June 23–24, 2016
Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires
Figueroa Alcorta 2263 (corner of Pueyrredón), Salón Rojo
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organized and sponsored by NYU School of Law and Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) Law School.
10:00-10:30 Opening
10:30-12:00 PANEL 1: Measurement & Indicators
Themes:
1. Concerns around progress indicators as a measurement tool for rights.
2. Relevance, risks, possibilities, and limits of indicators as a tool for enforceability of ESCR.
3. Links between indicators and justiciability of ESCR.
4. Regional scenario: the role of the San Salvador Protocol Working Group, and the follow-up mechanisms of the Belém do Pará Convention. Indicators in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:45-16:45 PANEL 2: SDGs and Human Rights
Themes:
1. What human rights lessons can we draw from the MDGs experience?
2. What possibilities do they provide for advancing the agenda of objectives linked to structural inequality (ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, sexual division of labor) and reduction of poverty?
3. What new consensus may they promote in the area of ESCR?
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16:45-17:30 Break
17: 30-19:00 Book Presentation – El bienestar en brechas. Las políticas sociales en la Argentina de la posconvertibilidad. By Laura Pautassi and Gustavo Gamallo (Directors) (Room: Sala Vélez Sarsfield)
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10:30-12:30 PANEL 3: Public Finance and ESCR
Themes:
1. What type of institutional arrangements may contribute to having a tax/expenditure regime respectful of HR?
2. Challenges around the judicial intervention devoted to control tax/expenditure policies which are not respectful of HR. (May the judiciary intervene when tax/expenditure policies are not respectful of HR?; what type of intervention is justified?; what type of remedies may be allowed?)
3. What pressing extraterritorial/international tax issues need attention from the human rights world? (tax avoidance via transfer pricing etc., financial secrecy)
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12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:45-16:45 PANEL 4: Teaching Skills for ESCR Advocacy
Themes:
1. Relevance and challenges of teaching skills to future HR lawyers.
2. Methods, materials, and results.
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