State Food Crimes: How governments deprive their citizens and others under their control of food

A Lecture by Dr. Rhoda Howard-Hassmann

Human Rights Awareness Week
Sponsored by International Studies Program

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
7:30 p.m.
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Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Global Studies and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

She is the author of Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana (1978), Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa (1986), Human Rights and the Search for Community (1995),Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (2003), Reparations to Africa (2008), and Advancing Human Rights through Globalization (2010). She is also co-editor of an International Handbook of Human Rights (1987); Economic Rights in Canada and the United States (2006); and The Age of Apology: Facing up to the Past (2007).

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This event is open to the public.