Center for Global Engagement (CGE) International Development Series and Buffett Center Human Rights Talks present:

Global Poverty as a Human Rights Violation? A Pragmatic Question

Lucie E. White, Harvard University

Lucie E. White is Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Harvard University. She specializes in domestic poverty law and international economic and social rights, particularly in Africa. For a decade, she has collaborated with Harvard students and faculty at the University of Ghana on an interdisciplinary right-to-health project that focuses on human rights dimensions of Ghana's health finance system. In 2006, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, she initiated Stones of Hope, a collaboration among African human rights activists and scholars to examine innovations in economic and social rights advocacy. She is the author of many articles and books, including Hard Labor: Poor Women And Work in the Post-Welfare Era, and editor of Stones of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty.