HRLC Event - TWAIL and the United Nations

TWAIL and the UN

This event aims to discuss innovative and critical approaches to human rights within the international human rights system at the United Nations. The event will highlight how the Third World Approaches to International Movement (TWAIL) could make a meaningful impact on the United Nations Special Procedures.

Speakers:

B. Rajagopal: Associate Professor of Law and Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing

Michael Fakhri: Professor at the University of Oregon and UN Special Rapporteur on Food

Vasuki Nesiah: Professor at NYU

Tendayi Achiume: Alicia Minana Chair in Law and UCLU and UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

Obiara Okafor: Edward B. Burling Chair in International Law and Institutions at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and UN Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity

Chaired by Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, Teaching Associate in Human Rights, University of Nottingham