PHM-Exch> Invitation to Attend International Symposium on Human Rights and MDGs, Harvard University, 22-23 March 2010

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Liz Ligon lligon at escr-net.org

   Forwarded on behalf of: Malcolm Langford / Norwegian Centre on Human
Rights, University of Oslo

*International Symposium: MDGs and Human Rights*

 Are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and human rights complementary
or conflicting? What are the consequences for the road to 2015 and beyond?
Scholars and practitioners will come together at Harvard on 22-23 March 2010
to discuss.

 *Keynote speakers include:*

 •Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights & Director,

Realizing Rights

•Selim Jahan, Director, Poverty Practice, United Nations Development

Programme

•Thomas Pogge, Professor, Yale University

•Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor, New School University, New York

•Otaviano Canuto, Vice President, World Bank

•Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Lead Economist, International Trade Department,

World Bank

•Gay J. McDougall, UN Indendent Expert on Minority Issues

 The conference is being hosted by Harvard University, University of Oslo,
Institute for Development Studies - Sussex, UNICEF and Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights

 *The homepage, agenda and registration details can be found at:*

http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/about/programmes/serp/conferences/MDG.html




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