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Human rights are rights and freedoms inherent to all human beings without discrimination on the basis of nationality, ethnic origin, gender, creed, religion, language or any other distinction. The panel discussion is designed to promote understanding and recognition of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. Moderated by Law Librarian of Congress Roberta I. Shaffer, the panel will include Helen Stacy of Stanford Law School; Betsy Kanalley of the US Forest Service; and Kelly Buchanan and Stephen Clarke of the Law Library of Congress. Stacy is a senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where she coordinates the human rights program and is a scholar of international and comparative law, human rights and legal philosophy. Kanalley is assistant manager for geospatial services at US Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, where she coordinates various federal Geographic Data Committee activities within the agency and with external partners. Buchanan is a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Australia, New Zealand, independent Pacific Island nations, Indonesia and Malaysia. She is also a member of a team of writers for the Law Library's blog, "In Custodia Legis" (blogs.loc.gov/law/). Clarke is a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada, Ireland, Commonwealth ...