Event Type - Workshop

Date - 14 September, 2010
Venue –
Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC, USA

The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Bridging the Divide

On September 14, the Managing Global Insecurity Project at Brookings hosted a conversation on the Millennium Development Goals and their relationship with human rights, featuring remarks by Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International. He was joined by Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and Professor Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University to discuss what role international human rights law can play in helping to address uneven progress toward meeting the goals for the world’s poor. The panelists also considered how the United States and other governments can address this issue.

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