Event Date: September 7, 2011 - 10:00 am
Location: Pavillon des Sciences sociales 4006, 120 Université Privé

CLARE SHORT, Chair, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Presented by the Human Rights Research and Education Center, in partnership with Publish What You Pay and CIPS

Free. In English with a bilingual question period.

Clare Short was elected Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2011. She was MP (Labour) for Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom, from 1983 to 2010 and Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to May 2003. In 2003, Ms Short resigned from the Government over the Iraq war. She stood down from Parliament in 2010, and is now active in various organisations working on peace and international development.

Ms. Short’s presentation will be followed by a discussion with Mark Pearson, Natural Resources Canada, François Meloche, Bâtirente, and Ian Smilie, Diamond Development Initiative.

This event is part of the Human Rights Speakers’ Series.

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