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== From AI's *Editorial Review Board, [[Human Rights Quarterly]] <ref>[http://webwww.amnestypress.orgjhu.edu/mavpjournals/avhuman_rights_quarterly/editorial.nsfhtml Editors and Editorial Board], Human Rights Quarterly, accessed March 22, 2010.</pages/Paul website]: ==ref>
SW: *Editorial Review Board, Human Rights Quarterly <ref>[http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/editorial.html Editors and Editorial Board], Human Rights Quarterly, accessed March 2
== From AI's website: == :'''Paul Hoffman''' was elected Chair of the International Executive Committee of [[Amnesty International ]] in September 2002.
:A Civil Rights and Human Rights Attorney since 1976, Paul has been a member of Amnesty International since the mid-1970's. He became very active in AIUSA in approximately 1981 and 1982 when he organized the AIUSA Legal Support Network. He was the National Coordinator of the Legal Support Network from 1982 to 1987 which included travelling around the United States setting up local legal groups, as well as creating the national structure for this new forum within AIUSA.
:For many years Paul was the Legal Director of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU) Foundation of Southern California in Los Angeles. The ACLU is one of the leading NGOs in the United States and one of the largest. He was deeply involved in management and organizational issues within the ACLU both in Los Angeles and nationally. For many years, he was the national coordinator of ACLU Legal Directors nationally and participated in the various debates about how the ACLU should be organized nationally and locally. He has been either a Board member or a member of the Advisory Board of a number of other human rights or civil rights organizations in the United States over the years
:— AI [http://web.amnesty.org/mavp/av.nsf/pages/Paul website]
== Hoffman's personal website ==
*[[Center For Human Rights and Constitutional Law]]: Member of Board
International Human Rights Law Group: Member of Domestic Advisory Committee
*Patron, [[Kurdish Human Rights Project]] <ref>[http://www.khrp.org/content/view/239/68/ Boards], Kurdish Human Rights Project, accessed February 28, 2008.</ref>
== AI pulls out of UNESCO meeting ==
On May 17, 2004, AI pulled out of a UNESCO meeting because it found over a disagreement over a paper Hoffman's position on would present at the "war on terror" too US-centricconference.
:Amnesty International has withdrawn from a UNESCO human rights conference in Nantes, France, because UNESCO attempted to censor Amnesty International?s message on human rights, the "war on terror" and the role of the USA.
:'''Abstract''': "In this article, Paul Hoffman, the Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International, presents Amnesty's view that the way in which the "war on terrorism" has been waged threatens to undermine the international human rights framework so painstakingly built since World War II. Written before the Abu Ghraib revelations became public, the paper argues that abandoning human rights in times of crisis is shortsighted and self-defeating. A "war on terrorism" waged without respect for the rule of law undermines the very values that it presumes to protect. We must restore the balance between liberty and security by reasserting the human rights framework, which provides for legitimate and effective efforts to respond to terrorist attacks."
[[Category:Civil liberties (U.S.)]][[Category:Needs review]]
