When: May 18 at 20.30-22.00 CET
Where: Zoom webinar, register here

Agenda

Part I: Poverty, Human Rights and the SDG’s
Introduction by Morten Kjaerum
Introduction to the book: ‘Poverty and Human Rights’, Routledge; Edited by Martha F.Davis, Amanda Lyons, Morten Kjaerum.
Expert speeches
Lucy Williams : Beyond the State: Holding International Institutions and Private Entities Accountable for Poverty Alleviation
Domingo Lovera-Parmois : International Human Rights Law, Poverty and Social protests
Gay McDougall : Race, Rights and Poverty in the Americas
Gillian MacNaughton : Do Human Rights address economic inequalities?
Part II:  Discussion

Panelists & Moderators

Panelists

Lucy Williams

Lucy Williams is a law professor at Northeastern University, faculty director of its Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, and co-director of its Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her activism and scholarship have focused on domestic and global inequality. She founded and has coordinated for 15 years the International Social and Economic Rights Project, a group of academics, judges and activists primarily from the Global South working to encourage transformative thinking about social and economic rights.

Domingo Lovera-Parmo

Domingo Lovera-Parmo is an Associate professor of Law at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). Ll.M. Columbia University (2007), Ph.D. Osgoode Hall Law School (2016). His research focuses on the right to protest and constitutional law, social rightsand constitutional rights of children. He teaches constitutional law at Universidad Diego Portales.

Gay McDougall

Gay McDougall is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Fordham Law School. She served for eight years on the UN CERD Committee – the first American to serve on that body — and for six years as the UN Special Rapporteur on minorities. President Biden has nominated her as a member of the CERD Committee.

Gillian MacNaughton

Gillian MacNaughton, JD, DPhil, is Associate Professor of Human Rights in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She works on economic and social rights and their relationship to equality rights, as well as human rights-based approaches to social justice. She is a co-editor of the volumes Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World (Cambridge University Press 2018) and Human Rights and Economic Inequalities (Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2021). She has consulted for WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.

Moderators

Amanda Lyons

Amanda Lyons, JD, is the Executive Director at the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she teaches a course on Poverty and Human Rights.

Her research and advocacy work has focused on human rights and development, the human right to water and gender justice. Prior to joining the University she worked with human rights organizations in Brazil, Colombia, and the United States.

Martha F. Davis

Martha F. Davis is University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she is a faculty co-director of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy.

Davis’s publications include Human Rights Advocacy in the United States (co-author) and Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities (co-editor). She is co-editor of the Human Rights at Home Law Profs Blog and an affiliated scholar of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Morten Kjaerum

Morten Kjærum, moderator,  is Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden and Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was the first director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and Executive Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

He was member of the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination from 2002-08. He is Chair of The Board of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and Chairs the Board of Trustees for the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the field of Human Rights appointed by the UN Secretary General. He has consistently written on human rights issues.

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About the book

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

The book is one of Edgar Routledge’s Research Handbooks in the Human Rights series:

It explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income. It explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

The book was edited by Martha F. Davis, University Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, US, Morten Kjaerum, Adjunct Professor, University of Aalborg, Denmark and Director of Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden and Amanda Lyons, Executive Director and Lecturer in Law, Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota Law School, US

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