The Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture
The Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture was established by the Council and the family of Arthur C. Helton, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who died in the August 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. The Helton Lectureship is an annual event at which one or more speakers address pressing issues in the broad field of human rights and humanitarian concerns.
Arthur Helton (1949-2003)
Arthur Helton, a respected lawyer and human rights activist, devoted his life to improving the lives of others. He was director of peace and conflict studies and senior fellow for refugee studies and preventive action at the Council. He was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School. Prior to joining the Council in 1999, he founded and directed the Forced Migration Project at the Open Society Institute and directed the Refugee Project at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Helton Lectures:
Guest Event ⁄ New York
Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture with UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres
Current Challenges of Forced Displacement
Speaker:
António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United NationsPresider:
George Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee
Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
May 31, 2012
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
7:00-7:30 p.m. - Cocktail Reception
This meeting is on the record.
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Guest Event ⁄ New York
Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture
Speaker:
Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of StatePresider:
Jeffrey Toobin, Senior Legal Analyst, CNN; Staff Writer, New Yorker; Author, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Harold Pratt House
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
May 2, 2011
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
7:00-7:30 p.m. - Cocktail Reception
This meeting is not for attribution.
Speaker:
Mary Robinson, Chair, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative; Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsPresider:
James P. Rubin, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
May 5, 2009
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
7:00-7:30 p.m. - Cocktail Reception
This meeting is not for attribution.
Speakers:
Robert Carey, Vice President of Resettlement, International Rescue Committee, James B. Foley, Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, U.S. Department of State, Kristele Younes, Senior Advocate, Refugees International, Deborah S. Amos, Foreign Correspondent, National Public Radio
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY, 10065
April 14, 2008
5:30-6:00 p.m. - Reception
6:00-7:00 p.m. - Meeting
7:00-8:00 p.m. - Cocktail Reception
This meeting is not for attribution.
Speaker:
Jan Egeland, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, United Nations; Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, United NationsPresider:
Gillian M. Sorensen, National Advocate, United Nations Foundation; Former Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY
May 22, 2007
5:30-8:00 p.m.
This meeting is on the record.
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Speakers:
Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Co-Director, The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement; and Principal Adviser to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Francis M. Deng, Director of the Center for Displacement Studies; Research Professor of International Law, Politics and Society, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress; and Wilhelm Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPresider:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
Nwe York, NY
May 15, 2006
This meeting is on the record.
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General Meeting
Inaugural Arthur C. Helton Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Sadako Ogata
Introductory Speaker:
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign RelationsPresider:
Princeton N. Lyman, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeaker:
Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Former United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesThis meeting is not for attribution.
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