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Join Us for Our Human Rights Day Event on December 9th

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We hope you can join us for our annual Human Rights Day event on December 9, 2021, at 3:30 p.m. EST. Each year, the Law Library of Congress celebrates Human Rights Day to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly with an event designed to promote understanding and recognition of human rights around the globe. This year’s event focuses on the intersection of health and human rights, with a panel that will bring together leading health and legal scholars and practitioners. The panel will discuss the interactions between health and human rights, and how human rights can help to strengthen public health systems across the globe and improve the response to health challenges.
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A flyer promoting the Law Library of Congress 2021 Human Rights Day event.
Flyer announcing the upcoming Law Library of Congress Human Rights Day event. Created by Kelly Goles.

The panel will be moderated by Peter Roudik, the assistant law librarian for legal research at the Law Library of Congress and the director of the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate.

The panelists are as follows:

Lucy Mize. Ms. Mize spent 24 years in the field in Indonesia and West Africa before she joined the USAID Asia Bureau as the health team lead. In that role, Mize leads eight technical experts providing health programming support to over 20 countries across Asia.

Helena Nygren-Krug. Professor Nygren-Krug is a senior advisor on human rights and the law in the executive office of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

Judit Sándor. Dr. Sándor is a professor of law and bioethics at Central European University (CEU). She served as the chief of the Bioethics Section at UNESCO and is the founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at CEU.

Alicia Ely Yamin. Dr. Yamin is currently a lecturer on law and the senior fellow on Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and an adjunct senior lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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