BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: \;Bridging human rights and development: the growing movem ent for economic and social rights This talk will cover the work of transn ational organizations on economic and social rights\, mapping the field\, and teasing out convergences and divergences between human rights and deve lopment practice. Ignacio Saiz is Executive Director of the Center for Eco nomic and Social Rights (CESR)\, an international non-governmental organiz ation based in Madrid and New York working at the intersections of human r ights and development. Prior to this\, he was director of policy at the in ternational secretariat of Amnesty International\, where his responsibilit ies included overseeing the development of Amnesty's research\, campaignin g and advocacy on economic\, social and cultural rights. Previous roles at Amnesty International have included deputy director of the Americas Progr am\, policy coordinator and Central America researcher. He has also worked as a freelance human rights consultant for several other organizations in areas relating to sexuality and human rights\, the prevention of torture and post-conflict accountability. Ignacio holds an LLM in international hu man rights law with distinction from the University of Essex. We are honor ed to welcome Ignacio Saiz as the Spring 2011 Moynihan TNGO Fellow. Mr. Sa iz will be resident at the Moynihan Transnational NGO Initiative March 1-1 1 to undertake research and reflect on his organization’s challenges and o pportunities. Lunch will be provided DTEND:20110308T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T102238Z DTSTART:20110308T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:TNGO presents: Ignacio Saiz UID:RFCALITEM639141637581661419 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: \;Bridging human rights and development: the growing movement for economic and social rights This talk will cover t he work of transnational organizations on economic and social rights\, map ping the field\, and teasing out convergences and divergences between huma n rights and development practice. Ignacio Saiz is Executive Director of t he Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)\, an international non-gov ernmental organization based in Madrid and New York working at the interse ctions of human rights and development. Prior to this\, he was director of policy at the international secretariat of Amnesty International\, where his responsibilities included overseeing the development of Amnesty's rese arch\, campaigning and advocacy on economic\, social and cultural rights. Previous roles at Amnesty International have included deputy director of t he Americas Program\, policy coordinator and Central America researcher. H e has also worked as a freelance human rights consultant for several other organizations in areas relating to sexuality and human rights\, the preve ntion of torture and post-conflict accountability. Ignacio holds an LLM in international human rights law with distinction from the University of Es sex. We are honored to welcome Ignacio Saiz as the Spring 2011 Moynihan TN GO Fellow. Mr. Saiz will be resident at the Moynihan Transnational NGO Ini tiative March 1-11 to undertake research and reflect on his organization’s challenges and opportunities. Lunch will be provided END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR