Admission free: RSVP required at iaevents@newschool.edu
This event will celebrate the publication of 3 books on the theories and practices of human rights and development. It will be an occasion to debate: why human rights framing of health and food security matter, but why they are not being mainstreamed into development policy.
The publications include:
Alicia Ely Yamin. Power, Suffering and the Struggle for Dignity – Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Viviene Taylor (eds). Food Security in South Africa: Human Rights and Entitlement Perspectives.
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, Susan Randolph. Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights. Oxford University Press
Speakers include:
- Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Extreme Poverty, NYU School of Law Professor and CHRGJ Faculty Director
- 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
- Sanjay Ruparelia, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
- Manjari Mahajan, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, The New School
