Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Foundation for Justice and Equality
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Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed by the United Nations in July 1948, it set out, for the first time, the fundamental human rights of all people, a universal prescription for ensuring the dignity of every person.
Seventy-five years later, the declaration is the most translated document in the world and it has inspired the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties. But important questions remain, including how different perspectives, not included in 1948, can contribute to or even correct our understanding of human rights in 2023.
The Keough School of Global Affairs will mark this important anniversary with a two-day forum explore these questions. Dr. Walton Webson, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations, will offer a keynote address to stimulate reflections on “Human Rights, a Foundation for Justice and Equality: Fulfilling the Promise of the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Presenters at this conference include Kellogg Faculty Fellows Ellis Adams, Abby Córdova, Michel Hockx, Andrés Mejia Acosta, Francisco Urbina, and Ernesto Verdeja, as well as Kellogg Visiting Fellow Juan Sebastián Chamorro.
For more information, including the full schedule for the conference, visit the Keough School website.
This event is co-sponsored by the Keough School of Global Affairs and these constitutive units: the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and the Pulte Institute for Global Development.
Ellis Adjei Adams
Ellis Adjei Adams is an associate professor of geography and environmental policy at the Keough School of Global Affairs. He is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative and the Eck Institute for Global Health. Adams has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2020...
Abby Córdova
Abby Córdova is an associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs whose research integrates topics related to crime, violence, gender and economic inequality, and international migration. Her work uses experimental and non-experimental research designs, as well as advanced statistical methods...
Michel Hockx
Michel Hockx is the director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies and professor of Chinese literature at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Kellogg Institute for International Studies faculty fellow. His current research focuses on the effects of moral censorship on the preservation and digitization of modern Chinese cultural products. Hockx has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2017...
Andrés Mejia Acosta
Kellogg Faculty Fellow Andrés Mejía Acosta is the Kuster Family Associate Dean for Policy and Practice and associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. A former doctoral student affiliated with the Kellogg Institute, he became a faculty fellow in 2023 after joining the Keough School...
Francisco Urbina
Francisco J. Urbina joined the Law School in December 2022 and became a Kellogg faculty fellow in 2023. Urbina was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute and a concurrent visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School during the spring of 2022. His primary areas of work are human rights, jurisprudence, and constitutional law...
Ernesto Verdeja
Ernesto Verdeja is an Associate Professor of Peace Studies and Global Politics in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2010...