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PAST EVENTs - 2008 Archive
December 18, 2008, National
The Dignity in Schools Campaign hosted the teleconference call How Students with Disabilities are Being Pushed Out of School. >>>
December 15 - 16, 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
Maisie Chin, Executive Director of CADRE, NESRI’s partner organization, was invited by the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues to speak at the UN Forum on Minorities and Education in Geneva. >>>
December 13, 2008, Burlington, VT
NESRI Health Director Anja Rudiger presented at The Vermont Workers' Center Ella Baker Human Rights Conference to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and civil rights organizer Ella Baker's birthday. Topics included health care, workers' rights, livable wages, housing, education, childcare, the war, undoing racism, women's rights, LGBTQ rights and more. >>>
December 10, 7:30 pm, 2008, New York, NY
“Un Centavo Mas, One Penny More:” Presentation by NESRI partner Coalition of Immokalee Workers at the Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th St. See flyer >>>
December 10, 7:30 pm, 2008, New York, NY
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa appeared on a panel at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center entitled "A Concert Celebration: 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." >>>
December 9, 7pm, 2008, New York, NY
Members of NESRI Partner the Coalition of Immokalee Workers made a community presentation entitled “Human Rights and Fair Food.” The event happened at the Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall at 239 Thompson Street.
December 9, 2008, Boston, MA
3:30 - 5:00 pm, 230 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University School of Law
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa appeared on a panel entitled "Sixty Years of Human Rights: Why the Universal Declaration Still Matters." >>>
7:00 - 9:00 pm, 287 Columbus Avenue
NESRI co-organized a panel entitled "The Human Rights Movement in the Obama Era: Prospects for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the United States." The panel featured NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa, NESRI Board Chair and Northeastern School of Law Professor Martha Davis, and Jason Disterhoft of Amnesty International USA. >>>
December 8, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, 2008, Boston, MA
NESRI co-sponsored a Town Hall Meeting entitled "HIV/AIDS & the Right to Health: Leadership in the US and Globally." The event was organized by Physicians for Human Rights, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Partners in Health and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights and commemorates World AIDS Day and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. >>>
December 6, 2008, New York, NY
NESRI/NHeLP Human Right to Health Director Anja Rudiger presented at the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition’s NYC-Wide Single-Payer Teach-In. PHIMG is a New York City-based activist coalition of over two dozen organizations working to secure health care as a human right and to end the nation's health care crisis. >>>
December 5 - 6, 2008, Hyde Park, NY
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa spoke at a plenary "Upholding Economic and Social Rights at Home" and NESRI Health Director Anja Rudiger particpated in a panel entitled "Access to Health" at the "Bringing Human Rights Home" conference marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Roosevelt Institute. >>>
December, 2008, Northeast USA
In December, members of NESRI’s partner the Coalition of Immokalee Workers along with their allies in the Fair Food Alliance embarked on a 10-day tour through the Northeast. The tour was aimed at bringing public attention to the exploitation of farmworkers in the Florida's tomato fields. The tour culminated in New York City on December 10th, International Human Rights Day. There were meetings with local student, faith, labor, and community groups on December 9th and 10th. >>>
November 21, 2008, Washington DC
NESRI/NHeLP Human Right to Health Director Anja Rudiger presented at the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association (NLADA) Conference “Creating Change, Achieving Justice.” >>>
November 18, 7 pm, 2008, Staten Island, NY
Sharon and Angela Jasper, members of NESRI partner May Day New Orleans, presented at the Center for the Arts, Recital Hall, College of Staten Island/CUNY, on the panel From New Orleans to New York: Race, Class, Gender, and the Struggle for Affordable Housing. >>>
November 16 - 19, 2008, Boston, MA
NESRI Housing Director Tiffany M. Gardner presented at the University of Massachusetts's international conference on "Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters" >>>
November 16, 2008, Harpers Ferry, WV
NESRI Education Director Liz Sullivan spoke at the Amnesty International Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Educate to Activate: Building a Human Rights Movement for All >>>
October 27, 1 - 2pm, 2008, New York, NY
NESRI/NHeLP Human Right to Health Director Anja Rudiger presented on WBAI's "Health Action" program to talk about NESRI's human rights framework for health care and the recent report on the Presidential candidates' health care proposals.
October 26 - 29, 2008, San Diego, CA
NESRI/NHeLP Human Right to Health Director Anja Rudiger presented at the 136th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition. Her presentation was entitled, "Human right to health care in the United States: Toward a normative and analytical framework for policy change" >>>
October 22, 2008, Chapel Hill, NC
NESRI/NHeLP Human Right to Health Director Anja Rudiger presented "Presidential Nominees' Health Plans Fail to Meet Human Rights Standards: A Human Rights Framework for Health Care Reform" as part of the Human Rights Series at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
October 22, 2008, New York, NY
NESRI and Teachers Unite hosted the forum, Teachers Talk: School Culture, Safety and Students’ Rights. The forum presented the findings from our teacher surveys on discipline policies in NYC schools and advocated policy reform to promote school safety with dignity and to guarantee the human right to education. >>>
October 19, 2008, Detroit, MI
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa presented on a panel at th National Lawyers Guild "Law for the People" Convention. >>>
September 23, 2 - 5pm, 2008, New York, NY
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa served as a juror for the women's tribunal at the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP). The tribunal will be a part of an all day poverty hearing that GCAP and the focus will be on women and poverty in the North, and particularly in New York City.
September 18, 2008, National
NESRI Education Director Liz Sullivan presented on the U.S. Human Rights Network Membership Skills Building Conference Call, Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline through Human Rights >>>
September 17, 3 - 5 pm, 2008, Cambridge, MA
NESRI Board Member Paul Farmer moderated a panel to celebrate Health and Human Rights: An International Journal. Panelists included: Philip Alston Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU Law School; Agnes Binagwaho, Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission; and Gavin Yamey, Senior Editor at PLoS Medicine. The event took place from 3-5pm at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA, and was free and open to the public.
September 9, 2008, Austin, TX
Whole Foods Market, the world’s leading natural and organic foods supermarket and NESRI partner the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the Florida-based farm worker organization spearheading the growing Campaign for Fair Food, announced today that the two will work in partnership to help improve wages and working conditions for Florida tomato pickers. According to an agreement signed this week, Whole Foods Market will support the CIW’s “penny-per-pound” approach for tomatoes purchased from Florida, with the goal of passing these additional funds on to the harvesters. >>>
August 14, 2008, New York, NY
NESRI and the Student Safety Coalition rallied at New York City Hall for students’ human right to safety with dignity in school >>>
August 2, 2008, New Orleans, LA
NESRI Housing Director Tiffany M. Gardner conducted a human rights training for May Day New Orleans, a public housing resident organization founded by Sam Jackson, a member of NESRI's Katrina/Tsunami transnational exchange. May Day is committed to ensuring that New Orleans officials honor the promised one for one replacement of the recently demolished public housing complexes, as well as ensuring full participation by residents in the city’s rebuilding process.
July 24, 2008, National
The Dignity in Schools Campaign held a national conference call, "How Immigrant Students Are Being Pushed Out of School." Find out more information about the call. >>>
June 26, 2008, New York, NY
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa participated in a panel discussion on “The Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis: Root Causes and Responses”. This is an installment of the New Human Rights Dialogue Series, a collaborative initiative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the NGO Committee on Human Rights, the DPI and Member States, leading up to the commemoration on December 10, 2008 of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All panels are available on a webcast.
June 3, 2008, New York, NY
The Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyer’s Network had a reception to celebrate the publishing of a three volume series, Bringing Human Rights Home. Several members of NESRI's staff and board contributed to this publication. To order the book through NESRI call 212.253.1785.
June 1, 2008, Princeton, NJ
NESRI Board Member and Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer delivered the Baccalaureate address for Princeton University.
May 17, 2008, New Orleans, LA
NESRI Board Member and Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer delivered the commencement address for Tulane Medical School.
May 13, 2008, Shrewsbury, MA
NESRI Board Member and Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer spoke at Saint John's High School for the Abdella Center for Ethics Lecture
May 2, 2008, New Haven, CT
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa presented on a panel about using international human rights law in everyday legal aid cases. >>>
April 26, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
NESRI along with Healthcare NOW! and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign hosted a one day conference on the human right to healthcare >>>
April 24, 2008, Washington, DC
The U.S. government recently filed a report to the United Nations on the nation's progress toward the elimination of racial discrimination. The U.N. CERD Committee agreed with some aspects of the report but noted that the United States has failed to recognize and remedy instances where facially-neutral policies contribute to inequality in health and health care.
To address these issues, several NGOs and scholars, prepared a "shadow" report, Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States. There was a panel discussion, moderated by Brian Smedley of The Opportunity Agenda, which featured presentations from Steve Hitov of the National Health Law Program and others, and toke place on April 24 from 1:30pm - 3:00pm in room HC-8 of the Capitol.
April 17 - 20, 2008, Chicago, IL
The US Human Rights Network hosted their 2008 Human Rights Conference. >>>
April 17, 2008, Boston, MA
NESRI Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger
presented as part of the workshop on "Who should be responsible for health insurance: Individuals, employers or society?" at the Raising Women's Voices National Conference. >>>
April 12, 2008, Storrs, CT
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa participated in a workshop on the Indivisibility and Interdependence of Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. >>>
April 3, 2008, Boston, MA
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa and NESRI Board Member Martha Davis participated in a panel on human rights in the United States >>>
March 25, 2008, New York, NY
Anja Rudiger, NESRI Human Right to Health Program Director spoke at a Public Policy Community Education Forum on the human right to health. >>>
March 24 – 28, 2008, New York, NY
Liz Sullivan, NESRI Education Program Director, participated in the panel “Framing Dropouts Revisited” at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference. >>>
March 21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa spoke at the Edward V. Sparer Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. >>>
March 19, 2008, Eugene, OR
There was a seminar entitled, Public Interest Law at Work: Advancing Economic and Social Rights at the University of Oregon. >>>
March 18, 2008, Washington, DC
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa spoke at the Take Back America 2008 Conference. The session is titled, "Addressing Race: Race in American Life & Politics." >>>
March 15, 2008, Boston, MA
NESRI's Human Right to Education Program Director Liz Sullivan presented at a Human Rights Conference hosted by the International Law Society at Suffolk University. >>>
March 15, 2008, New York, NY
Cathy Albisa, NESRI Executive Director, participated in a panel discussion at the Left Forum entitled, "Radicalizing Rights: Bringing Human Rights Home" about using the language of international human rights to mobilize people for economic and social justice within the United States. >>>
March 8, 2008, Cambridge, MA
At the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program Annual Conference, "The United States and Human Rights: Bringing Rights Home" Tiffany Gardner, Director of NESRI's Legal Program and Katrina Project participated in a panel discussion on "Acknowledging the Right to Livelihood." >>>
February 23, 2008, New Orleans, LA – NESRI held a training workshop on the Right to Education and the School to Prison Pipeline for local organizers with the Families & Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC). >>>
February 20, 2008, National – The Dignity In Schools campaign held a national conference call, "Charter Schools and Push Out: Reflections on the Transformation of Public Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans" Find out more information on how to join the call! >>>
February 19, 2008, Helena, MT, 6PM – NESRI/NHeLP Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger presented, "Health Care is Our Right: Assessing the Presidential Candidates’ Health Care Proposals" at St. Paul’s Methodist Church (Choir Room). Free and Open to the Public.
February 7, 2008, Cleveland, OH – NESRI Board Member Paul Farmer spoke on Global Health Equity as part of the Town Hall of Cleveland lecture series. >>>
January 15, 2008, Washington, DC – NESRI Board Member Lisa Crooms was on a panel discussion, "Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities " >>>
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