8:30-9:15am: Registration
9:30am: Welcome
Speaker:
- Robert Barchi, President, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
9:45am: Keynote
Speakers:
- Radhika Balakrishnan, Center for Women's Global Leadership
- Anthony Romero, American Civil Liberties Union
Moderator:
10:30am-12:30pm: Women’s Rights
Panelists:
- Charlotte Bunch, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Patricia Guerrero, Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas
pdf Abstract - Bernedette Muthien, Coalition of African Lesbians
Abstract: pdf J pdf aywalking the Freeway of Love - Anita Nayar, United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
Moderator:
- Zakia Salime, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30-3:00pm: Poverty and Inequality
Panelists:
- Ejim Dike, US Human Rights Network
- Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network
- Ignacio Saiz, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
Moderator:
- Savi Bisnath, Center for Women's Global Leadership
3:15-4:45pm: Human Rights, Democracy, and Right to Development
Panelists:
- Noura Erakat, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Abstract: pdf The Right to Development & the Arab Uprisings: Insisting Upon Human-Centered Development
Talk: Part 1, Part 2 - Norma Maldonado, Asociacion Raxch' och' Oxlaju Aj (Tierra Verde 13 Aj)
pdf Abstract - Atieno Ndomo, United Nations Millennium Campaign
Abstract: pdf Post 2015: Towards an agenda for structural transformation and a rights-based, just, accountable and sustainable paradigm of development
Moderator:
- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
4:45-5:30pm: Closing
- Abena Busia, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
