Moral Mathematics: The Science of Human Rights

"Moral Mathematics: The Science of Modern Human Rights" is a one-day conference that examines how the quantitative sciences, including statistics, economics, and demography, as well as certain kinds of sociology and political science, can contribute to human rights improvement around the world.
The conference will be opened by the keynote speaker Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace prize. An Iranian, Ebadi is the first woman to be named to the bench in her country. After serving as president of the Tehran city court from 1975 to 1979, Ebadi was forced to resign after the Islamic republic decided that women were not suitable for such posts.
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