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FSI researchers consider international development from a variety of angles. They analyze ideas such as how public action and good governance are cornerstones of economic prosperity in Mexico and how investments in high school education will improve China’s economy.

They are looking at novel technological interventions to improve rural livelihoods, like the development implications of solar power-generated crop growing in Northern Benin.

FSI academics also assess which political processes yield better access to public services, particularly in developing countries. With a focus on health care, researchers have studied the political incentives to embrace UNICEF’s child survival efforts and how a well-run anti-alcohol policy in Russia affected mortality rates.

FSI’s work on international development also includes training the next generation of leaders through pre- and post-doctoral fellowships as well as the Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program.

CDDRL's research community expands

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CDDRL is pleased to welcome new (and returning) faculty, staff, pre and post-doctoral fellows, and visiting scholars to our expanding research community for the 2011-12 academic year. Enriching our ranks with new scholars and practitioners, allows CDDRL to expand the breadth and scope of our work and global impact. Please join us in welcoming these new colleagues to the CDDRL community.

Faculty and Staff

Jeremy Weinstein, Associate Professor of Political Science, who has just rejoined CDDRL after serving for the last two years as Director of Democracy at the National Security Council. Jeremy will be delivering a CDDRL seminar on November 3 on policy perspectives under the Obama administration                                                                                                            

Stephen Stedman, FSI Senior Fellow, recently joined CDDRL as a member of our core faculty 

General Karl Eikenberry, CDDRL and CISAC Affiliated Faculty, and Payne Distinguished Lecturer at FSI. General Eikenberry's first public lecture will held at the Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center on Monday, October 3, at 5:30 p.m. on "Improving Governance and Combating Drugs".

Kavita Ramdas joined CDDRL in August as the executive director of the newly launched Program on Social Entrepreneurship at CDDRL

Nadejda Marques, is the new program manager for the CDDRL Program on Human Rights

Samantha Maskey is the new administrative assistant to Steve Stedman and Francis Fukuyama

CDDRL pre and post-doctoral fellows arrived in September to begin their year-long residency at CDDRL:

Mike Albertus, CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow from Stanford University

Eric Kramon, CDDRL Pre-doctoral Fellow from UCLA

Reo Matsuzaki, CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow from MIT

Alex Ruiz Euler, CDDRL Pre-doctoral Fellow from UCSD

CDDRL Visiting Scholars

Andrea Abel, Visiting Scholar, Commission on Global Election Integrity

Henrik Larsen, Visiting Researcher from the Danish Institute for International Studies

Brenna Powell, Visiting Scholar, Commission on Global Election Integrity

Brenna PowellA9/">Landry Signe, Postdoctoral Scholar from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Daniel Zoughbie, Visiting Scholar Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, CEO and President of Microclinic International

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Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

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The Program on Human Rights and the Center for Latin American Studies are pleased to host the Conference "Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America".

Indigenous peoples around the world have often been dispossessed of their land, leading to ongoing conflict over control and usage of land and resources. Indigenous peoples in Latin America are no exception; they are among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable peoples in the region. Indigenous peoples in Latin America rank highest on underdevelopment indicators such as incarceration, illiteracy, unemployment, poverty and disease. They face discrimination in schools and are exploited in the workplace. Their sacred lands and artifacts are plundered from them. In many Latin American countries, indigenous peoples are not even permitted to study their own language.

The Stanford Spring conference “Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America,” brings scholars from all disciplines to examine the common trends, actors, challenges and changes among indigenous populations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Alejandro Toledo President of Peru from 2001 to 2006 Keynote Speaker
Eliane Karp-Toledo Anthropologist, Economist and former First Lady of Peru (2001 to 2006) Keynote Speaker
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A Critique of Repressive Approaches to Combat Human Trafficking

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Alison Brysk is the Mellichamp Chair in Global Governance, Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She has authored or edited eight books on international human rights including the book From Human Trafficking to Human Rights. Professor Brysk has been a visiting scholar in Argentina, Ecuador, France, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Japan, and in 2007 held the Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Chair in Global Governance at Canada's Centre for International Governance Innovation.

 

Dr. Mohammed Mattar is the executive director of the Protection Project. He has worked in over 50 countries to promote state compliance with international human rights standards and has advised governments on drafting and implementing anti-trafficking legislation. He participated in drafting the United Nations model law on trafficking in persons and he authored the Inter-Parliamentarian Handbook on the appropriate responses to trafficking in persons. Dr. Mattar currently teaches courses on international and comparative law at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) and American University, and has authored numerous publications for law reviews and the United Nations on international human rights and Islamic law, trafficking in persons and reporting mechanisms.

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Alison Brysk Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance in the Global and International Studies Program Speaker UCSB
Dr. Mohammed Mattar Executive Director of the Protection Project Speaker Johns Hopkins University
Helen Stacy Director Host Program on Human Rights
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Human Trafficking
Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series on Human Trafficking

Globalization and How Its Many Forms Contribute to Human Trafficking

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Jyoti Sanghera is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Representative in Nepal. She has been with Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for close to a decade serving as the Adviser on trafficking in Geneva for several years and subsequently as the Senior Human Rights Adviser in Sri Lanka. 

Ms. Sanghera has also worked with UNICEF both in South Asia and New York and with UNDP’s regional office in New Delhi. She has worked on human rights protection issues in relation to women, migrants, and other discriminated groups in conflict and post conflict situations for the past three decades in various capacities, including with key NGOs in North America and Asia.

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Jyoti Sanghera Expert OHCHR on Trafficking Speaker
Helen Stacy Director Host Program on Human Rights
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Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series on Human Trafficking

Anti-trafficking Approaches: A Description of What Works and What Doesn’t

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Jean Enriquez is the Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking Women-Asia-Pacific. Ms. Enriquez is an experienced person and trainer for various international and national fora on trafficking and prostitution, sexuality, health and reproductive rights, women’s political participation, women and development. She has worked on women’s issues in many of the poor countries of South Asia and the Mekong Region, such as Bangladesh and Cambodia. She has counseled victims of incestuous rape; has rescued women from prostitution; and has had her team of social workers threatened by abusers.Ms. Enriquez is a recipient of  The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service award in 2010, and was named as one of the 7 Modern-Day Heroes by Yahoo! Philippines in 2011.

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Jean Enriquez Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking of Women-Asia Pacific Speaker
Helen Stacy Director Moderator Program on Human Rights
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Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series on Human Trafficking

The Context of Human Trafficking Today

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Dr. Anne Gallagher is a global authority on the international legal and policy aspects of human trafficking and related exploitation. She served as a career UN official from 1992 to 2003 working with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In 1998 she was appointed Special Adviser on Human Trafficking to Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In that capacity she represented the High Commissioner in the negotiations for the UN Organized Crime Convention and its Protocols on Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling. More recently, She completed the definitive legal commentary to the United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking.

Rosi Orozco was born in Jardines Del Pedrigal in the south of Mexico City. Her eyes were opened to Mexico’s trafficking problem in 2005 by a film she saw in Washington DC at a Concerned Women For America (CWFA) event. She worked with various NGOs, including Camino A Casa, a safe house for trafficking victims in Mexico City, before entering politics in 2009. She’s now a Congresswoman, and President of the Special Commission Against Human Trafficking. Often she says: “I didn’t come here because of politics. I came here for the problem of human trafficking.”

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Rosi Orozco Congressional Representative and Anti trafficking leader Speaker Mexico
Anne Gallagher Former Advisor on Trafficking Speaker Office of the UN High Comissioner for Human Rights
Helen Stacy Director Moderator Program on Human Rights
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Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series on Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking: The Current Anti-trafficking Model and Networks of Service

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Cindy Liou is a staff attorney at Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach. Cindy currently practices law in the areas of human trafficking, immigration law, family law, and domestic violence. She is the coordinator for the Human Trafficking Project at the agency. Before working at API Legal Outreach, Cindy practiced intellectual property litigation and handled a variety of pro bono cases at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Cindy graduated from Stanford Law School and received her double degree in Political Science and Business Administration with a minor in Human Rights from the University of Washington. Before becoming an attorney, Cindy consulted for the Corporate Social Responsibility Department of Starbucks Coffee Company.

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Cindy Liou Staff attorney Speaker Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Helen Stacy Director Commentator Program on Human Rights
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Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series on Human Trafficking

Human trafficking in times of war: Lessons learned in Bosnia

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Madeline Rees, Secretary General of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, began working for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as the gender expert and Head of Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1998. In that capacity she worked extensively on the rule of law, gender and post conflict, transitional justice and the protection of social and economic rights. The OHCHR office dealt extensively with the issue of trafficking and Madeleine was a member of the expert coordination group of the trafficking task force of the Stability Pact, thence the Alliance against Trafficking. From September 2006 to April 2010 she was the head of the Women`s rights and gender unit.


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Madeline Rees Former UN High Comisioner for Human Rights in Bosnia-Secretary General Womens International League for Peace and Freedom Speaker
Helen Stacy Director Host Program on Human Rights
Katherine Jolluck Senior Lecturer Moderator Stanford History Department
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Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series on Human Trafficking

Combating Human Trafficking: The Role of Governments, Philanthropic Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations

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Bradley Myles is the executive director and CEO at Polaris. Mr. Myles has provided consultation, training, and technical assistance on anti-trafficking strategies to hundreds of audiences, including human trafficking task forces and coalitions across the nation, government agencies, federal and local law enforcement, U.S. Members of Congress, media, service providers, and foreign delegations. He has also been a key advocate in bridging the national anti-trafficking program areas of multiple federal government agencies in the U.S. Departments of State, Homeland Security, Justice, and Health and Human Services.

Helga Konrad is the head of the Austria Regional Initiative to Prevent and Combat all Forms of Human Trafficking. She has been working on the issue of human trafficking for more than 20 years at local, national, regional and international levels in various functions – as expert, advisor, manager, coordinator, parliamentarian and politician.

In her capacities as special representative, chair of the Stability Pact Task Force for South Eastern Europe and International Consultant she has provided assistance to governments and State authorities in developing national and transnational anti-trafficking strategies and in order to help improve their capacities to act on their own and in cooperation with others. From 2004 to 2006, she served as Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the OSCE – Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. From 2000 to 2004, she served as regional co-ordinator and chair of the  EU Stability Pact Task Force on Human Trafficking for South Eastern Europe.

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Bradley Myles Executive Director and CEO Speaker Polaris Project
Helga Konrad Executive Director Anti-Trafficking, Austrian Institute for International Affairs Speaker
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Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speaker Series on Human Trafficking

Program on Human Rights Sanela Diana Jenkins Speaker Series, Human Trafficking Fall Workshop

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Human trafficking will be the theme of the PHR's Selena Diana Jenkins Speakers Series this academic year. Human trafficking is a crime that deprives people of their fundamental rights and freedoms. Human trafficking sustained by growing networks of organized crime is devastating for individual victims and can perpetuate the poverty cycle and hinder development in areas affected. The purpose of this Fall Workshop is to determine ways in which the winter series can assist faculty in their research and to match Stanford researchers with speakers for the winter series.

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Madeline Rees Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, current Secretary General of the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom Speaker
Helen Stacy Director, Program on Human Rights Moderator
Richard H. Steinberg Director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Law Project Moderator UCLA - School of Law
Laryssa Kondracki Director, The Whistleblower (2010) Speaker
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