Catalysts for Change: How the UN's Independent Experts Promote Human Rights
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:10 PM EDT
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JGH 106
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Please join HRI for a lunch time discussion with Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program, and Ted Piccone, a CLS graduate and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, on the role of UN special procedures in working with advocacy efforts and promoting human rights.
Ted is a senior fellow and deputy director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. His latest book, Catalysts for Change: How the UN's Independent Experts Promote Human Rights (Brookings Institution Press, 2012) examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the United Nations’
most important human rights mechanisms—the collection of independent
experts known as special procedures—as they negotiate the rocky terrain
where rights meet reality. These independent experts serve as the eyes
and ears of the UN human rights system. Despite their prolific work as
experts and advocates, however, there has been no empirical study of
their impact at the national level—until now. This book provides
concrete evidence of why the system works and ways it can be improved.
Jamil is the director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program, which is dedicated to holding the U.S. government accountable to its
international human rights obligations and commitments. HRP uses a
human rights framework to complement existing ACLU legal and
legislative advocacy, and to advance social justice in the areas of
national security, immigrants' rights, women's rights, racial justice,
death penalty and children’s rights. Jamil will speak about the ACLU's experience working with UN Independent Experts domestically.
