Stand For Human Rights: Impacts of the Pandemic on Humanitarian Work

David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and will speak at Duke about human rights and humanitarianism during the pandemic.

Miliband oversees the agency's relief and development operations in over 30 countries, its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout the United States and the IRC's advocacy efforts in Washington and other capitals on behalf of the world's most vulnerable people.

Miliband will talk with Dean Judith Kelley and Prof. Gavin Yamey about how to get a COVID vaccine to the broad and displaced refugee and migrant communities, impacts of the pandemic on humanitarian work, and much more.

Register: http://bit.ly/HumanRightsNov17

Dean Judith Kelley, an expert on international relations, researches how international actors can promote democratic and human rights reforms.

Professor Gavin Yamey trained in clinical medicine at Oxford University and University College London, medical journalism and editing at the BMJ and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Miliband has had a distinguished political career in the United Kingdom. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the youngest Foreign Secretary in three decades. His accomplishments have earned him a reputation, in former President Bill Clinton's words, as "one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time."

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