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In this episode of Repast, Diana is joined as co-host by Lavanya Sathyamurthy, UCLA Law student and co-founder of the Food, Race, and Equity Initiative. Diana and Lavanya talk with Professor Denisse Córdova Montes from the University of Central Florida.  Here, the three discuss Professor Córdova Montes' career as a human rights advocate and educator, her work as the Acting Associate Director of the University of Miami School of Law's Human Rights Clinic, and a human rights approach to the right to food, among other things. Professor Córdova Montes is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida.  Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law. You can find blog posts about the Food, Race, and Equity Initiative at UCLA Law here and here. You can find Professor Córdova Montes' Maine Law Review article on the Maine right to food here. You can find a link to the National Right to Food Community of Practice's website here. You can find the article titled The “Second Amendment of Food”: Some Reflections on American Liberalism, commented on in the podcast, here.    

In a ruling on July 19, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion that confirmed what Palestinians have been saying for over 7 decades: That the Israeli occupation is illegal, that the way Palestinians are treated by Israel is a form of apartheid, and that the occupation must end.This ruling includes the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which have grown especially since the Israeli military withdrew from Gaza in 2005.As we are approaching 300 days of the genocide in Gaza and over 40,000 deaths at the hands of the US-funded and armed Israeli military, we wanted to talk more about the ICJ and this ruling. An ICJ advisory opinion cannot force a country to act, but can have a real impact on how the rest of the world approaches policy towards Israel.We're joined by Laith Aqel, human rights lawyer, a lecturer in the Human Rights Clinic at Yale and an organizer with the CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition.And later in the show, just days after the ICJ ruling Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in front of the US Congress as over 10,000 people rallied outside the Capitol. We'll bring you some of the speeches from that rally as well.Support the Show.

We're delighted to welcome back Poppy Alexander, a founding partner at the law firm Whistleblower Partners, a law firm dedicated to representing whistleblowers reporting fraud and misconduct in:·      Healthcare·      Procurement·      Securities and Commodities·      Taxes·      Money Laundering and Sanctions Evasion·      Customs·      Environmental Remediation·      Vehicle SafetyPoppy represents whistleblowers and government entities in qui tam lawsuits, as well as under the various agency whistleblower programs including those administered by the Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission, FinCEN, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Department of Transportation.  Poppy's practice focuses on issues of international corruption and financial misconduct, with a specialty in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering cases.  She writes and speaks regularly about emerging topics in financial fraud, including sanctions violations, SPACs, and cryptocurrency.We last spoke with Poppy back in July of 2022 when she had already established an impressive track record representing whistleblowers at Constantine Cannon. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2012. She was the co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and an active participant in the Human Rights Clinic, working on issues related to corporate accountability for human rights violations in Africa and military abuses in Southeast Asia. She was awarded the Dean's Award for Community Leadership in recognition for her contributions to the school community. Poppy has been named to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list every year since 2016. Prior to law school, Poppy worked on election reform issues before beginning graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied political and critical theory. We've invited Poppy here tonight to talk about her new work, and her new firm, Whisteblower Partners.Topics Discussed Include:Poppy's new law firm, Whistleblower Partners. Why Poppy left her old firm to establish this new legal partnership in March 2024.  She describes a comprehensive approach to whistleblowers and not just file cases. The laws Whistleblower Partners uses in environmental cases and how they have changed since the episode we published in July 2023. Qui tam False Claims Act, SEC, IRS, Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), and various wildlife protection laws. Examples of Whistleblower Partners victories.Pitfalls of whistleblowing and filing lawsuits and administrative tips programs.Further Reading / Support the Show.Visit us at climatemoneywatchdog.org!

On January 21st, police forcibly entered the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, arresting over 200 people including students pulled from their dormitories. Free to Think speaks with Salvador Herencia-Carrasco about his work with colleagues inside and outside Peru to free students from unlawful detention and to defend academic freedom and university autonomy.  Hernencia-Carrasco is director of the Human Rights Clinic of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and leading member of Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA).

The trouble for Rolland Carroll started last fall. That's when the 61-year-old said his apartment complex in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, informed him that his federal housing aid for his one-bedroom apartment had been reduced months ago. He owed more than $2,000 in back rent. “I was in shock,” Carroll said. “Like, how the heck could I owe this amount of money without you guys saying something months ago?” Carroll doesn't own a car and works odd jobs through a local temp agency. He struggled to pay the back rent and come up with $339 for his portion of the monthly rent. “November and December – there had been hardly any work at all. So I was in a real bind,” he said. A few days after Christmas, his apartment complex filed to evict him. Carroll said he was worried because local shelters were full and he has many chronic health issues that cost money. “I'm diabetic. I have arthritis. I have asthma. I'm just a total mess,” he said. With the help of nonprofit Iowa Legal Aid, Carroll successfully got the case dismissed at his hearing in mid-January because his apartment failed to give him sufficient notice. Now, he said he's still struggling to pay rent and his apartment continues to send him notices threatening to file another eviction. It's taking a toll on his health. “I've been so darn stressed out,” Carroll said. “My mental health is really poor at the moment.” Eviction as a health issue With the end of pandemic-era housing support like eviction moratoriums and federal rental assistance, many Midwesterners face housing insecurity. Eviction filings in Iowa have been increasing for the past decade. After a short dip in 2020 and 2021, they hit a record high of more than 18,000 in 2022, according to Iowa Legal Aid data. The eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended in mid-2021. And Iowa – like most states – ended its federally-funded emergency rent and utility program last year. “Rent makes up a huge portion of the household expenses,” said Nick Graetz, a postdoctoral research associate with Princeton University's Eviction Lab. “And it's just been spiking at unprecedented rates during the pandemic. But rents have been outpacing wages for decades.” Since March 2020, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment has increased 13% percent in Iowa, nearly 18% percent in Missouri and more than 26% percent in Indiana, according to the U.S. News and World Report. Eviction filings are trending upward in Indiana and Missouri, too. Facing eviction can take a huge toll on someone's health, Graetz said. “The result is that people go from paying 60% of their income on rent to 70% of their income on rent, and sort of just have to absorb that cost by forgoing things like preventative health care, facing higher food insecurity, you know, things like that,” he said. According to a literature review published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, studies have tied eviction to depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and child maltreatment. A 2021 study published in the journal Pediatrics found women in Georgia who faced eviction during pregnancies were more likely to have children with lower birth weights. Chronic health issues or a health emergency can also put a renter at higher risk for eviction. “It's hard when you're trying to navigate something like that, “Graetz said. “Maybe [you] fall behind on rent, and then you can quickly get into this space where it becomes really difficult to avoid an eviction filing.” Possible legislative help Federal and state lawmakers have proposed a variety of policy solutions to combat evictions, including new tenant protections and expanding emergency rental assistance programs. Iowa lawmakers have allocated more than $300 million for tax credits to incentivize developers to build affordable housing. Minnesota lawmakers are considering a rent voucher program that could help 220,000 households. However, it's often unclear which policies are most effective, said Katie Moran-McCabe, the lead law and policy analyst at Temple University's Center for Public Health Law Research. “We often don't see those laws being evaluated,” she said. “So is the law working? Is it doing what it's intended to do? Are there any unintended consequences?” Nonprofit programs step up One growing solution has been eviction diversion programs, like the eviction diversion help desk program run by Iowa Legal Aid. The nonprofit launched the program in spring 2020, which placed an eviction help desk in the courthouse of Polk County, Iowa's most populous county. Similar programs exist in Illinois and Missouri. The rapid rise in requests for eviction assistance compelled the Iowa Legal Aid to reshuffle its priorities, executive director Nick Smithberg said. “Basically, it's structurally changed our organization,” he said. “Where historically housing work was about a quarter of our caseload, it's risen to half.” Since 2020, the program expanded to five other county courthouses. Smithberg said he would like to see it in more. “I think that we're going to see a very, very disturbing time in the history of this state,” he said. “It's just an all-time record. I don't think people have seen the effects of something like this for a sustained period of time. And I think that it's going to be very eye-opening for a lot of folks when you start seeing people out on the streets.” Eviction is a civil proceeding, which means defendants are not constitutionally guaranteed the right to an attorney the way they are when facing criminal charges. In the Midwest, only a handful of cities in Ohio, Missouri and Minnesota legally guarantee renters facing eviction a right to an attorney. Most renters fighting evictions – who are disproportionately women, people of color and those with disabilities – rely on programs, like Iowa Legal Aid, if they're available. Jon Biderman, an attorney with Iowa Legal Aid who helps run the eviction help desk at the Linn County courthouse in eastern Iowa, said his job is often to work out a deal with landlords so renters can have more time to come up with a plan. He wants to help tenants avoid adding an eviction to their record, which can make finding housing much more difficult. “Homelessness – being put out – is such a crisis for a person that if you're able to prevent that, or even buy them a week, that can really make a difference in a person's life,” he said. Other programs like the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law have also shifted their priorities away from other health care-related cases, like access to insurance and affordable prescription drugs, to focus more on housing. “Originally we did mostly access-to-health care type work,” said Fran Quigley, a clinical professor at IU, who directs the clinic. “But during the pandemic, the most critical need we saw in our community was responding to housing.” Quigley said it's going to take much more than eviction diversion programs like his to tackle this growing public health crisis. He said he'd like to see major policy changes, like stronger tenant protection laws and much more funding behind federal housing vouchers, to keep people in their homes. “We, as a nation, make a mistake of treating housing as a commodity and not a right,” he said. This story comes from a collaboration between Side Effects Public Media, based at WFYI, and the Midwest Newsroom — an investigative journalism collaboration including IPR, KCUR 89.3, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.

The mass shooting at the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, CA has sparked conversation about the significance of the Presbyterian Church for many Taiwanese individuals. Annie and Angela interview Christine Lin, a lawyer and expert on the history and influence of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan who also conducts research on Taiwanese American identity. The hosts also share their own experiences with Christianity.Featuring Christine Lin:Respond to Christine's current research: “Survey of Taiwanese Americans on Identity Issues”, 2022“The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Advocacy of Local Autonomy” (PDF) by Christine Louise Lin for Sino-Platonic Papers, 1999“What Impacts a Taiwanese Americans' Political Identity?” by Christine Lin for Chinese America: History & Perspectives–The Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America, Special Issue: Taiwanese Americans, 2017Christine Lin quoted in “Gunman Targets Taiwanese Faith With Long Pro-Democracy Link” (Associated Press)Contact Christine Lin on LinkedInAbout Christine: Christine Lin is a Taiwanese American lawyer. Her research on the topic of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan inspired her to pursue a career in human rights, refugee, and immigration law. Currently, she is the Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies based at UC Hastings College of the Law where she has taught the Refugee & Human Rights Clinic. Previously, she was the Legal Director of Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre and taught refugee legal assistance clinics at the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.More resources:Major branches of Christianity (Wikipedia)Presbyterian Church USA allows same-sex marriages (NPR, 2015)Related episode: “Taiwanese by the Numbers” (Hearts in Taiwan, August 5, 2021)New York Times interview that consulted Christine Lin and interviewed Annie and Angela: "Coming From Separate Worlds in Taiwan, They Collided at California Church" (https://nyti.ms/3mDXG2q)Connect:instagram.com/heartsintaiwanfacebook.com/heartsintaiwanbuymeacoffee.com/heartsintaiwan ← Buy us a boba!heartsintaiwan.com

Welcome to LawTalk, a podcast series produced by the University of Minnesota Law School featuring events, webinars, and panel discussions about diverse topics at the intersection of law, policy, and education. On this episode, The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law and its Impact on Asylum-Seekers, Professor Steve Meili analyzes how lawyers representing asylum-seekers in five countries (Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and the United States) have bridged the gap between the constitutionalization of human rights law as written to protecting asylum-seekers on the ground Professor Meili's talk is based on his forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, “The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law: Implications for Refugees” Professor Meili is the James H. Michael Professor of International Human Rights Law. His research focuses on the rights of non-citizens, particularly refugees and asylum-seekers. He is the Director of the Law School's Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, where students represent asylum-seekers and human trafficking survivors. This event was recorded on April 14th, 2022. It is also available for viewing on the Minnesota Law YouTube channel. (https://youtu.be/HP-EKcrxNeo) Find the transcript of this episode at: https://z.umn.edu/Ep19Transcript Learn more about the University of Minnesota Law School by visiting law.umn.edu and following Minnesota Law on Twitter twitter.com/UofMNLawSchool.

Fran Quigley, the author of Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better World (Orbis Books) joins the conversation to discuss the long history of socialism in religious communities. In this conversation we focus on the legacy of socialistic Christians (predating the term by 1700 years or so) going all the way back to the book of Acts and the early Church Fathers. We also got to talking about the greats, from Eugene Debs to Cornel West, Angela Cowser and Colleen Shaddox.  We also feature a long (and persuasive, I might add) pitch to join the DSA's Religion and Socialism Working Group! About Fran Quigley: A longtime human rights activist and member of faith-based and health care access advocacy groups, Fran Quigley is a clinical professor at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where he directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic.  Follow Fran Quigley on Twitter Check out CH Podcast Booking Service Follow Casey's substack Rate/Review on Apple Podcasts Support us on Patreon and win a book! Music: Orbach Art: Phil Nellis

  Do you want to build a career in human rights, but you don't know where to even begin?  Lindsay Harris shares:     - How she built her career in human rights focused on supporting refugees, including those from Afghanistan. - How to create trauma informed training for students and practitioners and why it's important to take care of our mental health.   - How she found her own voice and gives herself grace when others don't like what she has to say.     Connect with Lindsay at linkedin.com/in/lindsay-m-harris-4737474 on Twitter @Prof_LMHarris.

Хімсекс - це секс під дією наркотичних чи інших речовин, що змінюють свідомість. Явище не нове, але через появу дешевих та легкодоступних наркотиків почало формуватися у певний тренд. Наркотики в сексуальних практиках використовують давно. Роблять це як гомомосексуальні, так і гетересексальні люди. Психоактивні речовини змінюють поведінку, в тому числі сексуальну, тому їх вживають для зниження хвилювання, більшої розкутості та заради нових відчуттів. У стані зміненої свідомості людині важче контролювати себе і свої бажання. Тему хімсексу та його ризиків розкривають гості студії - Андрій Радецький, амбасадор охорони здоров'я, голова правління Громадська організація "ПРОЖЕКТОР" та Віталій Матвеєв, адвокат, керівник Human Rights Clinic у Громадська організація "ПРОЖЕКТОР"

*From time to time we'll re-air a previous episode of the show that our newer audience may have missed.* In this episode of Her Story, we sit down with Dr. Coleen Kivlahan, Head of Primary Care and Professor of Family Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. We learn about Dr. Kivlahan's long-standing dedication to serving underserved patient populations, and courageous approach to building more equitable systems of care, domestically and internationally.

Producer/Host: Steve Wessler -Can the surviving victims of genocide and the aggressors work together? -Is there hope that the two sides can reach peace? Guests: Felix Hageniamana, Immigration lawyer in Portland ME. Felix is an attorney whose law firm Hagenimana Law specializes in immigration law. Felix has previously worked as a linguist, translator, and consultant for the BBC and a student attorney in the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. A graduate of the University of Maine Law School, Felix works as an Asylum Outreach Attorney at the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) in addition to managing his own law firm. Azur Imširovi?, consultant on human rights issues in Bosnia Herzegovina and in other countries Holds a BA in English and French studies from the University of Zagreb, Croatia and a MA in Comparative Politics from the University of York, United Kingdom. He has worked for more than fifteen years in the fields of human rights, democratization, security stabilization, judicial reform and elections in international organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and North Macedonia. Currently Azur works as an independent analyst and contributor specializing in post conflict political development and human rights issues in the Western Balkans. About the host: Steve Wessler will soon will be starting his 28th year of working on human right issues. He founded the Civil Rights Unit in the Maine Attorney’s Office in 1992 and led the Unit for 7 years. In 1999 he left the formal practice of law and founded the Center for the Prevention of Hate. The Center worked in Maine and across the USA. He and his colleagues worked to reduce bias and harassment in schools, in communities, in health care organization through workshops and conflict resolution. The Center closed in 2011 and Steve began a consulting on human rights issues. For the next 5 years much of his work was in Europe, developing and implementing training curricular for police, working in communities to reduce the risk of hate crimes, conflict resolution between police and youth. He has worked in over 20 countries. In late 2016 he began to work more in Maine, with a focus on reducing anti-immigrant bias. He continues to work in schools to reduce bias and harassment. Wessler teaches courses on human rights issues at the College of the Atlantic, the University of Maine at Augusta and at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in northern Virginia.

In this episode, we welcome Isaac Won, a lawyer in the Community Law Program with the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS). Isaac discusses access to justice reform initiatives, public interest work, and his current advocacy work at CLAS. During law school, Isaac volunteered extensively with the Law Students Legal Advice Program, providing legal representation and advice to low income and vulnerable individuals. Isaac completed his articles with CLAS in May 2018 and worked with the Mental Health Law Program and the Human Rights Clinic before joining the Community Law Program in 2020. We discuss a number of initiatives, legal terms, and external resources in this episode, all of which can be found in this document: https://bit.ly/3344CvY

In this episode, we pass the mic to Jamila S. Little. Ms. Little is an attorney licensed to practice law in Florida, and in the Caribbean. Her practice areas include immigration, criminal defense, personal injury, and business law. Jamila continues to represent her clients in State court and Federal Immigration court as an immigration attorney in Tampa Bay. She hails from the beautiful twin isle of Trinidad and Tobago. Jamila graduated with honors from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, where she majored in Economics and minored in Business Administration. She obtained her Masters in Business Administration (MBA), with a concentration in Finance, from Clark Atlanta University School of Business. She worked in the Banking and Finance Industry for several years prior to becoming an attorney. She received her Juris Doctorate from Florida International University College of Law in Miami, FL. Jamila served as a Certified Legal Intern with Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office, in the felony division, and with Florida International University Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. She was also a member of the Florida International University Board of Advocates and a law school Ambassador. As a Florida Bar Fellow, Jamila worked at Catholic Charities Legal Services in Miami, FL, where she assisted with several immigration cases. #DiversityAccessPipeline, #JourneytoEsquire, #DiversityandInclusion, #Scholarship, #Diversity, #Excellence, #FloridaBar, #FloridaAttorney, #YoungLawyer, #Florida, #LawSchool, #FloridaLawyer, #FloridaBarYoungLawyersDivision, #barexam, #barexamprep, #BarBri, #kaplan, #themis, #agape, #barprep, #deepfocus, #studymusic, #ambient, #concentration, #adhd --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journey-to-esquire/support

Paul has a frank and sobering conversation with Dr. Coleen Kivlahan, Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine, who is a local and global expert and leader in Refugee, Immigrant, Asylum and Human Rights Medicine. Her name may sound familiar as she was a previous guest on Hippie Docs 2.0, talking about her own experience as a patient with Covid-19.  In this episode, Dr. Kivlahan describes her work in Sierra Leone, Guatemala, the DRC, Syria, and in the US, bringing large scale and personal atrocities to light and justice.  Mass graves and the body tell the stories, and doctors — using forensics— serve as a powerful force in an attempt to answer the twin questions of "how?" and "why?" did these things happen? Dr. Kivlahan also talks about her role as an educator and leader of UCSF's Human Rights Clinic, which painstakingly documents both physical and psychological wounds in immigrant asylum-seekers.  At the same time, the medical students, faculty, and staff working there perform the equally important work of emotionally supporting these immigrants, many of whom suffered unimaginable trauma in their home countries.   She is partially inspired to do this work by her early experiences, growing up one of six children in a working class family, living in a small northern Ohio steel town, with no health insurance.  But it was her gut-wrenching experience as a young physician, fresh out of residency, which charted her path as a reliever of suffering, truth-teller, and policy maker. She speaks about the deadliness of silence, the importance of bearing witness and how small acts of kindness can create hope. Join us for our latest episode in our quest to re-humanize medicine.    

After exit polls from the November election showed 72% of voters wanted Medicare for All, Medicare for All Indiana and the Religious Socialism Committee of Central Indiana DSA convened on November 24th a Multifaith Forum on Medicare for All, recorded and available as our podcast episode. Panelists discussing their faith’s shared commitment to universal healthcare as a moral imperative included: Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader, Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation; Rev. David W. Greene, Sr., Purpose of Life Ministries (Second Baptist) and President, Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis; Hebah Kassem, Muslim Medicare for All Activist and DSA member; and Fr. Charles Allen, Episcopal Priest and Member, Religious Socialism Committee of Central Indiana DSA. The moderator was Fran Quigley, director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law and member of the Religious Socialism Working Group and Central Indiana DSA.

Today, we speak with Professor Karen Musalo about changes to the U.S. asylum system since the pandemic hit. Professor Musalo is the founding director of the UC Hastings Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. She has contributed to the evolving jurisprudence of asylum law through her scholarship, as well as her litigation of landmark cases.

No Recourse to Public Funds is a key part of the UK government's Hostile Environment policy, designed and intended to make the lives of illegal immigrants difficult. In this episode, Kimberly Garande of We Belong and Andy Jolly of the University of Wolverhampton join Daragh Murray to discuss the impact that NRPF has on migrants' lives, and how hostile environment policies more widely have turned regular people, from NHS workers to school teachers, into agents of border enforcement. Plus, Koldo Casla of the University of Essex explains how the No Recourse to Public Funds policy puts the UK in breach of its international human rights obligations. Kimberly Garande was born in Zimbabwe and migrated to the UK aged 9. She now works as Outreach Officer at We Belong, an organisation of young UK migrants campaigning for a shorter, more affordable route to settlement. Andy Jolly is Research Associate at the Institute for Community Research and Development, University of Wolverhampton. He is a qualified social worker who previously led a project working with families with No Recourse to Public Funds. Koldo Casla is a lecturer at Essex Law School and Deputy Director of the Human Rights Clinic. He previously worked on social and economic rights in the UK at Just Fair.

Fighting anti-Zionism in progressive spaces. Amanda Berman is the Founder and Executive Director of the Zioness Movement, a new initiative empowering and activating Zionists on the progressive left to stand proudly in social justice spaces as Jews and Zionists. Until she recently made the transition to focusing exclusively on building the much-needed Zioness community, Amanda was also a civil rights attorney fighting anti-Semitism legally, spearheading such groundbreaking initiatives as the international action against Kuwait Airways for its discrimination against Israeli nationals, and the dual cases against San Francisco State University for its constitutional and civil rights violations against Jewish and Israeli students and community members. ​ Amanda writes on Jewish and civil rights issues and is a media contributor across various mediums and outlets. She has spoken and presented before diverse audiences including Hadassah, JNF, B'nei Brith, Jewish Federation, AIPAC, JCRC, Hillel, and many others. She is a graduate of the Anti-Defamation League's Glass Leadership Institute, the recipient of Hadassah's prestigious Myrtle Wreath Award, and was listed by the Algemeiner as one of the top "100 people positively contributing to Jewish life" in 2018. She previously served for 5 years as an Executive Board Member at Friends of the IDF, Young Leadership NY. Amanda graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Diplomatic History and a Master of Governmental Administration and received her Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Public Service Scholar; served in the Bet Tzedek Legal Services Clinic, providing legal services to the underrepresented; served in the Advanced Human Rights Clinic, providing legal services to immigrants and refugees; sat on the Executive Board of the Cardozo Advocates for Battered Women; and was a Fellow in the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Clinic. She practiced securities litigation at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP before dedicating her career to the advancement and protection of the Jewish people and the Zionist community.

Talia Markowitz, MPH, from the Human Rights Clinic at HealthRight International speaks about her organization's mission to empower marginalized communities to live healthy lives and the services it provides.

HealthRight and I AM GPH have partnered to bring you this 4-part podcast series profiling four different Frontline health workers (FHWs) and their work in four different countries. There has been a spike in the number of women and children fleeing violence and seeking asylum in the United States. HealthRight's Human Rights Clinic, based in NYC, assists asylum seekers who have survived violence and human rights violations by providing forensic examinations, which document the physical and psychological signs of violence. Dr. Silverman is a clinical psychologist and volunteer with the Human Rights Clinic who conducts forensic exams for child and adolescent survivors of violence. He is a FHW and this is his story.  As a global health NGO focused on health system strengthening for marginalized populations, much of HealthRight's work is devoted to building the capacity of FHWs to better meet the needs of the communities they serve. These are some of those stories. This podcast series is hosted by Dr. Peter Navario, Executive Director of HealthRight and Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's College of Global Public Health.  Frontline health workers play an essential role in the prevention, identification and response to ill-health globally. For marginalized communities in particular, FHWs are the only link between them and the health system. Investment in FHWs has been shown to be a highly cost-effective way to ensure healthier, safer communities around the world.  For more information about HealthRight and its programs please visit: www.healthright.org or visit them on Twitter or Instagram. To learn more about the NYU College of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

Laura is a human rights lawyer and the Director of Education in Community Legal Assistance Society's Human Rights Clinic. She advocates on behalf of people who have experienced discrimination and assists complainants to navigate BC's human rights process. Laura also has a strong interest in making legal knowledge accessible. She delivers workshops and presentations to a wide variety of audiences to help people understand their human rights and comply with their legal obligations.

Today, a panel of immigration lawyers joins Tom to discuss the Trump Administration’s ----zero tolerance---- immigration policies. Today is the court-ordered deadline for the government to re-unite migrant children under the age of five with their families, most of whom were detained for crossing the US border illegally. It’s a deadline that will not be met for at least 40 of the more than 100 infants and toddlers who have been separated from their parents. A District Court Judge has also denied an Administration motion to extend the time the government is allowed to detain children past the current 20-day limit. So, what’s next for the 3,000 minors who have been separated from their families? Tom's guests are:Anne Chandler, the executive director of the Houston office of the Tahirih Justice Center, a Washington, DC based group that provides legal and other services for women and girls seeking refuge from violence in their home countries. She joins us on the phone from Houston;Ofelia Calderon joins us from the studios of NPR in Washington, DC. She is an immigration activist and a lawyer in private practice in Virginia; And on the line from New Orleans, Professor Lindsay Harris, who teaches at the University of the District of Columbia's David A. Clarke School of Law, and co-directs UDC’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic.Our guests also address listeners' questions and comments.

Victorian diseases eradicated long ago with the advent of antibiotics are making an unlikely comeback across the pond. You heard that right - scurvy and other illnesses related to malnutrition are now having devastating effects on thousands of families as hunger and hardship have spiked, following eight years of austerity cuts in the U.K. To discuss the state of the U.K.'s austerity cuts - which lawmakers in Washington would be wise to consider a cautionary tale as they debate a Farm Bill that would strip 2 million Americans of meager yet vital food assistance - Rebecca talks with Mary O'Hara, a columnist with The Guardian and the author ofAusterity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp Edge of Cuts in the UK. Later in the show, some 1 in 4 Americans report difficulty affording necessary prescription drugs, as prices have skyrocketed in recent years. In response to this growing crisis, a range of lawmakers in Congress have called for legislation to curb rising drug costs, and states have begun to take action as well, with Vermont's legislature last week passing a bill to allow the state to import prescription drugs from Canada. To dig into what drives rising drug prices - and what we can do to bring their cost down - Rebecca speaks with Fran Quigley, who coordinates of People of Faith for Access to Medicines and serves as a clinical professor in the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University's School of Law. But first, Jeremy Slevin, aka the Slevinator, returns with the latest on the Farm Bill debate (and his cat mitzvah!) and other news of the week, in another installment of In Case You Missed It.

In this episode, we speak with Lauren Pesso, LMSW, MPA, the former Director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at HealthRight International. She talks about her work with asylum seekers and victims of torture, and provides resources for students who would like to get involved with health and human rights organizations around New York City. To learn more about the NYU College of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

On this Labor Day weekend, Fran Quigley will lead us in reflecting about how we can mitigate income and wealth disparity not just in our communities but also in our own workplaces. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held that a more equal sharing of our wealth is a necessary foundation for a beloved community. That journey toward economic justice will necessarily include healthy doses of forgiveness, including the self-forgiveness that will allow those of us with comparatively comfortable economic situations to move away from avoidance or ineffectual “liberal guilt” to direct engagement in inequality allaround us.   Fran Quigley is a clinical professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, teaching in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. Students in the Health and Human Rights Clinic advocate for the rights of the poor, with a special focus on individual and systemic barriers to accessing healthcare and the social determinants of health    All Souls Unitarian Church, Indianapolis, IN

This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. This talk addresses a range of issues relating to digital incivility with en emphasis on cyber-violence. What are the most common negative behaviors online? How are these perceived and experienced by users? What is cyber-violence? Who does it target? What steps can be taken to prevent such behaviors? How should they be addressed once they've occurred? What challenges does the legal system face when dealing with cyber-violence related offenses? Professor Carrillo draws from the Cyber-Violence Project he co-directs at GW Law School to offer responses to these and related questions. About Arturo Arturo J. Carrillo is Professor of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, and Co-Director of the Global Internet Freedom & Human Rights Project at The George Washington University Law School. Before joining the faculty, Professor Carrillo served as the acting director of the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, where he was also Lecturer in Law and the Henkin Senior Fellow with Columbia’s Human Rights Institute. Prior to entering the academy in 2000, he worked as a legal advisor in the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Observer Mission to El Salvador (ONUSAL), as well as for non-governmental organizations in his native Colombia, where he also taught international law and human rights. From 2005 to 2010, Professor Carrillo was a senior advisor on human rights to the U.S. Agency on International Development (USAID) in Colombia. Professor Carrillo’s expertise is in public international law; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and human rights, especially Internet freedom; transitional justice; human rights and humanitarian law; and comparative clinical legal education. He is the author of a number of publications in English and Spanish on these topics. His recent article, "Having Your Cake and Eating It Too? Zero-rating, Net Neutrality and International Law," was published by the Stanford Technology Law Review (Fall 2016). As part of his clinical practice, Professor Carrillo has litigated extensively in U.S. courts and before regional human rights tribunals. Professor Carrillo received a BA from Princeton University, a JD from The George Washington University, and an LLM from Columbia University. For more info on this event visit: https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/99846

The new book, "If We Can Win Here." Guests: Author Fran Quigley, clinical professor of law, teaching in the Health and Human Rights Clinic at Indiana University's McKinney School of Law. Students in the Health and Human Rights Clinic advocate for the rights of the poor, with a special focus on representing low-wage workers; Lynn Murphy, food service worker and member of UNITE HERE, featured in the book.

On Feb 18th, 2009 a Press Conference was held at the UNC School of Law to present the findings of a joint study on the 287(g) program. A federal law granting local police and sheriffs the power to act as immigration officials when faced with dangerous criminals or terrorists has instead created a climate of racial profiling and community insecurity, according to researchers at the UNC School of Law Immigration and Human Rights Clinic. The team of law students, led by Deborah Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs at UNC School of Law, and Katherine Parker and Rebecca Headen, lawyers with the ACLU in North Carolina Legal Foundation, released a report on the 287(g) program in North Carolina titled The Policies and Politics of Local Immigration Enforcement Law on Feb. 18.