Podcast appearances and mentions of elisa massimino

Steering Committee member Jill Morrison chats with Elisa Massimino, former Director of Human Rights First and the current director of Georgetown's Human Rights Institute. Tune in to hear the latest on developments in business and human rights, protection of human rights defenders, and the Ukraine crisis, as well as highlights from Massimino's amazing career. Please note, the positions and opinions expressed by the speakers are strictly their own, and do not necessarily represent the views of their employers, nor those of the D.C. Bar, its Board of Governors or co-sponsoring Communities and organizations.

Elisa Massimino of The Center for American Progress joins us to talk about the staggering refugee crisis in Ukraine, how quickly it has happened, how it has surpassed and and all projections, and what the democracies of the world need to do to address it.Call-in at 1-866-416-RICK (7425) to join the show.Did you miss part of the #RickShow on your local radio station? Want to listen at work? Download the podcast at: https://www.thericksmithshow.com.The Rick Smith Show also streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch, and you can also find us on Free Speech TV. Be sure to add the FSTV channel on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, on the FSTV iOS app, or find it in the regular channel lineup on DirecTV or Dish.Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

More than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, the fastest-moving refugee crisis in Europe since the end of World War II. The massive displacement of millions of people threatens not only a humanitarian disaster, but an ongoing challenge for European nations and the United States. Elisa Massimino is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown Law. She led a team that recently issued a report titled “What the European Union and United States Need to Do to Address the Migration Crisis in Ukraine.” Photo by Kevin Bückert on Unsplash

In this episode of Justice Matters, Elisa Massimino, former CEO and Executive Director of Human Rights First, discusses immigration policy, refugee rights, and the continued impact of Guantanamo with Carr Center's Executive Director Sushma Raman. "Most Americans want to live up to our ideals of being a welcoming country…respecting human rights and human dignity for anyone who wants to come and work hard…Most people understand that this is good for the country...But we need to have political courage for this to happen."

In this episode of Justice Matters, Elisa Massimino, former CEO and Executive Director of Human Rights First, discusses immigration policy, refugee rights, and the continued impact of Guantanamo with Carr Center's Executive Director Sushma Raman. "Most Americans want to live up to our ideals of being a welcoming country…respecting human rights and human dignity for anyone who wants to come and work hard…Most people understand that this is good for the country...But we need to have political courage for this to happen."

The black letter law and articles in this episode are: United nations General Assembly, Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment, G.A. Res. 39/46, December 10, 1984, https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cat.aspx Torture Victim Protection Act 0f 1991, Pub. L. no. 102-256, 106 Stat. 73, (codified as amended in 28 U.S.C. § 1350, https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/2092/text George Tenant, At the Center of the Storm; The CIA During America’s Time of Crisis, Harper Collins Publishers (2009), https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061738197/at-the-center-of-the-storm/ Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar, It’s Our Cage, Too, Washington Post, May 17, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051602395.html?noredirect=on John Bellinger, Richard Fontaine, To Strengthen Trump’s National Security Approach, Promote Human Rights, LawfareBlog, January 10, 2018, https://www.lawfareblog.com/strengthen-trumps-national-security-approach-promote-human-rights Carne y Arena Exhibit https://carneyarenadc.com/ Elisa Massimino is a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/elisa-massimino

The black letter law and articles in this episode are: United Nations General Assembly, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948, http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ United Nations General Assembly, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, G.A. Res 2106, December 21, 1965, https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cerd.aspx United Nations General Assembly, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, G.A. Res. 34/180, December 18, 1979, https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/cedaw.pdf United Nations General Assembly, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI), December 16, 1966, https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx United Nations General Assembly, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI), December 16, 1966, https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cescr.aspx Temporary Protected Status, https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status Mary Ann Glendon, A World Made New; Eleanor Roosevelt and the universal Declaration of Human Rights, Penguin Random House (2002), https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/60804/a-world-made-new-by-mary-ann-glendon/9780375760464/ Elisa Massimino is a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/people/elisa-massimino

Headlines about family separation and border walls have dominated the media and beg the question of where the current administration stands on international human rights. In this report from On The Road at ABA Annual Meeting 2018, host Laurence Colletti talks to Elisa Massimino about international human rights and how these rights have fared under the Trump Administration. They discuss how this administration differs from other administrations in regards to refugees and the treatment of immigrants and what it could potentially do differently to encourage better international relations. Elisa Massimino is president and chief executive officer of Human Rights First.

Elisa Massimino, president and chief executive officer of Human Rights First, leads a class session on the relationship between human rights and national security. This class was part of the 2017 National Security Law Institute at UVA Law. (University of Virginia School of Law, June 8, 2017)

Ashton Kutcher of Thorn and Elisa Massimino of Human Rights First testified about their anti-trafficking work and gave recommendations to Bob Corker's Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 15, 2017. Hosts Seth Daire and JJ Janflone share highlights and discuss  post-trafficking services and labor trafficking in supply chains. Sources: https://www.c-span.org/video/?424036-1/ashton-kutcher-testifies-modern-slavery-human-trafficking https://www.wearethorn.org http://www.projectvic.org http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/campaigns/bankrupt-slavery https://polarisproject.org/befree-textline  

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Joe Patrice speaks with Immigration Law Clinic Associate Director Holly Cooper and Human Rights First President and Chief Executive Elisa Massimino about their panel covering legal issues surrounding the world immigration crisis. Elisa shares that the panel was framed around the concept of a global refugee crisis, which is the largest the world has faced since World War II. She states that the current situation puts huge demands on countries like the United States to provide leadership and that it’s important for us to remember that the crisis itself is less about refugees and more about the failure of governments to live up to their obligations under international law and provide refugees the protection to which they're entitled. Holly focuses on some of the overlooked issues of our domestic policy and mentions that many Americans are unaware that we’ve seen one of the largest surges of refugees on our borders as well, but from a mostly Central American demographic. She talks about how Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala currently have some of the highest homicide rates of anywhere in the world that isn’t a war zone and emphasizes that our lack of domestic response, stigmatization, and privatization of the detention arena has incentivized the economics of a refugee crisis here in our own country. Both guests discuss how xenophobia can cultivate a climate that promotes radicalization and they close the interview with their thoughts on the importance of facilitating trust between law enforcement and immigrant communities. Elisa Massimino is president and chief executive officer of Human Rights First. She joined as a staff attorney in 1991 and served as the organization’s Washington Director from 1997 to 2008. Previously, Massimino was a litigator in private practice at the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where she was pro bono counsel in many human rights cases. She holds a law degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. Holly Cooper is the associate director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. and is a nationally-recognized expert on immigration detention issues and on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Cooper is a graduate of UC Davis School of Law, where she was on the Board of the King Hall Legal Foundation and an active member of the National Lawyers Guild. She received her B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. As an undergraduate, she also studied Political Science and Economics at the University of Padua in Italy. She speaks, reads, and writes in both Spanish and Italian.

The plight of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees has long drawn international concern. Aid organizations rally to support displaced populations and governments debate policies for dealing with those who arrive on their borders. In the last year, the global refugee crisis reached endemic proportions. The civil war in Syria continues to force people from their homes, as does instability elsewhere in the Middle East, and in Africa and Latin America. The number of forcibly displaced people has reached its highest levels since World War II, and as the root causes of this displacement continue we’ll likely see the numbers continue to rise. At World Affairs, we have convened many voices on this topic in the past few years. Here, we share insights from seven individuals who have joined us to discuss the global crisis of refugees. In this episode, you’ll hear from Filippo Grandi, the newly appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee; Vali Nasr, Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations; Yves Daccord, Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Elisa Massimino, president and CEO of Human Rights First; and Nancy Lindborg, president of the United States Institute of Peace.

In recent months, a resurgence of extremist, ultranationalist and antisemitic violence has shaken many cities in Europe. Coupled with the growth of right-wing political parties, this outbreak of violence - and the environment that enables it - threatens to corrode the fundamental values of the European Union from within. Discrimination against Jews, Roma, immigrant populations and the LGBT community has emerged not only among the civilian population, but in the political sphere as well. A year ago in the European Parliament elections, voters in half of the European Union’s 28 countries elected representatives from far-right parties whose leaders have expressed antisemitic, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, anti-Muslim or anti-Roma sentiments. Human Rights First President and CEO Elisa Massimino will discuss how the rise of extremism in Europe is threatening liberal democracy and the human rights and security of minority communities, endangering the transatlantic trade agreement and making it more difficult for Europe to address the growing migration crisis. Speaker Elisa Massimino is the President and CEO of Human Rights First. Katerina Linos, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law moderates the discussion. For more information about this event please visit: http://www.worldaffairs.org/event-calendar/event/1470