Events
As a part of ASAP\’s Impact: Global Poverty initiative, leaders of poverty and global justice research centers around the world gathered at Yale October 18-20, 2013 for the ASAP-sponsored conference, Human Rights & Economic Justice: Essential Elements of the Post-MDG Agenda. Each of them was asked to give a short presentation on how they have pursued positive impact on poverty alleviation policy and practice, very broadly construed. The PowerPoint and Prezi presentations they prepared for this purpose are below.
Lessons from Campaigns of Civil Resistance for the Battle Against Illicit Financial Flows: Adding Citizens to the Global Financial Integrity Equation by Peter Ackerman, Founding Chair of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict and Shaazka Beyerle, Senior Advisor to the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict
Access to Medicines: Barriers Relating to Intellectual Property Rights and Data Exclusivity by Julian Cockbain, Consultant European patent attorney, and Sigrid Sterckx, Professor of Ethics at Ghent University
Contesting the Frame: Engaging with South Africa\’s Anti-Poverty Consensus by Andries du Toit, Director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape
Putting Universalism to the Service of Global Justice: Can Two-Tiered Social Services Be Avoided? by Juliana MartÃnez Franzoni, Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica
Impact at Just World Institute by Tim Hayward, Director of the Just World Institute at the University of Edinburgh
Could the Post-2015 Development Agenda Promote Poverty Eradication as an International Social Norm? by David Hulme, Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester
Perspectives on Illicit Financial Flows Post-2015: Intergovernmental Organization Perspectives by Gail Hurley, Policy Specialist in Development Finance at the UNDP
Child Poverty and Equity: Concepts, Methods, and Action by Alberto Minujin, Executive Director of Equity for Children at the New School
Academia and Action by Jonathan Morduch, Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative at New York University
Illicit Financial Flows, Poverty, and Human Rights by Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale University
Piloting the Health Impact Fund by Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale University
Successfully Promoting Justice: Closing Address by Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale University
Towards a Global Governance System for Infectious Diseases by Harvey Rubin, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
MDGs, Poverty, and Malnutrition: The Role of Social Inclusion by Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal, Director of the Indian Institute for Dalit Studies
Impact at the Hague Institute for Global Justice by Jill Coster van Voorhout, Researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Impact at Birmingham\’s Center for the Study of Global Ethics by Heather Widdows, Director of the Center for the Study of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham
