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 RDATE:20211107T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1378717.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011111Z DESCRIPTION:\n Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its s ignature weekly series this fall\, \;The Fierce Urgency of Now\, \ ;featuring Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color scholars\, activists\, and community leaders\, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilit ated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse\, the series also aligns with a cou rse they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice. \;\n\n\n\n Panelist:\n\n\n\n Aminta Ossom | \;Clinical Instructor\, International Human Rights Law Clinic\, Har vard Law SchoolSalil Shetty \;| former Secretary General\, Amnesty Int ernational\n\n\n\n Aminta Ossom \;is a Clinical Instructor at the \ ;International Human Rights Clinic. \;She \;focuses on equality\, inclusion\, and economic and social rights. She also has research interest s in human rights diplomacy\, the role of identity in advocacy\, and symbi oses between civil and human rights movements. Prior to joining the Human Rights Program \;in Fall 2019\, Aminta was a human rights officer at t he United Nations\, where she supported the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and the Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council in fact-fi nding\, advocacy and training in Africa\, Latin America\, Southeast Asia a nd Europe. Before joining the UN\, Aminta taught international human right s at Fordham Law School as a Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights and Adjunct Professor of Law. \; There she designed and led a field st udy examining barriers to education faced by persons with disabilities in Rwanda. She has also served as a supervising attorney for independent clin ical and externship students. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 2009\, Aminta \;focused on \;transitional justice\, including as a Satter Human Rights Fellow with Amnesty International in West Africa.&nbs p\;While at HLS\, she was a dedicated member of \;the \;Internatio nal Human Rights Clinic. She also holds a Masters in African Politics from SOAS\, University of London\, and a BA from the University of Oklahoma.\n \n\n\n Salil Shetty joined Amnesty International as the organization’s eigh th Secretary General in 2010. A long-term activist on poverty and justice\ , Salil Shetty leads the movement's worldwide work to end human rights vio lations and has spearheaded a significant move of Amnesty International's work to the global south. Before joining Amnesty International\, he was Di rector of the United Nations Millennium Campaign from 2003 to 2010\, credi ted with significantly increasing awareness of and accountability for the Millennium Development Goals across the world.From 1998 to 2003\, Salil Sh etty was Chief Executive of ActionAid\, a leading international developmen t NGO.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Virtual Event DetailsThis event will be lives treamed on YouTube Live. Attendees registered for this event (link below) will receive a reminder for the livestream fifteen minutes before the even t along with a link to the YouTube page where you can participate in the l ive chat and ask questions during the event.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T143000 LAST-MODIFIED:20201106T145458Z LOCATION:Virtual Event (Registration Required) SUMMARY:The Human Rights Movement and the Struggle for Economic Justice Tod ay URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR