Prospects for Economic and Social Human Rights Country Indicators Symposium
Prospects for Economic and Social Human Rights Country Indicators Symposium
*14 October 2011*
*Registration from 9am, the Symposium will begin at 9:30am*
*The Symposium will be followed by an informal reception*
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*About the Event:*
Can we develop accurate and useful indicators for economic and social human rights? Can we score countries on their economic and social rights achievements? What would be the requisites and aims of an economic and social rights dataset? What kind of international questions would such a dataset inform?
The implementation of human rights standards in different societies implies that we can make judgements about the observance of human rights obligations by states. Such judgements, however, have to be made on the basis of more than the declarations of governments or even their legal commitments. It must be possible both to describe and prescribe institutional and policy measures that constitute clear observance of these obligations. Whilst some significant work has been done to develop civil and political rights indicators, scoring the human rights performance of specific territories, not enough work has been done outlining and defining indicators for economic and social human rights.
This symposium brings together leading experts in the field to discuss past and current initiatives and desiderata for an economic and social human rights dataset.
Session Time
1) Prof. Todd Landman (Essex): Economic and Social Rights Indicators and Problems 9.30-10.15 Coffee Break 10.15-10.30
2) Panel discussion: Current Measures on ES Indicators - Polly Vizard, Todd Landman and David Cingranelli, (Chair: Saladin Meckled-Garcia) 10.30-12:00 Lunch Break 12-13:30
4) Rod Abouharb: Economic rights, child mortality and development indicators; Imdra de Soyza : Empirically assessing the societal effectiveness of bilateral aid 13:30-15:00 Coffee 15:00-15:15
5) Prof. David Cingranelli followed by plenary discussion-Prospects for the future of Economic and Social Rights Indicator Sets 15:15-17:15 Reception 17:30 -19:00 Dinner 19:30
*Speaker list:*
Professor Todd Landman (University of Essex), Dr Polly Vizard (LSE), Professor David Cingranelli (University of Binghamton), Dr Rodwan Abouharb (UCL), Professor Indra de Soyza (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCL)
