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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Liz Ligon</b> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:lligon@escr-net.org">lligon@escr-net.org</a></span><br><br>
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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Forwarded on behalf of: Malcolm Langford / Norwegian Centre on Human Rights, University of Oslo</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">International Symposium: MDGs and Human Rights</span></b></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Keynote speakers include:</span></b></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">•Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights & Director,</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Realizing Rights</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">•Selim Jahan, Director, Poverty Practice, United Nations Development</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Programme</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">•Thomas Pogge, Professor, Yale University</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">•Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor, New School University, New York</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">•Otaviano Canuto, Vice President, World Bank</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">•Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Lead Economist, International Trade Department,</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">World Bank</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">•Gay J. McDougall, UN Indendent Expert on Minority Issues</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </span><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The homepage, agenda and registration details can be found at:</span></b></p>
<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/about/programmes/serp/conferences/MDG.html" target="_blank">http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/about/programmes/serp/conferences/MDG.html</a> </span></p>
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