Room A510
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Please note new location.
This event celebrates the publication of three books on the theories and practices of human rights and development. It will be an occasion to debate why human rights matter in the framing of health and food security, but why they are not being mainstreamed into development policy.
The publications are:
Alicia Ely Yamin. Power, Suffering and the Struggle for Dignity – Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter. University of Pennsylvania Press
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Viviene Taylor (eds). Food Security in South Africa: Human Rights and Entitlement Perspectives. University of Cape Town Press/Juta
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, Susan Randolph. Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights. Oxford University Press
Speakers include:
Alicia Yamin, JD MPH, author and Director of the JD/MPH program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, author and Professor, International Affairs, The New School
Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, NYU Law School
Sponsored by the Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs at the Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at The New School.
Admission free: rsvp required at [email protected]