Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents The State of Human Rights: A Frederic G. Corneel Memorial Forum.Co-presented by Old South Meeting House and Suffolk University’s Model United Nations. With Rev. Dr. William Schulz and Dr. John Cerone; moderated by Dr. Jasmine Waddell.
With myriad political, social, and economic changes across the globe in the last decade, the public is eagerly questioning the effects on our worldwide fight for human rights. Rev. Dr. William Schulz, CEO of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, discusses the United States’ recent progress in upholding human rights and which geopolitical areas will soon need the most attention. Dr. John Cerone, professor of human rights law and the U.S. member of the International Law Association’s (ILA) International Human Rights Law Committee, delves into the UN’s original intentions with the Millennium Development Goals and the likelihood of fulfilling them by 2015. Dr. Jasmine Waddell, visiting lecturer at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, moderates their exchange on critical steps to ensure these fundamental rights to all.
The event is Thursday, April 12, 6:30-8:00 pm. Admission is free and open to all. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street (corner of Milk St.), Boston, MA. Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the Park Street, Downtown Crossing, and State Street stops on the MBTA. For more information, contact Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University: 617-557-2007,www.fordhallforum.org.
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Further background information on the participants:
William F. Schulz is the President and CEO of UUSC, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, a nonsectarian organization that advances human rights and social justice in the United States and around the world. Previously, he served for 12 years as executive director of Amnesty International USA. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Schulz is a former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. He has appeared frequently on radio and television news and analysis shows and is the author or contributing editor of seven books, including In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All; Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights; The Phenomenon of Torture; and The Future of Human Rights: US Policy for a New Era.
John P. Cerone is a professor of law and Director of the Center for International Law and Policy at New England Law School. Before joining the New England faculty ion 2004, Cerone was executive director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University Washington College of Law, where he served as a legal adviser to various international criminal courts and tribunals. As a practicing international lawyer, Cerone has worked for a number of different intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, including the United Nations, the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, and the International Crisis Group. He has extensive field experience in conflict and post-conflict environments, such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and East Timor. Cerone is the US Member of the International Law Association’s (ILA) International Human Rights Law Committee and is accredited by the United Nations to represent the American Society of International Law (ASIL) before various UN Bodies. He is an elected member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law.
Dr. Jasmine Waddell is an American- and British-trained comparative institutionalist scholar who studies social vulnerability, social exclusion and poverty in the US and the Global South. In addition to her traditional academic work, Waddell served as the Senior Officer for Research and Learning at Oxfam America. At Oxfam, she managed major research reports on social vulnerability to climate change, Black-Brown alliance building, measuring human development, and post-Katrina recovery. A Rhodes Scholar, Waddell assessed the implementation of social welfare policy in South Africa during apartheid.
Event info, text, and photo provided by Mary Curtin Productions and Suffolk University.
