MDGs and Human Rights Symposium, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

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

Time and place: Mar 22, 2010 - Mar 23, 2010, Harvard University

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

Symposium Agenda with abstracts

Powerpoints

Pictures

Additional Instructions and Style Guidelines for Authors

Conference Report