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30-09-2021 – Protecting Human Rights

Oration in memory of George Bizos (1927-2020)

Agora Dialogue cordially invites you to an online Oration in memory of its late Patron, George Bizos (1927-2020), the fugitive from Axis-occupied Greece who resettled in South Africa in 1941 where he later became a renowned lawyer whose clients included Nelson Mandela and other victims of Apartheid.

Further biographical details are on the Nelson Mandela Foundation website (at www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/george-bizos).

Q & A will follow at the end of the presentation.

Admission online is free and open to the public.

Speaker: Julian Burnside AO QC, Human Rights and Refugee Advocate, Victoria, Australia

Chair: Dr. Jenny Webb, Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia (scholars.latrobe.edu.au/jmwebb)

 

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