Physicians for Human Rights will host a webinar featuring Dr. Brian Citro, a clinical lecturer in law and associate director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, and Shelbi Smith, a student attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic.
DATE: Monday, November 21, 2016
TIME: 1:00 PM EST (New York City) | 6:00 PM GMT (Casablanca - London) | 7:00 PM GMT+1 (Paris – Geneva – Tunis – Kinshasa) | 8:00 PM GMT+2 ( Beirut - Cairo - Bukavu) | 9:00 PM GMT+2 (Istanbul - Nairobi)
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More people die each year from TB than from any other infectious disease - 1.8 million deaths from TB in 2015 alone, and 10.6 million new TB cases in the same year. Despite these grave statistics, the human rights of people with TB are rarely acknowledged and even more rarely protected. This is especially true of people deprived of their liberty in prisons and other detention centers. The risk of active TB in prison is on average 23 times higher than in the general population. Prisoners also face high levels of human rights violations, including torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Brian Citro is a clinical lecturer in law and associate director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also director of “Developing a Rights-Based Approach to TB” - a project funded by the University of Chicago Centers in Delhi, Beijing and Hong Kong and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights - and chair of the TB, Human Rights and the Law Task Force of the Global Drug-Resistant TB Initiative. Prior to this, he worked in New Delhi, India, as a senior research officer to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and as project manager of the Global Health and Human Rights Database for the Lawyers Collective, HIV/AIDS Unit. He also worked on the implementation of the report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law as a legal consultant to the UNDP office of HIV, Health and Development. He has traveled extensively through his work and conducted UN country missions in Viet Nam, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan, as well as regional UN consultations in Hungary, Russia, and South Africa. He has published articles on issues related to the right to health, access to medicines, reproductive health, and the human rights responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies, and he has researched and drafted UN reports submitted to the General Assembly and Human Rights Council. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Shelbi Smith is a student attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic and a second-year law student at The University of Chicago Law School. Shelbi worked in the Clinic since June 2016, conducting legal research on tuberculosis in the context of international and domestic human rights law. Shelbi has a BA in Human Rights with a specialization in Public Policy from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.