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2008
the
Carr Center Celebrates
the
60^th Anniversary
of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Each week from September 17, 2008 - April 29, 2009, our weekly speaker series invited a guest expert to examine one of the Declaration's 30 articles in depth. The presentations were relaxed affairs, done at lunchtime, and guests were invited to bring their lunch or take advantage of pizza and salad, complements of the Carr Center. All the presentations took place in the Carr Center conference room (Rubenstein 219).

Schedule of Presentations:

Date	Topic	Speaker

September 17, 2008	Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.	Manuel Duarte de Oliveira IHSIS
September 24, 2008	Article 2 The right to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration.	Andrea Rossi Director, Carr Center Measurement and Human Rights Program
October 1, 2008	Article 3 The right to life, liberty and security of person.	Frances Kamm Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
October 8, 2008	Article 4 The right to freedom from slavery or servitude; Prohibition of slavery and the slave trade in all forms.	Donna Hughes University of Rhode Island
October 15, 2008	Article 5 The right to freedom from torture as well as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.	Philip Heyman Harvard Law School
October 22, 2008	Article 6 The right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.	Aisling Reidy Human Rights Watch
October 29, 2008	Article 7 The right to equaity before the law, and to equal protection of the law.	Dan Kuwali 2008-09 Carr Center Fellow
November 12, 2008	Article 9 The right to not be subjected to arbitrary arrest.	Fatima Tlisova Nieman Fellow
November 19, 2008	Article 11 The right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty.	Christopher Stone Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice; Faculty Chair, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
December 3, 2008	Article 14 The right to asylum from persecution.	Jacqueline Bhabha Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer, Law at Harvard Law School; Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
January 28, 2009	Article 13 The right to free movement into and out of a country.	Maria Green Assistant Professor of Human rights and Development, Brandeis University
February 4, 2009	Article 16 The right to marriage and family.	Marc Solomon Executive Director, Mass Equality
February 11, 2009	Article 17 Right to own property. more >	Max Likin Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University
February 18, 2009	Article 21 The right to participate in government and free elections.	Leonardo Vivas 2008-09 Carr Center Fellow
February 25, 2009	Article 20 The right of peaceful assembly and association.	Radwan Ziadeh 2008-09 Carr Center Fellow
March 4, 2009	Article 19 Freedon of opinion and information more >	Michael O'Flaherty Professor of Applied Human Rights & Co-Director, Human Rights Centre, University of Nottingham; Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
March 11, 2009	Article 23 The right to desirable work and to join trade unions.	Martha Chen Lecturer in Public Policy, Coordinator, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
March 18, 2009	Article 25 The right to an adaquate standard of living. View Event Video! > more >	Howard Zinn Professor Political Science, Emeritus, Boston University
April 1, 2009	Article 26 The right to education. more >	Martha Davis Teaches Women's Rights Lawyering, Constitutional Law and Professional Responsibility, Northeastern University School of Law; Faculty Director, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
April 8, 2009	Article 28 The right to a social order that articulates this document.	Beth Simmons Director, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
April 15, 2009	Article 27 The right to participate in the cultural life of the community.	Stephen Marks Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, HSPH

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