Ní Aoláin, FionnualaOakland, AbbyShastri, SeikoUniversity of Minnesota Duluth. Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International Studies2021-06-292021-06-292021https://hdl.handle.net/11299/220641Presented by - Dr. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur to the United Nations and Regents Professor & Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, University of Minnesota; Abby Oakland, Third-year student at the University of Minnesota Law School; Editor-in-Chief, Minnesota Law Review; and Seiko Shastri, Third-year student at the University of Minnesota Law School; Student Director, Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic, Binger Center for New Americans. Wednesday, February 17, 2021; 7:30 pm; Register at z.umn.edu/GlobalTracking-Spring2021; Free and open to the public.The speakers will discuss their work on developing a worldwide tracker of governmental responses to the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID-19 Civic Freedom Tracker is designed to ensure that governments are held accountable for their use of the powers that they have been granted to deal with the pandemic. The tracker will be updated regularly to keep the use of these extraordinary powers transparent in terms of their effects on human rights and freedoms. The tracker is the result of collaboration between the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), It was built with the support of Dr. Ní Aoláin in her capacity as U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.en-USPostersUniversity of Minnesota DuluthLecturesRoyal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International StudiesVirtual eventsOther