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PAST EVENTs - 2009 Archive
December, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
An abridged edition of Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States, will be released by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Like the earlier three set volume, the paperback edition is edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis. For more information, visit >>>
October 23, 2009, Chicago, IL
The Dignity in Schools Campaign, co-founded by NESRI, is co-sponsoring the upcoming ABA Section of Litigation Children’s Rights Litigation Committee Conference, “Raising our Hands: Creating a National Strategy for Children's Right to Education and Counsel.” >>>
October 22 - 24, 2009, Storrs, CT
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa and NESRI Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger will be presenting at the “Human Rights in the USA” conference to be held at the University of Connecticut. Albisa will present on a panel entitled “Economic Rights and Poverty.” Rudiger will present on a panel entitled “Health Care Coverage in the USA through a Human Rights Lense.” For more information, visit >>>
October 15, 2009, New York City
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa and NESRI Board Chair Martha Davis will be speaking on a panel entitled “Poverty and Welfare in the United States - A Human Rights Violation?” The panel will address the application of human rights principles to issues of poverty and social welfare in the United States. The panel takes place from 6 – 8 pm in the Stimson Room of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Building, 42 West 44th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues >>>
October, 2009, U.S.A.
NESRI’s Human Right to Housing Program Director Tiffany Gardner will be a lead coordinator of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing's official visit to the United States.
September 16, 2009, Portland, ME
NESRI Human Right to Health Director, Anja Rudiger, will present a lecture at the community opening of the Center for Community and Public Health at the University of New England. The lecture is entitled "The Role of Human Rights in Health Reform in the U.S." For the event flyer >>>
September 9, 2009, New York City
NESRI Human Right to Education Director, Liz Sullivan, will be speaking on the panel “School and the Criminalization of Youth” at the National H.I.R.E. Network 4th Annual NYS Policy Conference at the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture in Bronx, NY. >>>
August 9 – 15, 2009, Charleston, WV
NESRI staff along with partners CADRE, May Day New Orleans, CIW and FFLIC will be attending the Poverty Initiative’s Poverty Scholars Leadership School. The Leadership School aims to set the basis for reigniting Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign.
July 30, 2009, Washington, DC
NESRI is Cosponsoring “MEDICARE: MADE IN AMERICA” a Rally and Lobby Day in honor of Medicare’s 44th Birthday. Sponsored by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, the rally aims to show Congress and President Obama that unions, doctors, nurses, seniors, faith groups, and Americans of every stripe support national, single-payer healthcare and healthcare as a right for all. For the rally flyer >>> For More Information, visit >>>
July 25 - 30, 2009, New Orleans, LA
NESRI Human Right to Housing Program Director Tiffany M. Gardner will be a member of the official fact-finding mission of the United Nations Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (UNAGFE) to New Orleans, Louisiana. The UNAGFE mission will be investigating the city’s decision to demolish a majority of its public housing stock and the consequent impact on residents’ right to housing.
June 27, 2009, Washington D.C.
NESRI’s Human Right to Health Care Program Director Anja Rudiger will be presenting at a workshop entitled “The Human Rights Framework: Bridging the Gap between Housing and Health” at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council Conference & Symposium.
June 25, 2009, Boston, MA
NESRI Education Program Director Liz Sullivan will co-facilitate a workshop entitled “Code Of Discipline and Human Right Framework Workshop” for the Boston Parent Organizing Network’s (BPON) Parent Task Force. Liz will discuss how a human rights framework can be used to best emphasize the need for COD revisions within the Boston Public Schools. For more information on the workshop >>>
June 5 - 6, 2009, Chicago, IL
NESRI is co-organizing the upcoming national Dignity in Schools Campaign conference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL to bring organizers, advocates, youth, parents, teachers and policy-makers together to strategize regional and national action to promote human rights-based approaches to school climate and discipline. Contact Liz Sullivan to become involved in planning or to attend the conference.
May 28, 2009, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
NESRI staff will present to the Center for Constitutional Rights on the emerging domestic economic and social rights movement and legal mechanisms for enforcement/establishment of economic and social rights.
April 18 - 19, 2009, New Haven, CT
NESRI’s Human Right to Health Program Director Anja Rudiger will be speaking at Unite For Sight’s Global Health Summit on a panel entitled "Rights-Based Approaches to U.S. Health Care Reform." The title of her presentation will be "Toward Equity and Accountability in U.S. Health Care: 10 Human Rights Principles for Health Care Financing." >>>
April 17, 2009, New York, NY
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa will present at “Human Rights and State Law: New Strategies for Economic Justice Advocacy.” The event is co-sponsored by NESRI, Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute, Northeastern School of Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, The American Society for International Law, and the New York City Bar Association's Social Welfare Law Committee. Attendees will be able to obtain NYS CLE credit. See flyer for additional details >>>
April 8, 2009, New York, NY
NESRI Education Program Director Liz Sullivan will speak on the panel "The Current State of Education in the US" at Columbia Law School. She will speak about the national Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) and how federal stimulus dollars for education can be used to promote human rights-based approaches to improving school climate and discipline. Read more about the DSC's policy agenda >>>
April 1, 2009, New York, NY
NESRI’s Executive Director Cathy Albisa and Human Right to Education Program Director Liz Sullivan will speak at the national conference, “Challenging the School to Prison Pipeline: Harms and Remedies,” co-sponsored by the ACLU Racial Justice Program and New York Law School. NESRI staff will speak about the harms of under-resourced public schools and abusive discipline policies, and about human rights-based strategies for creating positive school cultures and effective discipline policies. >>>
March 28, 2009, Boston, MA
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa will present on a panel entitled “Health Care is a Human Right: Realizing the Right to Health in the United States,” at Seizing the Moment, Building the Movement, the 2009 Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting. >>>
March 5, 6 pm, 2009, New York, NY
NESRI Executive Director Cathy Albisa will speak at an ACLU roundtable discussion being held in conjunction with the 53rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The discussion will focus on domestic human rights opportunities for women under the Obama administration. The event will take place at the United Nations Church Center at 777 United Nations Plaza.
February 20, 2009, New Haven, CT
NESRI’s Human Right to Work with Dignity Research Fellow, Kate Caldwell, will present on a panel entitled “Trafficking and Exploitation in U.S. Labor Markets” at Reblaw 2009: The 15th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference >>>
January 23, 2009, New York, NY
NESRI’s Human Right to Education Program Director Liz Sullivan will present on the panel “Prevention: In More Places Than You Think” at the conference, New Directions for New York: a Public Health & Safety Approach to Drug Policy, organized by the Drug Policy Alliance and the New York Academy of Medicine. >>>
January 11 - 13, 2009, New Orleans, LA
NESRI's Cathy Albisa and Liz Sullivan will travel to New Orleans to participate in the US Human Rights Fund's Global Strategy Exchange Convening. They will be joined by NESRI partners Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Maisie Chin of CADRE, Sam Jackson of May Day New Orleans, and staff from Friends and Families of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC). For more information >>>
January 9, 2009, San Diego, CA
NESRI board member Rhonda Copelon, Professor of Law, City University of New York Law School, will receive the M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award at the 2009 Annual Awards Dinner of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT).
January 7, 2009, New York, NY
NESRI Human Right to Housing Director Tiffany M. Gardner and John Derek Norvell of Concerned Citizens of Greater Harlem will present on a panel entitled "Poverty Scholars and Religious Leaders Roundtable" at the January 2009 Immersion Course of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary.
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