HOT Summer Seminars Conclude with
Second Part of Civil Rights Series
Santo Domingo, July 20, 2009
InteRDom’s HOT Summer Seminar
series concluded on Wednesday, July
22 with the second installation of
the seminar “Civil Rights in the
Dominican Republic,” with the
participation of Henry Molina,
Director of Escuela Nacional de
Judicatura and Coordinator of the
E-justice Program.
After Molina’s introduction to the
topic in the first installment, the
second session called on
participants to present the results
of their week of group research.
Each group took the stage to discuss
their findings on the following
topics: Women’s Rights, the American
Convention on Human Rights,
Children’s Rights, Universal
Declaration of Human Rights,
International Covenant of Civil and
Political Rights, International
Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights and Rights of the
Youth.
The participants were motivated and
enthusiastic in their presentations,
and there was lively debate before
and after each one. Cultural and
geographic differences were put on
display during, allowing for a very
international perspective to be
discussed.
“(InteRDom) is allowing for each
participant to come into contact
with the internationalization of
rights, it is allowing fundamental
rights, human rights, to enter into
a much more global dynamic than we
have seen in recent years,” said
presenter Henry Molina. “InteRDom’s
initiative makes sense for the
Dominican Republic insofar as it
connects the local with the global,
or the international.”
InteRDom’s HOT Summer Seminar series
is a product of its mission to
promote professional, academic,
scientific, technological and
cultural exchange of students and
professionals in public, private and
non-profit organizations of the
Dominican Republic and to provide
spaces for personal and professional
growth, internationalization and
multicultural understanding.
In total, the two seminars were
attended by more than 140 students
and professionals of Dominican,
Haitian, European and American
heritage, who took advantage of the
opportunity to voice their opinions
and hear an international
perspective on these two very “hot”
topics.
InteRDom, the premier internship and
academic study program in the
Dominican Republic, offers students
the opportunity to gain professional
experience by interning with
Dominican organizations and
businesses related to their field of
study, while taking courses at local
universities. InteRDom was launched
in 2005, and has since provided
internship and academic study
opportunities to students from 30
international universities. Summer
seminars are open to the public and
represent an excellent opportunity
for cultural exchange, gathering
students from the Dominican
Republic, the United States and
Haiti.
