The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS) present a roundtable: "Certifiably Fair: Can Consumers Monitor Human Rights?" The roundtable will consider the possibilities and limitations of various forms of certification regimes for the realization, enforcement and governance of human rights. It is part of a larger project of the Rapoport Center that is examining relationships among natural resource governance, economic inequality and human rights. The occasion for this roundtable is to take advantage of the visit of Professor José Aylwin, who will be here for a week as a LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor. Additional participants include Sean Sellers, the co-founder and a senior investigator at the Fair Food Council and a staff-member of the newly created Worker-driven Social Responsibility Collaborative, Jessica Champagne, the Director of Research and Advocacy for the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization, and Michael Conroy, a principal of "Colibrí Consulting – Certification for Sustainable Development."
\n\nIf you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the event sponsor or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS) present a roundtable: "Certifiably Fair: Can Consumers Monitor Human Rights?" The roundtable will consider the possibilities and limitations of various forms of certification regimes for the realization, enforcement and governance of human rights. It is part of a larger project of the Rapoport Center that is examining relationships among natural resource governance, economic inequality and human rights. The occasion for this roundtable is to take advantage of the visit of Professor José Aylwin, who will be here for a week as a LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor. Additional participants include Sean Sellers, the co-founder and a senior investigator at the Fair Food Council and a staff-member of the newly created Worker-driven Social Responsibility Collaborative, Jessica Champagne, the Director of Research and Advocacy for the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization, and Michael Conroy, a principal of "Colibrí Consulting – Certification for Sustainable Development."
If you need an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the event event sponsor or the Texas Law Special Events Office at specialevents@law.utexas.edu no later than seven business days prior to the event.
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion / Speaker Series LOCATION:TNH 2.111 - Sheffield-Massey Room URL:http://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2016/02/29/21724/ CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED COMMENT:Contact Sarah Cline: scline@law.utexas.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR