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Keynote Speaker: Hon’ble Geoffrey Harris

Deputy Head of the European Parliament Liaison Office with the US Congress and formerly Head of the Human Rights Unit within the Secretariat General of the European Parliament (Directorate General for external policies DGEXPO).

Hon’ble Geoffrey Harris is currently the Deputy Head of the European Parliament Liaison Office with the US Congress and formerly Head of the Human Rights Unit within the Secretariat General of the European Parliament (Directorate General for external policies DGEXPO). This unit provides the back-up for the sub-committee, a parliamentary body working in the framework of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. The unit provides back-up for all initiatives and aspects of the work of the institution concerning human rights (the President, the Development and External Trade committees and the Inter parliamentary delegations). 

Mr. Harris has been an EP official since 1976 and previously was in charge of the European Parliament’s delegations dealing with EU enlargement and relations with other neighboring countries.


Conference Co-Sponsors

Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, via del Valco San Paolo, Università Roma Tre, Roma

Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Publications

Marriage & Family Review ISSN: 0149-4929 (Print) 1540-9635 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wmfr20

Dialectics of tradition and modernity in private spaces: the ordeal of girl child abuse in modern India https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01494929.2019.1637385

Effects of Market-Based Development on Women’s Empowerment: Impact on Families https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01494929.2019.1651809