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DESCRIPTION:Join us for this conference held to mark Human Rights Day  Cent
 er for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism’s O’Brien Fellow in Residence Dr. 
 Semahagn G. Abebe and Visiting Fellow Dr. Christophe Golay will discuss th
 e various human rights implications of large-scale land acquisitions – als
 o called land grabbing – in the global south\, with a focus on Sub-Saharan
  Africa and Southeast Asia.  Devlin Kuyek from the non-governmental organi
 zation (NGO) GRAIN\, and Ester Wolf who worked for the NGO Bread for All w
 ill bring a civil society perspective to the discussion. Dr Nandini Ramanu
 jam will act as moderator.  About the speakers  Dr. Semahagn G. Abebe is O
 ’Brien Fellow in Residence at the CHRLP. He comes to 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ through the Sc
 holars at Risk Network. He received his LLM degree in International Econom
 ic Law and Human Rights Law from the University of Amsterdam and studied M
 asters (LLM) and Doctorate Degree (PhD) at the University of Goettingen.  
 His PhD work focused on federalism and the accommodation of linguistic div
 ersity in the context of the Ethiopian ethnic federal system that has been
  adopted since 1995. He published several articles\, including The Need to
  Alleviate the Human Rights Implications of Large-scale Land Acquisitions 
 in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012). His book The Last Post Cold-War Socialist Fe
 deration: Ethnicity\, Ideology and Democracy in Ethiopia will be published
  by Ashgate Publishers in February 2014.  Dr. Christophe Golay is Visiting
  Fellow at CHRLP. He has been the Coordinator of the Project on Economic\,
  Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanit
 arian Law and Human Rights since 2008. From 2001 to 2008\, he was Legal Ad
 viser to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. He undertoo
 k missions with the United Nations in many countries\, including Brazil\, 
 Guatemala\, Bolivia\, Cuba\, Niger\, Ethiopia\, Bangladesh\, India and the
  Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since 2011\, he is coordinating a resea
 rch project on the impact of land grab on the right to food in Cambodia an
 d Laos. He is the author of books and articles\, including Human Rights Re
 sponses to Land Grabbing : A Right to Food Perspective (2013)\, The Fight 
 for the Right to Food. Lessons Learned (2011)\, and Droit à l’alimentation
  et accès à la justice (2011).  Devlin Kuyek joined GRAIN in 2003\, after 
 working with NGOs and peasant organizations in Malaysia and the Philippine
 s. He is GRAIN's most active researcher\, focusing on monitoring and analy
 sing global agribusiness\, including the global land rush. Devlin is based
  in Montreal\, Canada\, and spends time supporting partners and staff in t
 he regions as much as possible.  Ester Wolf was Policy Advisor on the Righ
 t to Food for Bread for All (Switzerland) and member of the Ecumenical Adv
 ocacy Alliance Board of Directors from 2008 to September 2013. She support
 ed the work of peasant organizations resisting land grabbing in Africa and
  Latin America\, and organized workshops on land grabbing in Western and C
 entral Africa.  More information available online  www.righttofood.org  ww
 w.grain.org  www.breadforall.ch
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LOCATION:Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, 
 QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Large-scale land acquisitions and human rights in the developing wo
 rld
URL:/law/channels/event/large-scale-land-acquisitions-
 and-human-rights-developing-world-231687
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