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2007

Jan. 03, 2007: Discussion with Hon. Mary Davis, international women's rights consultant working in Rwanda, Amman, and Kabul. 3:20 p.m.-4:50 p.m., Room 202.

Jan. 19, 2007: Focus Group on Human Rights Coops, 12-1:30 p.m., NUSL. Pizza served.

April 02, 2007: Dean Harold Koh, Yale Law School, presents the annual Valerie Gordon Lecture, 12-1:30 p.m., Room 97.

April 13, 2007: Continuing Legal Education Program on Human Rights and Comparative Law, at Columbia Law School in New York City, co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law, Columbia and NUSL. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

April 25, 2007: Brown-bag lunch with Bruce Porter, Director, Social Rights Advocacy Centre, Toronto, Canada

April 26, 2007: Professor Hilary Charlesworth, "Building Democracy After Conflict," Australia National University, NU Forum, 12-1:30 p.m.

April 26, 2007: Human Rights Training for Massachusetts State Legislators, co-sponsored by PHRGE, Suffolk Law School, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free to NUSL students.

May 31, 2007: Professor Martha Davis Leads PHRGE Efforts to Establish Civil Gideon in King v. King (more)

October 2007: SSRN Human Rights and the Global Economy Online Journal Celebrates 25,000 Downloads (more)

2006

Nov. 06, 2006: Focus Group on Human Rights Coops, 12-1:30 p.m., Room 54, NUSL. Pizza served.

Nov. 10, 2006: Adam Ezra Group, Fundraiser for PHRGE, 10 p.m., Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., $12 advance; $18 door. More info: www.adamezra.com

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  Human Rights and the Global Economy is edited by Hope Lewis, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Wendy Parmet, George J. and Katherine Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, and Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law.

  Human Rights and the Global Economy is an interdisciplinary forum for posting abstracts, works-in-progress, and completed scholarly works on law and policy in any of three related areas:

  International Human Rights (including individual rights to health, food, education, housing, and culture, civil and political rights such as equality and nondiscrimination rights and the right not to be arbitrarily detained or tortured; as well as collective rights such as indigenous peoples' rights, the right to development and the right to self-determination of peoples);

  Economic and Social Development (including public health, education, income-generation and credit, food security, housing, and environmental sustainability as well as the legal and social implications of large-scale technological, industrial, or infrastructure shifts); and

  The Global Economy (including globalization, international trade and aid policy, labor migration and out-sourcing, human trafficking, and the impact of transnational corporate activity on the health and living standards of workers and the environment).

  We encourage scholars to submit work that addresses human rights on the international level as well as their promotion and realization "on the ground" in domestic and local contexts. Similarly, we invite scholarly work that engages the implications of development or global economic issues at community, national, and regional levels in the Global South (including poor and otherwise marginalized communities located in the geographic North) as well as the broader impact on South-North law and policy as a whole.

  Contributions are welcome from scholars of law, political science, political economy, public health, development studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

  This web site will let you browse all abstracts and papers in this journal.

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Dec. 10, 2006: Launch date for Human Rights and the Global Economy, PHRGE's online journal through the Social Science Research Network, edited by Profs. Parmet, Lewis and Dyal-Chand.

Dec. 10, 2006: International Human Rights Day. Publication date for PHRGE Report on Civil Gideon and International Human Rights Law.

Dec. 10, 2006: In honor of Human Rights Day, the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy has released a new report, "In the Interests of Justice: Human Rights and the Right to Counsel in Civil Cases."

2005

June 2005: the program cosponsored a two-day symposium, including a major symposium, held at Harvard Law School, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the South African Freedom Charter, and a consultation at the School of Law focused on "Realizing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Communities, Courts and the Academy." The Honorable Pius Langa, chief justice of the South African Constitutional Court, delivered remarks as did other members of the judiciary, NGOs and academics. A report summarizing this expert consulation is now available as a downloadable PDF document:
Realizing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Communities, Courts and the Academy (117 pages).