2013 News Archive

In the list below, click the date to go to the related news story.

	March 8: Harvard Kennedy School News, Mathias Risse, Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy and core faculty at the Carr Center, argues in a new working paper, "The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth," that humanity's shared possession of our planet provides a philosophical foundation for a right to water and sanitation.
	March 8: The Harvard Gazette, The Carr Center's recent, multi-part event, "Congo's Invisible War," and its associated, on-going exhibition of the work of Finbarr O'Reilly, Reuters chief photographer for West and Central Africa, titled "Congo on the Wire," are well summarized in this discerning review by Harvard's news service.
	February 16: Carr Center Fellow Sharmila Murthy spoke on a panel that examined land and water rights in India at the Harvard HPAIR 2013 Asia Conference. Also on the panel were Namita Wahi and Jasdeep Randhawa. The panel was moderated by Erum Sattar, an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School.
	February 11: India Abroad, Coverage of Carr Center Fellow Siddharth Kara's new book "Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia," continues with this latest article, "Tracking Modern-Day Slavery," appearing in India Abroad.
	February 6: The Harvard Gazette, The Carr Center event highlighting the lack of press freedoms and mistreatment of journalists in Turkey, an event which featured Turkish journalist Ferai Tinc, is picked up by the Harvard news service.
	January 30: In late January, Carr Center Fellow Sharon Weinblum will be a guest speaker at a "Policy Hub" information session before the European Parliament. The topic of her session will be "Prospects of change in Israeli politics."
	January 28: On December 7 and 8, 2012, Professor Mathias Risse of Harvard Kennedy School, Professor Tyler Giannini of Harvard Law School and Sharmila Murthy of the Carr Center organized a thought-provoking inter-disciplinary Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on "The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: From Theory to Practice."
	January 28: Carr Center Fellow Felisa Tibbitts will present the OSCE Guidelines for Human Rights Education in Secondary School Systems at Columbia University Teacher's College, New York City.
	January 26: The Global Post, "Where does a 'moderate' victory in Israel leave the peace process?" Carr Center Fellow Sharon Weinblum comments on how the US remains the key to reopening the issue of Israeli-Palestine talks.
	January 17: Knight Foundation Press Release, Tool for validating news source materials, created by WITNESS, a human rights organization directed by Carr Center faculty affiliate Sam Gregory, one of eight winners of this year's "Knight News Challenge: Mobile." Winners to split $2.4 million Knight Foundation grant award.

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