C.V. Starr Lecture I
The Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress
with Farida Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
(CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE)
This program is approved for
1.5 CLE credit in Professional Practice.
- Date: Monday
- Time:
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- Contact: Michael Rhee at (212) 431-2865 or Michael.Rhee@nyls.edu
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Scientific
innovations are changing human existence in ways inconceivable just a few
decades ago. But the right to benefit from scientific progress —
including its scope, normative content, and state obligations —
remains underdeveloped in international human rights law. Farida Shaheed
will discuss the findings and recommendations of her 2012 report on the
right to benefit from scientific progress. They describe how innovative
initiatives are shaping this right, examine the close link between this
right and cultural rights, and explain how this right poses challenges to
intellectual property rights in particular.
About
Farida Shaheed
Farida Shaheed (Pakistan) took up her functions as an Independent Expert
in the field of cultural rights in 2009 and continued as a Special
Rapporteur on the same issue, following Human Rights Council Resolution
19/6. She has worked for more than 25 years promoting and protecting
cultural rights by fostering policies and projects designed in culturally
sensitive ways to support the rights of marginalized sectors, including
women, peasants, religious, and ethnic minorities. Ms. Shaheed has been
the recipient of several national and international human rights awards,
and is an experienced participant in negotiations at international,
regional, and national levels. She has brought her distinctive perspective
on the integration of culture and rights to her work as an independent
expert/consultant to numerous United Nations and development agencies as
well as to the government of Pakistan since 1980.
Ms. Shaheed
works as a Director at Women’s Empowerment and Leadership
Development for Democratization (an international program strengthening
and promoting citizenship in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa), and as a
Research Director at Shirkat Gah-Women’s Resource Centre.
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