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The Future of Human Rights - Keynote Lecture with Professor Alison Brysk
19 March 2019, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm
This keynote lecture with Professor Alison Brysk outlines a strategy for reclaiming human rights in a post-liberal world.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Global Governance Institute
Location
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Bedford Way (26) G0326 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0DS
Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet are needed now more than ever. We stand at a crossroads between expansion and contraction of rights: new voices, spaces, and pathways contrast with declining democracies, a deepening citizenship gap, and regression in the international regime. How can we secure a pragmatic future for human rights, based on evolving political practice? This keynote lecture will outline a strategy for reclaiming rights in a post-liberal world: reframing, mobilizing, bridging, and contesting rights struggles.
About the Speaker
Alison Brysk
Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at University of California
Alison Brysk is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author or editor of fourteen books on human rights, including Speaking Rights to Power, From Tribal Village to Global Village, Human Rights and Private Wrongs, and most recently Contesting Violence Against Women (Oxford University Press). Professor Brysk has been a Fulbright Professor in Canada and India, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Distinguished Scholar in Human Rights of the International Studies Association as well as the American Political Science Association and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018. She has lectured throughout Latin America, Asia, Europe, Australia and South Africa.
