Sponsored by the Rights and Justice Research Priority Area, the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies and the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre.
The concept of human security has been part of the global lexicon since the release of the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 Human Development Report. Issues of rights and justice go to the heart of the human security agenda, which recognises that all people have the right to live in freedom and dignity, free from poverty and despair. But what does this mean in practice for those who are the forefront of thinking about and delivering human security? In this public event, Professor Lorraine Elliott will be in conversation with scholar-practitioners whose work is about translating these key ideas into practice.
Moderator
Professor Lorraine Elliott, Professor of International Relations, The Australian National University; Chair, Academic Council on the UN System; and Associate, Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies, The University of Nottingham
Participants
Dr Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, IE Law School Madrid, specializes in international human rights law. She has worked with the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Mexico City Human Rights Commission, UN Women/Mexican Supreme Court, and the Brussels-based think-tank Case Matrix Network of the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.
Dr Surendra K Shrestha is Executive Director of Group of Helping Hands (SAHAS) Nepal, an NGO devoted to building a culture of peace and creating an enabling environment for sustaining community development activities.
Dr Vanessa Pupavac, School of Politics and International Relations at The University of Nottingham, previously worked for the UN Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Her current research encompasses international human rights, children's rights, linguistic rights and global disaster protection.
Mary Storrie is Director of the Rosie May Foundation, an organisation that sets up and maintains sustainable and meaningful projects for children and young adults in crisis as well as developing effective community relations.
Free and open to all, but please register.
The evening will begin with a reception at 5.15pm in the foyer area outside room A42, Sir Clive Granger Building.
