Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society: NAVANETHEM PILLAY

“Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society”

A Talk By: NAVANETHEM PILLAY
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008-2014 and Judge of the International Criminal Court, 2003-2008

Opening Remarks: PAUL ALIVISATOS, Vice Chancellor for Research and Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, UC Berkeley

Hosted by: Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Project, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley

Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall, Berkeley School of Law

· Introductions by Professor Angana P. Chatterji, Visiting Research Anthropologist and Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender, UC, Berkeley

· Moderated by Professor Laurel E. Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law & Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, School of Law, UC, Berkeley

This Talk is Free and Open to the Public
Location is wheelchair accessible

Co-sponsors: 

University of California, Berkeley:

• Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
• Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law
• Institute for South Asia Studies
• International and Area Studies
• International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley School of Law
• Miller Institute For Global Challenges and the Law, Berkeley School Of Law
• Muslim Identities and Cultures, a Working Group of the Center for Race & Gender and of the Townsend Center

Columbia University:

• Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University

Stanford University:

• WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University