[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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