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The Barrick Gold case: How Human Rights Watch interacts with large Corporations

    The Harvard Club of The Netherlands is pleased to invite you to an event with Christopher Albin-Lackey, director at the Business & Human Rights program of Human Rights Watch (see a short bio below). During the event Mr. Albin-Lackey will talk about the work of Human Rights Watch on corporations and Human Rights Watch’ investigations into allegations of human rights abuse involving multinationals. In doing so, he will present the case of Barrick Gold, the world’s leading gold company, based in Canada but active worldwide. Barrick Gold owns the Porgera Gold mine in Papua New Guinea, where Human Rights Watch investigated and documented human rights violations. The relationship between Human Rights Watch and Barrick Gold developed over time from one of mutual suspicion to one of something approaching partnership in figuring out the best ways to address human rights problems that they ultimately agreed were real and needed to be addressed.

    The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with plenty of room for discussion. After the talk we invite you to continue discussions in an informal setting with drinks and snacks.Read More »The Barrick Gold case: How Human Rights Watch interacts with large Corporations

    Who Get’s In, What Comes Out

      At the end of the 19th century, Harvard took measures to attract students not only from the elite, but also from public schools. This move resulted in an unwelcome surprise for Harvard: they enrolled too many Jewish students. Harvard quickly took measures that were intended to, as President A. Lawrence Lowell said, “prevent a dangerous increase in the proportion of Jews”. Princeton and Yale soon followed suit, creating a system that allowed them to change the admissions policies to protect their place in the halls of power. For The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Jerome Karabel, Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, compiled over two decades of original research into a comprehensive, provocative and riveting account of the development of American Ivy League education and admissions policies.Read More »Who Get’s In, What Comes Out