In too many places around the world, it is only the privileged members of society who are able to use the law to assert and protect their rights. There is a broad and growing movement, however, to change that. Namati: Innovations in Legal Empowerment is playing a leading role mobilizing and partnering with individuals, organizations, and governments around the world to provide all people with access to the tools and protection that the law offers.
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December 7, 2015
In a presentation at the School of Public Policy on December 2, Gloria Lai (Mundus MAPP '11) offered a devastating critique of the global war on drugs – a war that, as she noted, has been enormously expensive: $1.5 trillion was spent on drug control efforts between 1970 and 2010 in the US alone. Despite this, there was no significant change in the levels of drug dependence.
December 3, 2015
SPP Associate Dean Julia Buxton participated in a panel discussion at the U.S. International Peace Institute (IPI) on November 16. The event, entitled "Sustainable Development and the World Drug Problem," was chaired by IPI Director of Research and Publications Adam Lupel. The panel included Jürg Lauber, permanent representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, Tenu Avafia from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Summer Walker of the United Nations University (UNU).
November 30, 2015
"The past is speaking quite loudly in the present," observed Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. Schell was commenting on the powerful influence that past events and former leaders have on the current "China model," and the way that China is perceived by others.
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