Dodd Human Rights Impact

Friday, January 29, 2021
12:30-2:00 p.m. EST
Virtual Event

Please join us for a lunchtime seminar with Professor Michael Ashley Stein entitled: "Disability and Social Rights"

The struggles by persons with disabilities for social and economic justice have been articulated increasingly within a rights framework. The most prominent expression of this strategy was the adoption in 2006 by the United Nations of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a holistic human rights treaty that contains not only civil and political rights, but also recognizes economic and social rights. Such rights are essential for the more than one billion persons with disabilities worldwide, eighty percent of whom live in the developing world and regularly experience material and social exclusion. These challenges are equally present within developed countries, for example the unemployment rate in the United States among working age adults with disabilities is currently nearing eighty percent. The turn towards international human rights raises a number of questions and challenges: How is disability social rights accommodated within moral and political theory? How does disability theory dovetail with existing and potential social rights theory, jurisprudence, and practice? How are international disability rights and norms translated into diverse social, economic, and cultural contexts? What are the key obstacles and dilemmas to the implementation of disability social rights? What potential opportunities and restrictions might arise from pursuing justice through disability social rights?

Professor Michael Ashley Stein is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School since 2005. Considered one of the world’s leading experts on disability law and policy, Dr Stein participated in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; works with disabled peoples’ organizations and non-governmental organizations around the world; actively consults with governments on their disability laws and policies; advises a number of UN bodies and national human rights institutions; and has brought landmark disability rights litigation globally. For additional information, see: https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11148/Stein 

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This event is co-sponsored by the Research Group on Economic and Social Rights, the Human Rights Institute, and the Research Program on Global Health and Human Rights.

Tuesday, February 2, 2021
12:30-1:45 p.m. EST
Virtual Event

Please join the Human Rights Institute for a lunchtime seminar with Michael Rubin entitled: "Social Cohesion and Community Displacement in Armed Conflict: Evidence from Palestinian Villages in the 1948 War."

During armed conflict, why do some communities evacuate their village to evade civilian-targeted violence, while others remain despite the risks? We argue that community social cohesion, by facilitating collective action, enhances communities’ ability to mobilize preemptive evacuation to escape exposure to conflict violence. The argument is tested in the context of the 1948 War in Mandate Palestine (Israel’s independence/Palestinian al-Nakba) drawing upon detailed historical accounts of displacement in each Arab Palestinian village in which it occurred (Khalidi and Elmusa 1992; Morris 1987) and new original data coded from archival material that records pre-war social, political, and economic conditions in Arab Palestinian villages. Click here for the full paper: https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/article-details/5f8ee55ca0f2a70019ceef47

Dr. Michael Rubin is an Asst. Research Professor in the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the Schools of Engineering and Business in support of the university’s Engineering for Human Rights Initiative and Business and Human Rights Initiative. His research investigates armed conflict processes and political violence, informing policy solutions to reduce the human suffering they generate. For more information, please visit Michael’s personal website: http://www.michaelarubin.com/.

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This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Institute, Global Affairs, Middle East Studies, Judaic Studies, and the Political Science Department.

Thursday, February 18, 6:00-8:00pm

Hosted by the Hartford History Center at Hartford Public Library

When was the first time you got down on the dance floor, sprayed paint on an outdoor wall, or listened to rap on the radio? Maybe hip hop has never really been part of your life. Hip Hop is a global arts movement that was started by Black and Puerto Rican youth in the early 1970s in the South Bronx as a response to the criminalization of youth, the lack of quality education supports, and the burning down of dilapidated housing neglected by property owners and the New York City government. These young people took their situation and flipped it into dance, visual arts, and music, which they shared at community block parties to tell their stories and express their realities. Join us to explore the origins of hip hop culture through short readings, small-group dialogue, and engagement with cultural specialists.

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Co-hosted by the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative of the Dodd Human Rights Impact and UConn’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion.

For more information and a link to register, visit:
https://democracyanddialogues.dodd.uconn.edu/2021/01/13/02-18-21-origins-of-hip-hop/

Spring 2021 Heinz and Virginia Herrmann Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights and the Life Sciences: "Accountability in Global Health: An Historical Perspective"

A lecture by Dr. Randall Packard, PhD
William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Monday February 22, 2021

To whom are the designers and implementers of global health programs accountable? How have patterns of accountability changed over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries? What kinds of mechanisms, metrics, and evidence have been used to account for, or demonstrate the results of, health interventions? What counts as success or failure? These are the questions to be examined in this talk, which will trace the history of accountability in global health over the past century.

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