Human Rights Limits to Privatization - Conférence Humphrey avec Philip Alston
Le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique vous invite une conférence Humphrey en droits de la personne avec Philip G. Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. Il parlera de privatisation dans le contexte des droits de la personne.
Résumé
[En anglais seulement] Privatization is generally presented as a technical solution for managing resources and reducing fiscal deficits, but in fact, it is an integral part of an economic and social philosophy of governance. Key international actors such as the World Bank and the IMF now promote it aggressively without regard to its human rights implications or consequences, while most human rights bodies have either ignored the phenomenon or assumed that tweaking existing procedures provides an adequate response.
The lecture will explore the ways in which human rights proponents need to fundamentally reconsider their approach to this issue.
Le conférencier
[En anglais seulement] Philip Alston teaches international law, international criminal law, and a range of human rights subjects. In 2014, he was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as its Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. From 2004 to 2010, he was UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, undertaking official missions around the world. He has also been on the Independent International Commission on Kyrgyzstan (2011) and the UN Group of Experts on Darfur (2007) and served as Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals (2002-07); chairperson (1991-98) and rapporteur (1987-91) of the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; and UNICEF’s Senior Legal Adviser on children’s rights (1986-92)
Les conférences Humphrey
La Conférence annuelle John Peters Humphrey en droits de la personne a été créée en 1988 afin de souligner le 40e anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies, dont la première ébauche fut rédigée par John Humphrey (BCL 1928), professeur de droit à McGill.
Une demande d'accréditation pour 1,5h de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes a été déposée auprès d'un dispensateur reconnu.