Front Line Defenders is pleased to announce a collaboration with Christopher McAteer, Moving on Music's 2017/8 Emerging Artist, to present a very special event reflecting on Roger Casement's human rights legacy in the modern world.
Join us as Christopher presents selected scenes from his 2014 opera "Casement", alongside a discussion between human rights defenders, Ilot Alphonse Muthaka and María D'jalma Torres Sánchez, moderated by LGBTI activist Jeffrey Dudgeon.
María D'jalma Torres Sánchez works on the rights of indigenous peoples to self-determination. She has worked with indigenous peoples affected by mega-mining projects since 2011 and has experience in defending at-risk activists before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Ilot Alphonse Muthaka fights for women's rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through mobilising men to support women's leadership and act as role models for positive masculinity. He has faced threats for this work and has, on occasion, been forced to flee the DRC in order to preserve his life.
Activist Jeff Dudgeon's case at the European Court of Human Rights led to the decriminalisation of “homosexual behaviour” in Northern Ireland in 1982. After the ECHR case started in 1976, he was among 25 LGBTI rights activists arrested by the RUC. He has written two books on Roger Casement and continues to work on LGBTI law reform issues. In 2012 he was awarded an MBE for “services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Northern Ireland.”
Admittance to this event is free but we would ask that you consider making a small contribution to the work of Front Line Defenders.
The MAC
10 Exchange Street West, BT1 2NJ Belfast, United Kingdom
6:30 pm, 27 August
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