BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1334566.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011058Z DESCRIPTION:\n The establishment of the Commission on Unalienable Rights (“P ompeo Commission”) in 2019 prompted concern among human rights advocates a nd academics that the Commission could redirect U.S. human rights policy i n ways that would be self-defeating and would create serious damage to int ernational cooperation for the protection of human rights.\n\n\n\n The Comm ission released a draft report last week accompanied by a speech by Secret ary Pompeo where he attacked the 1619 Project\, questioned the so-called p roliferation of rights and the role of international courts\, and pointed to America’s unique role in championing “the dignity of every human being made in the image of God.”\n\n\n\n Join us for a conversation with Andrea P rasow\, Acting Washington Director at Human Rights Watch\, Mathias Risse\, Faculty Director for the Carr Center\, and Katharine G. Young\, Professor of Law at Boston College Law School\, moderated by Sushma Raman\, Executi ve Director of the Carr Center. \; \;\n\n\n\n Panelists: \;\n\n \n\n \n Andrea Prasow | Washington Director (Acting)\, Human Rights Watch\n \n \n Katharine G. Young | Professor of Law\, Boston College Law School\n \n \n Mathias Risse | Faculty Director\, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy\n \n \n Sushma Raman (Moderator) | Executive Director\, Carr Center\n \n\n\n\n A ndrea Prasow is the acting Washington director at Human Rights Watch. She conducts advocacy before the US government on global human rights issues\, with a particular focus on national security and human rights. Prasow fre quently appears on domestic and international radio and television and has published in a wide range of print and online media outlets\, including P olitico\, The Hill\, and Foreign Policy. Prior to joining Human Rights Wat ch\, Prasow was a defense attorney with the Office of Military Commissions . She served as assistant counsel for Salim Hamdan in the only contested m ilitary commission trial to date. Prasow was previously an associate at a New York law firm where\, in addition to representing large corporations i n complex civil litigation she served as habeas counsel for ten Saudi deta inees at Guantanamo. Andrea holds an Honors B.A. from the University of To ronto in political science and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Cente r. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District o f Columbia.\n\n\n\n Katharine G. Young \;is a \;Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. Her scholarship focuses on comparative constit utional law\, positive state obligations\, international human rights law\ , and public law and gender. \;Professor Young has professional legal experience in Melbourne\, New York\, in the United Nations and in an NGO i n Accra\, Ghana. \;Before teaching at Boston College\, Professor Young was an Associate Professor at the Australian National University\, a Visi ting Assistant Professor at Boston University. She has been a Fellow at Ha rvard University’s Project on Justice\, Welfare and Economics\, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Weatherhead Center for International A ffairs. Professor Young’s monograph\, \;Constituting Economic and Soci al Rights \;(Oxford University Press\, 2012)\, is published in the Oxf ord Constitutional Theory series\, and she has also edited \;The Futur e of Economic and Social Rights \;(Cambridge University Press\, 2019) and \;The Public Law of Gender \;(Cambridge University Press\, 201 6) (with Kim Rubenstein). She is currently editing\, with Malcolm Langford \, \;The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights. \; In 2016 \, her article \;Rights and Queues: Distributive Contests in the Moder n State\, was selected for the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. \n\n\n\n Mathias Risse is the Faculty Director at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Publ ic Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work primarily addres ses questions of global justice ranging from human rights\, inequality\, t axation\, trade and immigration to climate change\, obligations to future generations and the future of technology. He has also worked on questions in ethics\, decision theory and 19th century German philosophy\, especiall y Nietzsche. Risse is the author of On Global Justice and Global Political Philosophy. On Global Justice is known for introducing the 'grounds-of-ju stice' approach to global political thought. Global Political Philosophy i s an introduction to political thought from a global standpoint rather tha n the more typical state-focused perspective. Risse is currently completin g two additional books. The first is the co-authored\, On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal\, forthcoming with Oxford Univer sity Press (with Gabriel Wollner). The other is On Justice: Philosophy\, H istory\, Foundations\, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.\n\n\n \n Sushma Raman is the Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Righ ts Policy. She brings over two decades of global experience launching\, sc aling\, and leading social justice and philanthropic programs and collabor atives\, building capabilities of grassroots human rights organizations an d their leaders\, and teaching graduate courses in the public policy schoo ls at UCLA\, USC\, and Harvard Kennedy School. Sushma is the co-author\, a long with Bill Schulz (former executive director of Amnesty International USA and Carr Center Senior Fellow)\, of the book The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights\, released by Harvard University Press in June 2020. This forward-looking book examines the coming changes to th e human rights landscape and argues that rights must adapt to new technolo gical and scientific realities or risk being consigned to irrelevance. Sus hma is the host of the Carr Center’s Justice Matters podcast\, a contribut or to Foreign Policy magazine\, and a facilitator for many Carr Center eve nts\, including the Human Rights in Hard Places and the Struggle for Black Lives series. She is currently a member of the board of RFK Human Rights\ , established by the family of Bobby Kennedy.\n\n\n\n Virtual Event Details \n\n\n\n This event will be livestreamed on YouTube Live. Attendees registe red for this event (link below) will receive a reminder for the livestream fifteen minutes before the event along with a link to the YouTube page wh ere you can participate in the live chat and ask questions during the even t.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n  \;\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200730T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200730T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20200723T143513Z LOCATION:Virtual Event (Registration Required) SUMMARY:The Pompeo Commission on Unalienable Rights: A Selective Vision of Human Rights URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/pompeo-commission-una lienable-rights-selective-vision-human-rights END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR