Anita Sharma is the North American coordinator for the United Nations Millennium Campaign. Previously, she was the executive director of ENOUGH, an initiative of the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group to abolish genocide and mass atrocities. She served as governance advisor in Indonesia with the Office of the United Nations Recovery Coordinator and has held international posts in Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Kosovo. She directed the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center and has also worked for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Anita is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds degrees from Syracuse University and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Millennium Campaign asks, how can a human rights framework address underlying causes of poverty?
