Food Systems Webinar
Yale’s Global Justice Program collaborated with the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA) and Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) to organize a webinar on African food security. Co-organizer and panelist Kevin Okoth Ouko of JENA produced a detailed report.
Ninth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition
With Global Financial Integrity and Academics Stand Against Poverty, the Global Justice Program has announced three coequal winners of the Ninth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition of 2022. In alphabetical order, they are Savictor Sobechi Evan-Ibe for his essay Bombing, Billing, and Cash-Out
A Human-Centered Approach to Health Innovations: Reconciling Intellectual Property with Human Rights
A Human-Centered Approach to Health Innovations:
Reconciling Intellectual Property with Human Rights
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Workshop Agenda
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October 29, 2022
9:00-9:15 Thomas Pogge and Peter Yu: Introductory Remarks
9:15-9:55 Joshua D. Sarnoff, Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law: Duties
German Climate Judgment
On 29 April 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) has ruled that Germany’s current climate legislation violates the country’s constitution because the limited emission reductions planned for the present leave too much of the overall mitigation effort to the next
The Business of Private Prisons
Investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins discusses private prisons in South Africa, with Wits Justice Project journalist Edwin Naidu. They are joined by Lauren-Brooke Eisen, author of Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Columbia University Press, 2017).
Reporting on Environmental Crime
Environmental crime including poaching and forestry is worth $2 trillion in proceeds annually. Yet law enforcement globally has yet to seriously tackle the business model driving the trade which involves a network of organised crime, corporate facilitation and corrupt regimes.
Bryan Christy is
Investigative Journalism: Tricks of the Trade
Friday, 9 April 2021, 11:30am EDT
The importance of building, contributing to, using and promoting open source and civic technology is greater than ever in this era of surveillance. As a flood of technology shapes and rewrites the rules of economies and our personal lives, life itself becomes
