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    2018 Apr 04

    Alone Together: A Panel Discussion on International Roma Day

    5:00pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Starr Auditorium, 79 JKF Street, Cambridge MA
    A panel discussion marking International Roma Day with:
    • Jacqueline Bhabha, Director of Research, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
    • Margareta Matache, Instructor, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
    • Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard Divinity School

    APRIL 4th, 2018 | 5-6:30pm | Starr Auditorium | Harvard Kennedy School

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    Businesses, Guns, and Human Rights
    Patricia Illingworth. 3/22/2018. “Businesses, Guns, and Human Rights.” The Hastings Center. See full text.Abstract

    The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla, resulted in the deaths of 17 people.

    Tragically, from January 1 to March 21, 2018, there were 3,088 gun-related deaths and 5,355 gun-related injuries in the United States. Gun violence is a public health problem. But it’s also a human rights problem.  It is time to turn to international human rights and moral and social norms, which ground obligations for individuals and business organizations to limit gun ownership.

    Human rights are entitlements that all people have by virtue of their humanity. Gun violence puts a number of human rights at risk. Most obviously, it threatens Article 6 of the United Nation’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: “Every human being has the inherent right to life.” Studies show that the mere presence of guns increases the probability of crime, suicide, and accidents.

    Ethics asks us to promote the good and to prevent harm to others, especially when we can do so with little inconvenience to ourselves. Individuals are not alone in having moral responsibilities. In the eyes of the law, corporations are persons; they also have moral responsibilities. Businesses that manufacture guns have a moral responsibility to ensure that their products are not used in acts of violence. Businesses are also subject to the far more demanding obligations of international human rights.

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    2018 Apr 11

    Study Group on North Korean Human Rights - "From Pyongyang to Pyongchang and Back: Engagement, Security, and Human Rights"

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Littauer 324 (Fainsod Room), HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    This study group, led by Carr Center Fellow, Jung-Hoon Lee, is open to all. It will meet three times during the spring, 2018 semester:

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    2018 Mar 29

    Study Group on North Korean Human Rights - "North Korean Human Rights: Where are we Now?"

    3:00pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Littauer 324 (Fainsod Room), HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    This study group, led by Carr Center Fellow and Inaugural Ambassador for North Korean Human Rights, Jung-Hoon Lee, is open to all. It will meet three times during the spring, 2018 semester:

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    2018 Apr 04

    Pollak Lecture Series with Richard Locke -- Labor Problem: Can we Create Just Supply Chains in the Global Economy?

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Wiener Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    On April 4, the Pollak Lecture Series will feature a lecture by Provost Richard Locke of Brown University. Richard M. Locke is provost and Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and Public and International Affairs at Brown University. Before joining Brown in 2014 as the director of the Watson Institution for International and Public Affairs, he had been a member of the MIT faculty of 25 years, including serving as chair of the...

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    2018 Apr 18

    The Fierce Urgency of Now Speaker Series: Secretary Ash Carter - Human Rights and International Security - Some Perspectives from the Pentagon

    1:00pm to 2:15pm

    Location: 

    Wexner 434AB, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Fierce Urgency of Now speaker seriesThe Carr Center is excited to announce its 2018 Speaker Series: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Human Rights in 2018. The series will be faciliated by Professor Mathias Risse.

    At...

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