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The National LGBT Bar Association invites
you to join us for
Sochi 2014: A Legal & Personal Perspective
on Thursday, January 30th
The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics is just days away. As LGBT athletes from around the world converge on Russia, advocates, legal professionals and the LGBT community are asking: How will the Russian government’s anti-gay laws impact the games, the athletes and visitors?
In June, Russia enacted an anti-LGBT propaganda law that drew international criticism. In recent days, as world media has questioned Vladmir Putin and the Russian government about the law’s implementation during the Games, officials’ responses have done little to quell serious concerns among human rights advocates and monitors.
The LGBT Bar is bringing together a unique line-up of speakers for a webinar to discuss the legal climate in Russia and the current status of anti-LGBT laws. We’re especially proud to be joined by Arkady Gyngazov, a Russian asylee, who will talk about his experience in Russia and the need for advocacy on behalf of the LGBT community.
National Webinar
Sochi 2014: A Legal & Personal Perspective
Thursday, January 30, 2014
10:00am – 11:00am ET
Click here to register
Speakers include:
- Dmitri Barnenev: Dmitri Bartenev is currently practicing at the ONEGIN Group Law Office for Medical Law. Since 2004 he also works as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the St. Petersburg State University teaching international law and human rights. He has been involved in a number of topical ECHR cases concerning rights of people with mental health or intellectual disabilities, gay and lesbian persons, and protection of NGOs in Russia. He represented the applicant in Alekseyev v. Russia (ECtHR, Oct. 2010), among other cases.
- Arkady Gyngazov: Arkady Gyngazov is the former manager of Central Station Nightclub in Moscow. He is currently seeking asylum in the United States after facing anti-LGBT harassment in Russia.
- Michael Sisitzky: Michael Sisitzky is a staff attorney for Immigration Equality who conducts advocacy on behalf of gay and lesbian binational couples. Michael received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, and he completed his undergraduate studies at New York University.
- Robert Wintemute: Robert Wintemute is a Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, King's College, University of London, where he teaches European Union Law, Human Rights Law, and Anti-Discrimination Law. He is the author of Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: The United States Constitution, the European Convention, and the Canadian Charter (Oxford University Press, 1997), and the editor (with honorary co-editor Mads Andenæs) of Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European and International Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2001).
Please join us for this timely and important discussion about the 2014 Olympic Games, and the international response to Russia’s LGBT laws.
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