Axworthy in NY to talk poverty, legal empowerment
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The president of the University of Winnipeg will be in New York Thursday for a discussion on the link between poverty and the law.
Dr. Lloyd Axworthy is scheduled to be a part of United Nations panel dissecting the barriers that poor and marginalized people of the world face and how legal empowerment could help absolve those issues. The panel will also discuss the continuing problems facing poverty-stricken segments of the global population, including the lack of basic services and basic social justice they are entitled to.
According to a 2008 report by the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor – an independent high-level commission assembled in 2005 — more than four billion impoverished people live outside the protection of the law.
Axworthy, who is also vice-chancellor at the University of Winnipeg, is a former Canadian Foreign Affairs minister and continues to have an active voice supporting international justice and social equalities around the world.