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International Council on Human Rights Policy - Narrative Report 2009 B. Projects in draft or production at the start of 2010 New – Colloquium on Macro-Economic Policy and Human Rights (210) In January 2010 the International Council in association with Realizing Rights convened an international Colloquium in Geneva to discuss the relevance of human rights to the formation of macro-economic policy. The event built on a number of smaller initiatives that have taken place in the last few years, and was designed to create an “open space” in which economists, other policy makers from a range of institutions, and human rights specialists could exchange ideas and identify agendas for further work. The meeting was not designed to reach decisions. The Council will produce a short report in the second quarter of 2010, based on the Geneva discussion, that will suggest how work can be taken forward in this area and set out areas for further research. Co-chaired by Mary Robinson and Robert Archer, the meeting was well attended. The Council and Realizing Rights succeeded in bringing an unusually diverse mix of speakers and participants together. As expected, the event did not generate a coherent conversation, that had a clear direction or purpose. Most participants remained attached to the positions they started with, and little substantive “negotiation” occurred. This is not surprising: the subject has been too little explored, except by dedicated cross-disciplinary groups (which have had to labour hard to find a common agenda across economics and human rights), and the opinions of those present were both too varied and too fixed. The event succeeded nevertheless in its preliminary purpose: to open a discussion that identified areas of difference, shared interests, and opportunities for further research, dialogue and advocacy. Bringing together such an unusual mix of voices was certainly valuable. The following individuals participated in the meeting: Robert Archer (Executive Director ICHRP); Sedat Aybar (Associate Professor of Economics, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey); Radhika Balakrishnan (Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University, US); Roberto Bissio (Coordinator, international secretariat of Social Watch, Uruguay); Jan Borgen (Director, International Law and Protection, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva); Maria Virginia Bras Gomes (Member, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights); Lilian Chenwi (Senior researcher, University of the Western Cape, South Africa); Jean Luc Chopard (Chief of Protocol, State and City of Geneva); Jean- Francois Cuénod (Adviser, Conflict Prevention and Transformation, Swiss Department for Development and Cooperation); George DeMartino (Associate Professor, University of Denver, US); Ghassan Dibeh (Associate Professor of Economics, Lebanese American University, Lebanon); Caroline Dommen (Representative, Global Economic Issues, Quaker UN Office, Geneva); Lyse Doucet (broadcaster, British Broadcasting Corporation); Mary Dowell-Jones (Independent Consultant, Institute for Business and Human Rights, UK); Christian Durisch Acosta (Assistant, Special Envoy for Human Rights-related issues, Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland); Diane Elson (Professor, University of Essex, UK); Heiner Flassbeck (Director, Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD); Marta Foresti (Programme Leader, Politics and Governance Programme, ODI, UK); Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (Professor of International Affairs, The New School, New York, US); Arvind Ganesan (Director, Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch); Heather Grady (Managing Director, Realizing Rights, New York); Yao Graham (Head of Third World Network-Africa, Ghana); Shalmali Guttal (Senior Associate, Focus on the Global South, Thailand); Thomas Haueter (Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland); Ralf Heckner (Head of Human Rights Policy Section, Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland); Zanofer Ismalebbe (Human Rights Adviser and Programme and Team Manager, UNDP, Geneva); Hamish Jenkins (UN NGO Liaison Service, Geneva); Clara Jusidman de Bialostozky (President, INCIDE social, Mexico); David Kinley (Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Sydney, Australia); Rudolf Knoblauch (Special Envoy for Human Rights related issues, Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland); Miloon Kothari (HRLN South 8
International Council on Human Rights Policy - Narrative Report 2009 Asia and former UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, India); Richard Kozul-Wright (Chief, Economic Cooperation and Integration Among Developing Countries, UNCTAD); Massimiliano La Marca (economist, UNCTAD, Geneva); Pascal Lamy (Director-General, World Trade Organisation); Carlos Lopez (business and human rights programme, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva); Cephas Lumina (UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt, Zambia); Nicholas Lusiani (Programme Associate, ESCR-NET, US); Claire Mahon (Coordinator, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights); Stephen Marks (François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Chair UN High Level Task Force on the Implementation of the Right to Development, US); Chrispin Marteneau (Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights); Roxana Maurizio (Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, Buenos Aires, Argentina); Aubrey McCutcheon (Deputy Executive Director, Global Rights, US); Alan Miller (Chair, Scottish Human Rights Commission, UK); Manuel Montes (Chief, Policy Analysis and Development UNDESA); Vijay Kumar Nagaraj (Research Director, ICHRP); Richard Newfarmer (World Bank Special Representative to the UN and WTO, Switzerland); Steven Oates (Senior Adviser, International Labour Organisation, Geneva); Colm Ó Cuanacháin (Senior Director of Campaigns, Amnesty International, UK); Jarmo Oikarinen (Analyst, Policy Department for External Relations, European Parliament); Siddiqur Osmani (Professor of Developmental Economics, University of Ulster, UK); David Petrasek (consultant, Canada); Flavia Piovesan (Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Pontifical Catholic University, São Paolo, Brazil); Stephen Pursey (Senior Adviser to the Director- General, International Labour Organisation, Geneva); Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Associate Professor of Law and Development, MIT, US); Shahra Razavi (Senior Research Coordinator, UNRISD, Switzerland); Mary Robinson (President, Realizing Rights, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York); Nils Rosemann (Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland); Violette Ruppanner (Director, 3D -> Trade - Human Rights - Equitable Economy, Geneva); Ignacio Saiz (Executive Director, Centre for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Spain); Margot Salomon (Senior Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK); Marco Sassoli (Professor of Law, Geneva University, Board member of ICHRP); Gita Sen (Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India); Magdalena Sepùlveda (UN Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty, Research Director ICHRP, Switzerland); Daniel Seymour (Head, Gender and Rights Division, UNICEF, US); Mehdi Shafaeddin (IRENE, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland); John Southalan (Rio Tinto Research/Teaching Fellow, University of Dundee, UK); Jomo K. Sundaram (UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDESA); Lee Swepston (Human Rights at Work); Wilder Tayler (Director, International Commission of Jurists, Board member of ICHRP); Salil Tripathi (Director of Policy, Institute for Business and Human Rights, UK); Ibrahim Wani (Research and Right to Development Branch, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights); Sally-Anne Way (Research Director, Centre for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Colombia); Michael Windfuhr (Brot für die Welt, Germany); Lisa Wong (International Labour Organisation); Anja Wyden Guelpa (Chancellière of the City of Geneva); Andong Zhu (Professor of Economics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China). The Council will produce a short, forward-looking report on the meeting. It will not report the discussion or reiterate intellectual positions but aim to identify an agenda for further collaboration and research that is designed to encourage all parties to reflect more deeply about their positions and provide fresh directions for further work. The report will be about 30 pages in length (plus annexes), and will be published by ICHRP and Realizing Rights in the second quarter of 2010. The Board will take decisions about whether the Council undertakes further work in this field when it constructs the strategic plan for 2011-2013 in 2010. Neither Realizing Rights nor ICHRP seek to control any agenda of research or advocacy that may emerge from the meeting. 9
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