Women and Public Policy Program Research Seminar

Co-sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

   

“Gender and Human Rights”

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

         

Agenda

   

Organized by Iris Bohnet

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

 

All seminar events will be held in the Taubman Building, Fifth Floor

John F. Kennedy School of Government

79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge

   

Format: Presenter - 30 minutes; Discussant - 10 minutes; General Discussion - 20 minutes

    

1:00pm                                      Coffee, tea and dessert

   

1:15pm                                      Welcome by Iris Bohnet

                         

1:30 – 2:30pm                            Martha Nussbaum

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics

The University of Chicago Law School

   

“Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: the Case of Gender”

     

Chair:  Frances Kamm

  

Discussant:  Frederick Schauer

 

2:30 – 2:45pm                            Break

                                               

2:45 – 3:45pm                            Kelly Dawn Askin

                                                Senior Legal Officer in International Justice

The Open Society Justice Initiative

   

“Empowering Women Through International Tribunals”

                                                     

Chair: Jane Mansbridge

 

Discussant:  Michael Blake

 

3:45 – 4:00pm                            Break                                                                                      

 

4:00 – 5:00pm                            Jacqueline Bhabha

Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies                                                    

“Gendered Chattels: Imported Child Labour and the Response to Child Trafficking”         

 

Chair:  Iris Bohnet

 

Discussant: Frances Kamm

 

5:00 – 5:30pm                            Concluding remarks

 

5:30 – 6:30pm                            Reception