The Ford Foundation Presents "Beyond Conventions: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change"

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Sep 13, 2011, 01:47 ET

NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Ford Foundation:

WHEN: Tuesday, September 20^th, 9am - 5pm

WHAT: A full-day Ford Foundation 75^th anniversary forum bringing together activists, rights defenders, government and private sector leaders, artists and writers to challenge us all to think beyond conventions and to reimagine what human rights can and should be in a time of great change.

Ten years into a new century, is the human rights movement changing along with a changing world? Are the promises of landmark human rights conventions being felt in the lives of people who struggle for basic survival and dignity every day?

Panels include Human Rights on Trial: An Open Hearing on the Movement's Past –and its Future, Women of the World: A Conversation with Global Leaders, The State of Rights in the U.S., Technology: The Next Frontier, A Conversation with Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Human Rights and the Fight for Economic and Social Inclusion.

WHO:

Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor, World Wide Web
Sewell Chan, Deputy Opinion Page Editor, The New York Times
Jeremy Heimans, Co-founder, Purpose
Harold Koh, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
Diego Luna, Mexican actor and producer
Rebecca MacKinnon, Co-founder, Global Voices Online
Geoffrey Robertson QC, human rights lawyer and author
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African activist
Jeffrey Toobin, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State