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Latest NewsPermanent Representative of the Mission of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay to the U.N. in GenevaOn May 31, 2010, the Geneva School of Diplomacy received a visit from Her Excellency, Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Permanent Representative of the Mission of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay to the U.N. in Geneva. International Conference in Bern, SwitzerlandDr. Alfred de Zayas, GSD Professor of International Law and former senior UN official, was a speaker at a press conference held by the Commission for Commemorating the Armenian Genocide. |
Professor Ilise Feitshans28th January 2010
ILISE L FEITSHANS JD and SCM is a bilingual jurisprude of global public health efforts to protect occupational health as a human right. Prof. Feitshans’ writings about international law of health in the workplace as a human right antedate the recent activities this field after the Cold War—she wrote about it in college and in law school when opinion leaders viewed health as at odds with civil and political rights. Her clear and unflinching vision of health at work as a human right that is a necessary condition for survival of all civil society was first demonstrated in her Senior Scholars Honors Thesis for Barnard College Columbia University (NYC). Her thesis became the blueprint for teaching at Columbia University School of Law, (1990-95); for her graduate thesis about the autonomous rights of pregnant women for Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health (1996) and her treatise DESIGNING AN EFFECTIVE OSHA COMPLIANCE PROGRAM (Westlaw, updated annually since 1990). These topics are also discussed in her book “Bringing Health to Work” and “Occupational Health as a Human Right” in the 4th edition ILO Encyclopaedia (1995). As second generation Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ilise has written Amicus briefs in US Supreme Court cases regarding discrimination against people with disabilities, (2007) sterilization of female workers in lead battery plants, (1990) the occupational health implications of risk of harm to oneself under disability laws (2003) and disenfranchisement of voters (2000). Her multimedia skills include serving as executive producer for videos “Lessons Learned: Centuries of Occupational Health Laws” (1998) and “OSHA 35 Still Alive! (2006) created for Digital 2000 productions in Stafford Texas. Courses taught: “Fundamentals of Health in International Relations”, and “Gender and Globalization”
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