COMMITTEE ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS

ELIZABETH BARAD
CO-CHAIR
585 WEST END AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10024
Phone: (212) 874-7169
elizabethbarad@gmail.com



BRANDON C. SMITH
CO-CHAIR
392 ATLANTIC AVENUE
BROOKLYN, NY 11217
Phone: (347) 451-1227
brandocs@gmail.com



KWAME L. DOUGAN
ACTING SECRETARY AND
TREASURER
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022
Phone: (212) 848-8582
kwame.dougan@shearman.com





Meeting Agenda

November 5, 2014, 6:30 P.M at the offices of Shearman & Sterling,
599 Lexington Avenue (53rd & Lexington) Room 2J/K

GuestDr. Amir Idris on The Tragedy of South Sudan-The Way Forward.

Dr. Amir Idris is Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies
and Professor of African History and Politics. His teaching and research interests
focus on the history and politics of colonialism, on slavery and race, and on
postcolonial citizenship in Northeast and Central Africa.

Dr. Idris was born and raised in Sudan and educated in Sudan, Egypt, and Canada. He
received his Ph.D. in African History from Queen's University, Canada, in 2000. He
was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University.
His recent publications include Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Two Sudans: Re-
imagining a common Future (2013); Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan (2005),
and Sudan's Civil Wars: Slavery, Race, and Formational Identities (2001). He has also
published numerous book chapters.

This presentation is free. Registration is required. Please RSVP by November 4
th
with
Kwame at kwame.dougan@shearman.com.










I. Committee Business
A. Approval of September minutes
B. Introduction of attendees
C. Submit your dues to Kwame--$150 private practice and $75 public
interest lawyers

II. Sub-Committee Updates
A. Gender
1. Status Update: Report on laws affecting LGBT people
in Africa; Gambia has recently passed a homophobic law:
should we write a letter?
2. Gender Sensitivity Workshop in Uganda with Professor
Adam Dubin of Universidad Pontifica Comillas in Madrid

B. Freedom of Expression
1. Status Update: Internet Freedom / Social Media Report

C. International Tribunals
1. Update of ICC Africa Digest
2. Proposed project-- to address AU Amendment for
Immunity
of Heads of State
3. Possible projectICC reforms
4. Proposed projectReporting on domestic cases
prosecuting
international crimes
D. Child Soldiers
1. Possible panel in April 2015
2. Presidents determination of waivers on CPSA on
September
30, 2014full waivers to Rwanda, Somalia and Yemen
Partial waivers to CAR, DRC and South Sudan. Letter?
E. Business in Africa
Status Update
F. Sports and Entertainment
Status Update

G. Land Issues Karen Bloomquist--Chair
Project on land grabbing and/or inheritance rights


III. Special Projects / Initiatives


A. Program on the conflict of Islamic law and constitutional law
in Africa
B. Preventing Genocide: International law and the
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) on January 13, 20015
C. Next Meeting

December 1 (Guest: Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa)

IV. Other Business