Led by Professor Thomas Pogge, the Global Justice Program at Yale is an interdisciplinary group that works on the assessment and reform of global institutional arrangements. For more information about the Program, people working in and and affiliated with the Program, and the Projects that our members and affiliates are engaged in, use the above links.
The Global Justice Program supports the G20 Transparency campaign. The campaign is an international grassroots effort to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition calling for greater transparency in the global financial system. The organization Global Financial Integrity will deliver the petition to the Group of Twenty meeting in Toronto at the end of June. Supporters can read the petition at www.G20transparency.com.
The Global Justice Program is sponsoring the one-year anniversary
conference of Academics Stand Against Poverty. The conference will
take place at Yale on April 12 and 13, 2012. Speakers will include
Philip Alston, Nicole Hassoun, Branko Milanovic, Thomas Pogge, Gustav
Ranis and Paul Slovic.
We invite researchers, teachers and students with an interest in of
global poverty alleviation efforts to take part in this conference.
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Incentives for Global Health has added three new distinguished members to its Advisory Board. Paul Farmer is an anthropologist and physician and a co-founder of Partners in Health, a global health organization that has been active in Haiti for many years. Jim Yong Kim is the 17th president of Dartmouth College, a former director of the WHO HIV/AIDS department, and co-founder, with Paul Farmer, of Partners in Health. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul is Member of the German Bundestag for Wiesbaden and a member of the Social Democratic Party and a former Federal Minster for Economic Cooperation and Development.