Human Rights in Development: Books Launch

When:
January 25, 2016 @ 5:00 pm – January 25, 2016 @ 7:00 pm UTC
2016-01-25T17:00:00-05:00
2016-01-25T19:00:00-05:00
Where:
Klein Conference Room
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]

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