ECCHRD


European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation

30th meeting, Lund, Sweden - June 7-8, 2007



Dear friends and colleagues,

We have the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the 30th meeting of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation (ECCHRD). As you probably know, the ECCHRD organises annual meetings for information workers and documentalists of human rights organisations based in Europe. The aims of the 30th meeting are:

a. to discuss new and relevant themes of common interest, both with regard to the context of human rights documentation work as well as issues of particular interest to information workers and documentalists;
b. to share experiences in doing documentation and information work on a daily basis;
c. to develop strategies for collaboration on specific themes and in response to new technological opportunities.

As previously announced, the 30th meeting will take place in Lund, Sweden. The local organiser is the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. The meeting will be held at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (Stora Gråbrödersg. 17 B, P.O. Box 1155, SE-221 05 Lund, Sweden).

The agenda for the 30th meeting is attached.

Accommodation
The local organiser has taken options on rooms in the following hotel. The Hotel Concordia is close to the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the train station and has special prices for the Institute. If you decide to stay in the Concordia Hotel, we will arrange the booking for you. Please fill in the registration form accordingly. You are of course free to find your own accommodation. For all other accommodation options you will need to arrange the booking yourself.

Concordia Hotel Lund
SEK 700 (ca. EUR 75.00) for a single room including breakfast, SEK 900 (ca. EUR 97.00) for a double room including breakfast.
Stålbrogatan 1,
222 24 Lund,
Sweden,
Phone: +46 (0) 46 - 13 50 50,
Fax: +46 (0) 46 - 13 74 22,
Email: info@concordia.se.
http://www.concordia.se
Please note that the prices in EUR might change slightly depending on exchange rate.

Travel
Lund can be reached by two airports:
From Katrup (Copenhagen airport). There is a train from the airport to Lund. You must buy tickets in the machines before you board the train or you can buy them on the train for 50 SEK extra.
http://www.skanetrafiken.skane.se/templates/StartPage.aspx?id=2176&epslanguage=EN
From Sturup (Malmö airport). There is a shuttle to Lund which costs 100 SEK and takes around 45 minutes.

Other expenses
There is no registration fee but you should plan on buying meals locally.

Please be aware that the 6th June is a public holiday in Sweden. Some shops will be closed, but it should not cause any problems for people arriving on that day.

Registration
You can register for the meeting by filling out the online registration form (preferred) or by filling out the registration form attached to this message. Please confirm your participation with the Secretariat before Monday, 7 May 2007. Please note that all costs related to travel and hotel have to be borne by the participants themselves. No funding is available from the Secretariat or the local organisers.

Additional and practical details about the venue, the final agenda and the list of participants will be sent end of May to those who have registered.

Please do not hesitate to contact the ECCHRD Secretariat if you have any questions.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the 30th meeting in Lund!

The ECCHRD Secretariat,
Fiona Bolt and Iris Reiss-Golumbeck
Amnesty International / International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 0DW
Telephone: +44 20 7413 5583 or +44 20 7413 5861
Fax: +44 20 7956 1157
Email: ecchrd-secretariat@amnesty.org

Local organiser:
Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
contact: Lena Olsson, email: lena.olsson@rwi.lu.se