedral of St.Mark , Abbasiah , Cairo . All are welcome as admission is free and open to the public .

2014-01-17

Following up on its successful event in Toronto in 2012 on "The Arab Spring and Human Rights," we are gearing up to organize another event in the same locale. Preparations are now being made by Dr. Zahra Hend Shnayen, Director of Operations, in consultation with Barrister/Arbitrator William Horton (head of our Regional Liaison Center in Toronto) and Dr. El-Ayouty for that event in Toronto on May 22.

The topic is related to Arab Spring upheavals and their effects on national reconciliation. It is entitled "Transitional Justice," and the event is open to the public free of charge.

Transitional Justice is a concept which arose from the fact that after every revolution or change of regime there are winners and losers. The losers are mostly good contributing citizens who find themselves shut out of their country's new march toward democracy and development. In the Arab Spring revolutions, such exclusion deprives the country from integrating these talents within the new order.

Transitional Justice is basically the fashioning of legal, political and administrative environments where all national energies are utilized. Thus it could be regarded as the other side of the coin of national reconciliation intended to harness all talents.