Upcoming Talks
Is Climate Change a Violation of Human Rights?
Dinah Shelton
Thursday, November 19 at 4pm
Buffett Center, 1902 Sheridan Rd., Evanston
Dinah Shelton is professor of international law at George Washington University. She is the author or editor of three prize-winning books: Protecting Human Rights in the Americas; Remedies in International Human Rights Law; and the three volume Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. She has served as a legal consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, UNITAR, World Health Organization, European Union, Council of Europe, and Organization of American States.
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Winter/Spring Speakers
Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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.
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