This is a one day conference to commemorate Martin Luther King’s “The Other America” in his 1967 speech at Stanford, and heed that speech’s call to create a more just world.
Mark Gonnerman, director of the Aurora Forum introduces the event by noting that economic justice is the main theme of King’s legacy. He references King’s […]
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Amartya Sen at the Aurora Forum at Stanford University: Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty
Published April 5th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights, Talks, Economics and Conferences. 0 CommentsA Test of the Internet’s Free Speech Promise: China and Tibet
Published March 25th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world, Media and Human Rights. 0 CommentsI haven’t seen any evidence that the internet was an important facilitator of the organization of the protests in Tibet, but citizen reporting on the events in Lhasa beginning March 10 made heavy use of the internet. The interesting question is whether perspectives other than the official view are getting through to discussions inside China. […]
Book Review: “Development as Freedom” by Amartya Sen
Published March 18th, 2008 in Book Reviews, Developing world, Statistics, Human Rights and Economics. 0 CommentsWhat is a developed country? According to Sen, development should be measured by how much freedom a country has since without freedom people cannot make the choices that allow them to help themselves and others. He defines freedom as an interdependent bundle of:
1) political freedom and civil rights,
2) economic freedom including opportunities to get credit,
3) […]
Implementing a Human Rights Policy at the World Bank
Published March 17th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights and Talks. 0 CommentsGalit Safarty gave a talk at Harvard Law School today titled: Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank. Sarfaty obtained her JD from Yale and is a lawyer and anthropologist. She is a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and writing her dissertation based on […]
Recently the Berkman Internet and Democracy group hosted a conference on Digital Activism in Istanbul. One of the attendees was Patrick Ball, Chief Scientist and Director of the Human Rights program at Benetech. His work was the focus of a story in the February 17 edition of New York Times Magazine. The article was called […]
