Subject:        FW: Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Sengupta -  June 25 at CCIC


Hope you and your colleagues can join us!  - Please distribute this
invitation widely

Rights & Democracy
and
 the Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC)

invites you to a Brown Bag Lunch discussion with

Dr. Arjun Sengupta
UN Independent Expert on the Right to Development

On: Monday June 25
 From 12:00 to 13:30
at CCIC
1 Nicholas Street - Suite 300

Dr. Arjun Sengupta is the UN Independent Expert on the Right to
Development for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.   He is
also a professor of International Economic Organization and Jawaharlal
Nehru University, a former Ambassador of India to the European Union and a
former special advisor to the Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund.    He brings a wealth of experience to debates around the
right to development, combining concerns about human rights and economics
with a vast experience of practical problems faced by developing
countries.  He will speak about the right to development and reform of the
international financial institutions, to be followed by an open discussion
period.

The resolution adopted by the UN Commission on Human Rights with support
of 48 members (which Canada abstained on, along with Korea and UK; Japan
and US voted against) can be found at :
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/830361dae1d76d28c125
6a39004ba585?Opendocument

Dr. Sengupta's most recent report to the Commission on Human Rights can be
found at:
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/c98c8f2dcb713ff4c12569dc0058
c5c2/$FILE/G0110070.pdf

For more information contact:
Diana Bronson ([log in to unmask]) or Andrea Botto at 241-7007 ext. 333


Andrea Paula Botto
Policy Officer - CCIC-CCCI
Phone: (613) 241-7007 ext. 333
Fax: (613) 241-5302
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