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Human Rights Series » Is Climate Change a Violation of Human Rights?
Dinah Shelton, George Washington University
Thursday, November 19 at 4pm - Buffett Center Conference Rm.
Faculty & Fellows Colloquium
CANCELLED
Friday, November 20
Featured Winter/Spring Speakers
Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
John L. Esposito, editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islam and The Oxford History of Islam and author of Unholy War, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam.
Geoff Robinson, author of "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor
Roxana Saberi, Iranian-American journalist and Medill alumna, who was imprisoned in Iran in 2009.
Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate in economics and specialist in development.
Ambassador Richard S. Williamson, recently the President’s Special Envoy to Sudan.
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Is Climate Change a Violation of Human Rights?
Dinah Shelton
Thursday, November 19 at 4pm
Buffett Center, 1902 Sheridan Rd., Evanston
Dinah L. Shelton, George Washington University, is the author or editor of three prize-winning books: Protecting Human Rights in the Americas; Remedies in International Human Rights Law; and the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. She has served as a legal consultant to the UN Environment Programme, UNITAR, World Health Organization, EU, Council of Europe, and Organization of American States. |
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Welcome home to 44 participants of this year’s Global Engagement Summer Institute
GESI participants were placed in teams of three to five students at ten NGOs in India, Uganda and Argentina to implement community development projects.
Some of the teams mobilized migrant communities in Argentina to build a greenhouse out of wasted plastic bottles, documented the relationship between the environment and tribal communities in India, and trained a newly formed Ugandan savings and credit cooperative to begin micro-lending activities.
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Ambassador Richard S. Williamson,
Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies
Ambassador Williamson recently completed an assignment as the President’s Special Envoy to Sudan. His many diplomatic posts have included serving as Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna and Ambassador
to the UN Commission on Human Rights. He is the author of numerous articles and books, most recently American Primacy and Multilateral Cooperation.
Williamson recently led the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) election observer mission in Afghanistan. Read his recent article in The American: Afghanistan’s Historic Election.
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Northwestern University Middle East Forum Launched
NUMEF is a new interdisciplinary group of faculty members
interested in the study of the contemporary Middle East.
The inaugural meeting of the Forum, held June 2, 2009, was attended by 45 scholars studying the region and representing diverse disciplines including: history, political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, cultural studies, journalism, communications, Arabic, Turkish, and Persian languages.
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