[IMC] Please Announce: "Can Globalization Promote Human Rights" this Friday, March 30

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PRESENTED BY THE UNIVERSITY YMCA

1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

CREATIVE APPROACHES TO GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

Every Friday @ 12 noon

Can Globalization Promote Human Rights?

Rhoda  Howard- Hassman, Canada Research Chair in International Human  Rights  (2003);
Professor, Department of Global Studies and Balsillie  School of  International 
Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University

Many human rights activists and scholars  assume that globalization can only have
negative effects on human  rights.  Referring to economic, social and legal aspects
of  globalization, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann argues that it may also have  positive 
effects.

This  semester's free, public lectures will offer speakers who are   positioned 
to explore the challenges and opportunities of global development.

ALL LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Y THAI LUNCH TICKETS: $6.00/3.00 student
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SPEAKER INFORMATION
Rhoda Howard-Hassmann is  Canada Research Chair in International  Human Rights at
Wilfrid   Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, where she  holds a joint   appointment
in the Department of Global Studies and the  Balsillie   School of International
 Affairs. She is also a Senior Research  Fellow   at the Centre for International
Governance Innovation in  Waterloo, and   Professor Emerita at McMaster University.
She holds a  Ph.D. in   Sociology from McGill University (1976), and is a Fellow
 of the  Royal   Society of Canada. In 2006 she was named the first Distinguished
   Scholar of Human Rights by the Human Rights Section, American Political    Science
Association. She originated and directed McMaster's now  defunct   undergraduate
 minor Theme School on International Justice and  Human   Rights (1993-99).

Dr. Howard-Hassmann is the author of Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (1978),
Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa (1986), Human Rights and the Search for Community
(1995), Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (2003), Reparations
to Africa (2008), and The Second Great Transformation: Human Rights Leapfrogging
 in the Era of Globalization (forthcoming 2010). She is also co-editor of an International
Handbook of Human Rights (1987); Economic Rights in Canada and the United States
 (2006); and The Age of Apology: Facing up to the Past (2007). Compassionate Canadians
was named 2004 Outstanding Book in Human Rights by the Human Rights   Section, American
Political Science Association; Economic Rights in   Canada and the United States
 was named a notable book for 2008 by the   United States Human Rights Network, 
a coalition of 200 non-governmental   organizations. Dr. Howard-Hassmann has also
published numerous articles   and book chapters on human rights and development 
in Africa; women's   rights; gay and lesbian rights; Canadian foreign and refugee
policy; and   theoretical, methodological and sociological issues in international
  and Canadian human rights. Her current research interests include human   security
and state-induced famine.

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