Podcasts about human rights program

In this episode, we're diving into the power of narrative in international development. More than just storytelling, narrative has become a critical tool—from shaping program design to influencing funding decisions. Donors and practitioners alike are recognizing the role of narrative in advancing sustainable development goals. But what exactly does "narrative" mean in this context, and how can we use it effectively to create real change? We'll explore how narrative can be both a means and an end in the push for a more equitable and sustainable world. Joining us to unpack this are Mandy Van Deven, founder of Both/And Solutions and co-lead of Elemental, Chiara Cattaneo, co-lead of Elemental, and Paco Camacho, Director of the Law and Human Rights Program for the Asia Foundation in the Philippines.

Despite changes in movement patterns over recent decades, migration has been a natural phenomenon for millennia. Cornell Law School Distinguished Immigration Scholar and attorney Marielena Hincapié and Garvin Professor Amanda Rodewald, senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, explain why people and birds migrate — and what individuals, communities and policymakers can do to develop sustainable solutions for an interdependent world.This episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell is co-sponsored by the Cornell Law School Migration and Human Rights Program and the Cornell Migrations Program.eCornell offers more than 200 online programs, including a certificate in immigration law, to help professionals advance their careers and organizations.Did you enjoy this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast? Watch the full Keynote. Follow eCornell on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X.

A panel of immigration experts moderated by UVA Law professor Kevin Cope discuss how immigration issues may influence the upcoming election, and how the outcome could shape U.S. immigration policy. Panelists include National Foundation for American Policy Executive Director Stuart Anderson, attorney Tanishka V. Cruz, UVA Law professor Amanda Frost and UVA professor Jennifer Lawless. The event was sponsored by UVA Law's Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program, and co-sponsored by the Miller Center, the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society. (Sept. 23, 2024, University of Virginia School of Law)

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Alex runs the account Thinking Slow and his quest is by using facts and real science to expose and defeat the oligarchy's dystopian Great Reset agenda. http://www.thinkingcoalition.org/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

Moderated by Professor Ben Carbonetti, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and Director of The Human Rights Program at Trinity College, the first episode of the Bridging Divides podcast features Professor of Political Science Mira Sucharov from Carleton University in Canada and Professor of Law Omar Dajani from University of the Pacific. Their collaboration acknowledges the pain and struggle of finding common ground in conversations that represent Jewish and Palestinian viewpoints as they model how to disagree without being disagreeable.

In this episode, host CJ Miller questions Peace and Human Rights Activist Hadi Jawad on ways each of us can promote peace in our communities. How does someone promote Human rights and Peace on an individual scale? Hadi encourages the listener to familiarize themselves with the 30 principles of the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights and begin looking at news articles through the Human Rights lens. Podcast Host CJMiller met Hadi Jawad while serving on an Interfaith Panel with a diverse group of Christians, Muslims, and Jews and quickly became friends. According to Hadi, it is ingrained in the human spirit to love and be kind to each other. Hadi is a Dallas peace, justice, and human rights activist. He is a follower of the principles of non-violent resistance, as exemplified by the Reverend Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, and he opposes militarism and war. He served on the board of the Dallas Peace Center as an organizer from 1997 to 2015, chairing their Middle East Peace Committee and media spokesperson. He led efforts to organize protests against the US invasion of Iraq that culminated in the largest anti-war demonstration in Dallas history on February 15, 2003.   Hadi comes from a culture steeped in oral tradition and values the importance of storytelling and shares a story from his youth playing in his neighborhood. A wandering Sufi walked by and engaged him. The Sufi was dressed in traditional clothes and holding a begging bowl. At the end of the conversation, the Sufi stabs the dirt with his stick and picks something up. He motions for Hadi to put it in his mouth. In his memory, Hadi tasted the sweetest candy that he had ever had in the whole world and recognized the mysticism of the world.  The future activist was always gravitating to finding the good and miraculous in relationships. While Hadi was passionate about mathematics, he didn't want to enter the arms industry as an engineer, and instead, he pursued managing and owning a forklift business. Only years later did he listen to his true calling and decide to be an advocate for Peace and nonviolence. According to Hadi, Judaism is the root of a tree, the trunk and the branches are Christianity, and Islam/Sufism is the foliage. Hadi explains some principles of Sufism. Sufis believe that anything material and non-material is one being, regardless of the question: Love is the answer. He defines this as the unity of being. How do you stay in the centeredness of Peace: When you're heart is being pierced, feel the pain and stay true to yourself. We are connected through our suffering. Reach out to others. Express gratitude for being alive.  Hadi is drawn to helping the underserved. He tends to look for opportunities to help those who have fallen through the cracks, and he believes that comes from his mystical side. He's drawn to mysticism and mystical thought and believes that love is mysticism.  According to Hadi, mystics understand that many of our desires are counterfeit coins and that mystics know where to find the real gold. Hadi shares a story about a villager who demands a diamond from a mystic. The diamond is represented as a rock, and the villager returns it the next day and says, "Give me the wealth that made it so easy for you to give the largest diamond in the world away." Hadi believes that mystics know where the wealth is. It's not in your car. It's not in your relationships. It's not in a mansion. It's in our hearts. It's in love. Hadi is working with  Rick Halpern, Director of the Human Rights Program at SMU, to make the City of Dallas a Human Rights City that supports the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document is uploaded to the Spiritual Artist Today website and can be found in the practice guides section. He concludes the inter

On today's show, Lee Slusher discusses Intelligence and geopolitical hotspots. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Lee Slusher is an international strategic security expert with nearly 25 years of analytical and operational experience supporting the U.S. intelligence community and special operations, and the private sector. Lee's career took him to many hotspots including Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, and Taiwan. He holds a strategic security master's degree from The George Washington University and is a 3-time alumnus of the Defense Language Institute (Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Farsi) linktr.ee/leeslusher

In this episode, we have the privilege of hosting Dr. Roza Pati, the Co-Director of the Master of Laws (LLM) and Juris Doctorate (JSD) programs in Intercultural Human Rights at St. Thomas University, Benjamin L. Crump College of Law. Learn about St. Thomas Law's unique LLM program as Dr. Pati discusses the application process, eligibility requirements, and the importance of a genuine commitment to human rights. If you're considering pursuing an LLM, gain insights into the misconceptions about the application process and how St. Thomas Law works to dispel them. Also explore the program's commitment to diversity and support for minority students, as Dr. Pati shares how St. Thomas Law's welcoming environment fosters a sense of belonging and individualized attention.    Learn more about St. Thomas University's Human Rights Program: https://www.stu.edu/law/human-rights/

This week on CounterSpin: Corporate news media use at least a couple of largely unexplored lenses through which to present US human rights violations. One is this: The US does not commit human rights violations, except by accident, or as unavoidable collateral for an ultimately net-gain mission, be that international or domestic. The other is this: They aren't violations if the US does them, because we're in a civilization war, a fight of good over evil, so all battles are holy, and you can't commit human rights violations against non-humans, after all, so where's the problem? Again, that narrative covers global and at-home violations. Elite media have trouble navigating the place of the US in a global context, and the media-consuming public suffers as a result. There's a new report from the UN about this country and human rights. We'll hear about it from Jamil Dakwar, director of the Human Rights Program at the ACLU. Also on the show: Headlines tell us that the US public don't know a lot about Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House of Representatives. That's true as far as it goes, but isn't it also a kind of admission of failure for a press corps that really should be actively informing us about the person third in line for the presidency — like maybe his idea that some of the people he's nominally representing should just burn in Hell? Matt Gertz, senior fellow at Media Matters, will give us some things to consider as we see coverage of Mike Johnson unfold.   The post Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson appeared first on KPFA.

Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski talks about exposing Yaroslav Hunka for being in a Nazi unit, the Ukraine War, the Maidan massacre and more. Then Peoples Dispatch's Zoe Alexandra The New York Times' connection to press crackdowns in India. Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian at Harvard University. He is the author of "Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova," and the co-author of "Historical Dictionary of Ukraine." He has written for and/ or appeared on The BBC, CBC, Washington Post, The Guardian and more. He specializes primarily in politics, conflicts, political violence, and the far right in Ukraine. He teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Katchanovski was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include 4 books, 19 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 12 chapters. His three books on the Russia-Ukraine war and its origins, the Maidan massacre in Ukraine, and modern Ukraine will be published by major Western academic presses. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

On this episode of "Ask the Expert," Sydni Walker sits down with Liana Forss to discuss her success in using her voice on campus to protect students and impact their lives on campus. She credits it all to a program in danger– SMU Human Rights. This episode was recorded in Spring 2023 in the SMU School of Journalism's Podcast Studio. Listen for advice on using your voice, utilizing the tools you're given, and the struggles that the Human Rights Program faces moving forward. See Ellis Rold's story about the Human Rights program.

On today's show, Ivan Katchanovski discusses Ukraine. GUEST OVERVIEW: Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

When it comes to the climate crisis, there's barely a day that goes by when we don't hear about the impending effects of rising sea levels and storm-driven tides. But Harvard professors Jaqueline Bhabha and Hannah Teicher say there's another rising tide that's not getting as much attention, despite its potential to reshape our world. It's the wave of climate migrants—people who have been and will be driven from their homes by rising seas, extreme heat, catastrophic weather, and climate-related famine and economic hardship. Some will try to relocate within their home countries, others across international borders, but most experts predict that there will be hundreds of millions of them. In fact the United Nations says hundreds of millions of people globally have already been forced to relocate for climate-related reasons, and experts say as many as a billion people could be seeking new homes by 2050. Meanwhile, immigration is already a political third rail in many countries, including the United States, and has driven a rise in both authoritarianism and ethnonationalism. So where will they go? And what kind of welcome will they receive when they get there? Bhabha and Teicher are working on those questions, examining everything from the language we use when we talk about climate migration to international law and human rights to urban planning policies that can help create win-win situations when newcomers arrive. They say major changes to our climate and to the earth's habitable spaces are coming, and a large part of adjusting to that successfully will involve another difficult change—to our way of thinking about how we share the world with our fellow humans.Jacqueline Bhabha is a faculty affiliate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, director of research for the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, a professor of the practice of health and human rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. From 1997 to 2001 Bhabha directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration, refugee protection, children's rights and citizenship. She is author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age, and the editor of Children Without A State and Human Rights and Adolescence. Bhabha serves on the board of directors of the Scholars at Risk Network, the World Peace Foundation, and the Journal of Refugee Studies. She is also a founder of the Alba Collective, an international NGO currently working with rural women and girls in developing countries to enhance financial security and youth rights. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London.Hannah Teicher is an assistant professor of urban planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Her research is broadly concerned with how mitigation and adaptation to climate change are shaping urban transformations across scales.  Her current research explores how receiving communities for climate migrants can learn from other forms of relocation to address tensions between host communities and newcomers. She is interested in how local level planning will grapple with the confluence of adaptation and migration as well as how urban restructuring will evolve at national and transnational scales. For the Climigration Network, Teicher co-chairs the Narrative Building Work Group which guided development of Lead with Listening, a guidebook for community conversations on climate migration. She is also an active member of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT, a Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia, and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College.Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Public Affairs and Communications is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an AB in Political Science from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.The co-producer of PolicyCast is Susan Hughes. Design and graphics support is provided by Lydia Rosenberg, Delane Meadows and the OCPA Design Team. Social media promotion and digital support is provided by Natalie Montaner and the OCPA Digital Team. 

Happy Black History Month! In this special bonus episode, we speak to Ben Jealous, Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and former National President and CEO of the NAACP about his new book Never Forget Our People Were Always Free: A Parable of American Healing. If you are an organizer or someone who aspires to make the world a better place, we highly recommend you listen to this episode. 0:00 Zahra & Hien catch up and recap the episode 3:46 Ben talks about the book and his inspiration for writing it 8:46 Ben shares about his parents' interracial marriage in 1966 11:32 How Ben takes care of himself while doing this work, including wisdom from a yogi and his grandmother 16:49 Keeping nihilism at bay and what progressives can learn from the neighborly ways of the Evangelicals 21:14 Our need for a spiritual reckoning and revitalization and Ben's hopes for the Democratic Party 36:16 Ben shares advice for young Millennials & Gen Z who want to make an impact, including stories about Stacey Abrams 54:32 Zahra & Hien share their reflections and admiration for Ben Ben Jealous, scholar, journalist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist, was recently appointed as the first person of color to serve Executive Director of the Sierra Club. From 2008 to 2013, Ben led the NAACP as the youngest-ever president and CEO of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization with more than 2,400 chapters. Currently, he is a Professor of the Practice, University of Pennsylvania, where Jealous teaches a course on Leadership and Racial Justice and works with students in mentorship settings. He was formerly Director of the Human Rights Program at Amnesty International USA, and Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of REACH: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding. A Rhodes Scholar and a past Democratic nominee for Governor of Maryland, he lives on the Chesapeake Bay with his children, Morgan and Jack, and their dog, Charlie. Get the book here https://benjealous.com/ For more bonus episodes, subscribe to our Substack for $5 a month. Follow us on social media Twitter: @ThoughtfulWRPod Instagram: @ThoughtfulWellnessRevolution Theme song: Katy Pearson

Rushion McDonald interviews Ben Jealous.  Ben is a New York Times best-selling author, scholar, journalist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist, currently serves as President and CEO of People For the American Way, and Professor of the Practice, University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly President and CEO of the NAACP, Director of the Human Rights Program at Amnesty International USA, and Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.   He is on the show to discuss his new book, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free.    Rushion McDonald interviews Lenore Anderson.  She is the co-founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ), one of the nation's largest safety and justice reform advocacy organizations. ASJ works with public officials and grassroots partners to advance smart public policy and sponsors Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, the nation's largest organizing program for victims of crime. She is also the founder of Californians for Safety and Justice, ASJ's flagship state advocacy program. Lenore is an attorney with extensive experience working to reform criminal justice and public safety systems.  She is on the show to discuss her new book, In Their Names, The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety.   Support the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rushion McDonald interviews Ben Jealous.  Ben is a New York Times best-selling author, scholar, journalist, civil rights leader, and philanthropist, currently serves as President and CEO of People For the American Way, and Professor of the Practice, University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly President and CEO of the NAACP, Director of the Human Rights Program at Amnesty International USA, and Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.   He is on the show to discuss his new book, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free.    Rushion McDonald interviews Lenore Anderson.  She is the co-founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice (ASJ), one of the nation's largest safety and justice reform advocacy organizations. ASJ works with public officials and grassroots partners to advance smart public policy and sponsors Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, the nation's largest organizing program for victims of crime. She is also the founder of Californians for Safety and Justice, ASJ's flagship state advocacy program. Lenore is an attorney with extensive experience working to reform criminal justice and public safety systems.  She is on the show to discuss her new book, In Their Names, The Untold Story of Victims' Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's guest Professor Ivan Katchanovski, one of the world's leading experts on Ukraine, says Ukraine and Russia struck a deal to stop the fighting, but Britain's Boris Johnson killed it. Why? Topics: Biden pardons some marijuana crimes; Herschel Walker; Ukraine; Baldwin's "Rust" back in production; Midterms; King Charles' coronation 00:02:33 Joe Biden decriminalizes weed, sort of, but not really 00:05:09 The Federal Reserve is making it worse for renters by raising interest rates 00:08:56 Alex Jones "boycotts" his own trial 00:10:26 Apple CEO Tim Cook meet the Pope 00:12:28 King Charles' coronation scheduled, and why it's another two years before his face is on bank notes 00:14:43 Prince Anne visits New York 00:16:42 King Charles forbidden to speak at climate conference 00:17:37 Coca-Cola, the world's largest polluter, sponsoring UN climate conference 00:19:26 Pacific Ocean is shrinking 00:20:08 OPEC cuts oil production 00:20:40 Alec Baldwin's "Rust" resumes production 00:23:01 Midterms only 32 days away 00:23:14 George W. Bush is endorsing candidates 00:25:18 Former GOP Congressman warns far-right congressman have serious cognitive decline 00:26:50 More Republicans died from Covid than Democrats, according to new study 00:27:38 Donald Trump made prank calls from the White House, according to new book 00:28:46 Kelly Anne Conway says it's tough out there for a bigoted Christian 00:30:40 Newt Gingrich defends Herschel Walker 00:33:07 Republicans are in complete denial about their derangement 00:36:36 Dana Loesch is all about forgiveness 00:38:20 Senator Rick Scott is stupid 00:41:15 Doug Mastriano wants to arrest mothers who abort their fetuses 00:42:33 Christian Walker attacks his dead 00:43:05 Trump says he would beat Jefferson and Washington if they ran against him 00:43:59 Marjorie Taylor Greene suing Twitter 00:46:03 Donald Trump is suing CNN 00:47:18 RNC suing Google 00:49:31 The Putin wing of the GOP 00:55:20 Did the CIA blow up the Nord Stream pipelines? GOP thinks so 01:02:10 "I'm On My Way" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel 01:05:21 The War In Ukraine: Professor Ivan Katchanovski has written extensively on Ukraine and Russia. He teaches at the School of Political Studies & Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program at the University of Ottawa 01:29:40 Royal Watcher Sir Arthur Greeb Streebling 01:42:49 Professor Ben Burgis on what American can learn from the Cuban Missile Crisis when it comes to negotiating with Russia 02:06:01 Dr. Philip Herschenfeld, Freudian psychoanalyst and Ethan Herschenfeld, comic, actor, author and retired opera singer 02:33:59 Emil Guillermo from the PETA Podcast 02:52:59 Quizmaster Dan Frankenberger tests our knowledge of Edgar Allen Poe 03:05:03 Pastor Jonathan Conrad 03:20:53 The Rev. Barry W. Lynn takes a look at five religious nuts 04:17:54 Joe In Norway, Dr. Nancy, Professor Jonathan Bick and Sir Arthur Greeb Streebling on raising children who are self sufficient 04:40:33 Marijuana

On the first half of the 9-12-22 Jaws of Justice, host Craig Lubow speaks with Rick Halperin, Director of Southern Methodist University’s Human Rights Program and a recognized international authority […] The post WORK TO ABOLISH ATROCITIES – DEATH PENALTY AND CHILD HUNGER appeared first on KKFI.

Would you put a price tag on your rights? If you had to choose between your socio-economic rights or your freedom to peacefully protest, what would you choose? It's a question that might get a lot of mixed responses, but some might argue you can't have one without the other. In this episode of Entitled, Claudia and Tom discuss these two groups of rights: socio-economic rights and civil and political rights. They take a deeper look at the United States with Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, about why the US has had a hard time increasing socio-economic equality. Lastly, they speak with Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program, about why we need to think about human rights more holistically.

On today's episode of The Confluence: We speak with an Afghan journalist who fled the country after the U.S. withdrew its military presence, and has spent the last year in Pittsburgh; as Allegheny County is contracting with consultants at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care to review fatalities at the county jail, we ask a researcher what might come of the review; and author David Maraniss has a new biography of Jim Thorpe, one of America's greatest athletes, who grew up at the Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Today's guests include: Zubair Babakarkhail, Afghan-born journalist and interpreter; Robin Mejia, director of the Statistics and Human Rights Program at Carnegie Mellon University.

CSIS's Human Rights Program director Marti Flacks joins the podcast to discuss the latest evidence in Bucha, Ukraine of war crimes against civilians by Russian forces and the U.S. and European response.

Foreign Policy recommends: At LibertyThis week on FP Playlist, we feature At Liberty, a podcast produced by the American Civil Liberties Union. With the 20 year anniversary of 911, this featured episode discusses the CIA's torture programs in the wake of 9/11, the lawsuit against the torture program, and the aftermath for those survivors.Steven Watt, a senior staff lawyer for the ACLU's Human Rights Program, sat down with FP Playlist to discuss the effects of torture and fight for transparency. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we hear from Camila Gomez Wills, a Business and Human Rights Program Manager who develops bespoke strategies for Fortune 500 companies to address high-risk ESG business issues — interviewed by fellow co-lab member, Janet Gilbert. Camila cares deeply about human dignity and agency and is dedicated to finding solutions for responsible sourcing as well as best practices to ultimately put an end to modern slavery in our supply chains. Join us as she describes how a personal tragedy in high school led to spend a year in India before starting college in Colombia, ultimately setting her on a path to her current career.

My guest on this episode is an intellectual giant, the philosopher and legal scholar Martha Nussbaum. Her work has been kaleidoscopic in scope, covering Greek and Roman philosophy, especially Aristotle, as well as liberalism, feminism, human rights, forgiveness, justice, the arts, the role of emotions and much, much more.  Our conversation is mostly about her new book Citadels of Pride, which tackles the issues of sexual assault and harassment and how to create systems for what she calls forward-looking justice, rather than backward-looking revenge. It is a timely book, covering the controversial issue of Title IX which governs the treatment of assault and harassment claims on college campuses, as well as the strengths and limits of the #MeToo movement. We also talk about the corruption of Division 1 college sports; the problems caused by the legal drinking age; why public shaming is a bad idea (and one that feminists especially should be especially wary of); and how the sin of pride lies at the heart of sexist views of women. We discuss Martha's own experience of being assaulted in 1968 by Ralph Waite, the actor made famous for his role as the father in the The Waltons, her guilt at not naming him earlier, and how much progress has been made in law in the decades since. We also touch on her forthcoming work on animal rights. Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum is a Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago working across the Law School, the Philosophy Department, the Classics Department, the Political Science Department, the Divinity School, as a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and as a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She has numerous appointments and honorary degrees around the globe and is renowned for her work in Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy (especially Aristotle), feminist philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of the arts, and animal rights. Most recently Martha was awarded the Holberg Prize which recognizes scholars for their work in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, and/or theology.  More Nussbaum  Read her new book “Citadels of Pride: Sexual Assault, Accountability, and Reconciliation” and her piece “Why Some Men Are Above the Law” in which she first draws attention to her own personal experience.  Watch her Holberg Lecture “Justice for Animals: Practical Progress through Philosophical Theory” on June 8, 2021.  Read Martha's animal rights pieces, “Legal Protection for Whales” and “The Legal Status of Whales and Dolphins”, both co-authored with her daughter Rachel.  Also mentioned Check out Jake Heggie's opera “Dead Man Walking”, based on Sister Helen's book of the same name  Read more about pride as a vice in Dante's Purgatorio and the story of Emperor Trajan  In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley told her son Emmett to not “look the white folks in the eye” before he travelled to Mississippi  Martha referenced Ishmael Reed's book “Reckless Eyeballing” Read more about Pauli Murray  Mechelle Vinson; and Cheryl Araujo  Read Dan Harmon's public apology to his coworker Megan Ganz  Martha referenced St. Paul in Romans 12:20 in which he said "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head"  Read the Parable of the Prodigal Son Check out this data sheet on D1 Football Sexual Assault Events  Read Obama's “Dear Colleague” Letter and the changes that Secretary DeVos made  Visit the Friends of Animals website, where Martha's daughter Rachel worked The Dialogues Team Creator: Richard Reeves Research: Ashleigh Maciolek Artwork: George Vaughan Thomas Tech Support: Cameron Hauver-Reeves Music: "Remember" by Bencoolen (thanks for the permission, guys!)

In this episode, Melinda Briana Epler, Founder & CEO of Change Catalyst, and Sonja Gittens Ottley, Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Asana, talk about “Expanding Anti-Racist Allyship.” You'll learn about anti-racism, strategies to expand our anti-racist allyship to address intersectionality and many forms of racism, and how this can help you can level up DEI efforts in your workplace.About SonjaSonja Gittens Ottley is the Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Asana, where she's responsible for crafting the company's strategies for recruiting employees from underrepresented groups and creating an inclusive environment that allows people to thrive. Prior to her roles in diversity and inclusion at Asana and at Facebook, Sonja was global policy counsel for Yahoo's Business & Human Rights Program. She is a native of Trinidad & Tobago.Find Leading With Empathy & Allyship useful? Subscribe to our podcast and like this episode! For more about Change Catalyst, and to join us for a live recording, visit https://changecatalyst.co/allyshipseries There, you'll also find educational resources and highlights from this episode.Connect On SocialYouTube: youtube.com/c/changecatalystTwitter: twitter.com/changecatalystsFacebook: facebook.com/changecatalystsInstagram: instagram.com/techinclusionLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/changecatalystsProduction TeamCreator & Host: Melinda Briana Epler Producer: Juliette Roy Project Manager: Emilie MaasFinance & Operations: Renzo Santos Data Analyst: Sally Moywaywa Director of Marketing: Ariyah April[Image description: Leading With Empathy & Allyship promo with the Change Catalyst logo and photos of host Melinda Briana Epler, a White woman with red hair and glasses, and Sonja Gittens Ottley, a Black woman with black hair, glasses, and green shirt.]Support the show (http://patreon.com/changecatalysts)

Dr. Elora Halim Chowdhury is a Professor in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and the Director of Human Rights Program at University of Massachusetts Boston. Her most recent book is an edited collection with Dr. Esha Niyogi De, titled South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters (2020). Dr. Chowdhury talks about her journey into academia, the Bangladeshi Liberation War, its impact on national identity, and about how foreign NGOs create boundaries of savior and poor clients. Finally, we talk about her and Dr. De’s latest book about South Asian cinema and its influence in envisioning healing and reconciliation.

Dr. Rick Halperin, head of the SMU Human Rights program talks about how education in the fundamental right of religious freedom is necessary if we are to protect the rights of all.

  We need to talk about the Penal System. In European Criminal Law, there largely is consensus that criminal law should be ultima ratio, that is, the last resort when the law is applied and executed. However, criminal law and the penal system at large have also proven to be an efficient way to silence political opponents and citizens turning against the government by literally barring them from raising their voice in public. We have seen examples for this in Europe, and we'll have to talk about that today. But there are more aspects to this topic: How are prison systems being used as a tool by autocratic-leaning governments? And how is the relationship between the penal system and the rule of law in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice that the European Union aspires to be? This is what LENNART KOKOTT discusses in this week's episode of We Need to Talk about the Rule of Law, brought to you by Verfassungsblog and the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein), with our fantastic guests: LAURE BAUDRIHAYE-GÉRARD is a solicitor and the European legal director of Fair Trials, a worldwide criminal justice watchdog; JAMES MACGUILL is a solicitor working in public law, especially criminal law, former chair of the Criminal Law Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe and currently the Council's vice president; KAROLY BÁRD is a professor at the Central European University, teaching human rights law and constitutional theory, and Chair of the University's Human Rights Program.

The Federalist Society's COVID-19 & the Law Conference concluded with a panel on "Civil Liberties and COVID-19". The panel took place via teleconference on Friday, June 12, 2020.Various governmental and private measures relating to COVID-19 are raising challenging civil liberties questions both in the US and around the world. What are the limits on States and localities’ ability to restrict movement? Should journalists be able to be sued for promoting approaches deemed insufficiently or overly aggressive? Do businesses shut down by government order have any legal recourse? What kind of reason do police need to stop people on the street to enforce stay-at-home orders? What about government redirection of medical resources away from abortions? What about government redirection of goods and production capacity? Rationing of scarce medical resources on the basis of anticipated quality of life? What about churches told not to hold in-person or drive-in services? What about prisoners and detained unlawful entrants at heightened exposure risk? What about landlords forbidden to evict tenants? Nor are the challenges limited to the immediate emergency measures. Potential public health steps intended to facilitate safer reopening also raise thorny problems. Should the government be able to condition going back to work or getting on an airplane on a negative COVID-19 test? Or a positive antibody test? Should a company or an airline? Should privacy laws including HIPAA and others be relaxed to permit more effective isolation of people who test positive, including using cell phone location information to send phone alerts to health officials about people who have tested positive and are not self-isolating? Or their close contacts? Or to help with contact tracing? If not how will this affect the efficacy of stepped up testing efforts? Even if in theory some of this makes sense, does the US really have the enforcement resources and bureaucratic capacity effectively to borrow/emulate some of these techniques that have been used in other countries? This panel will explore these questions.Featuring:Prof. Julia Mahoney, John S. Battle Professor of Law; Class of 1963 Research Professor in Honor of Graham C. Lilly and Peter W. Low, University of Virginia School of LawProf. Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, New York Law School; Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1991-2008Prof. Mila Versteeg, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law; Director, Human Rights Program; Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia School of LawProf. Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of LawModerator: Hon. Christopher C. DeMuth, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute*******As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speakers.

The Federalist Society's COVID-19 & the Law Conference concluded with a panel on "Civil Liberties and COVID-19". The panel took place via teleconference on Friday, June 12, 2020.Various governmental and private measures relating to COVID-19 are raising challenging civil liberties questions both in the US and around the world. What are the limits on States and localities’ ability to restrict movement? Should journalists be able to be sued for promoting approaches deemed insufficiently or overly aggressive? Do businesses shut down by government order have any legal recourse? What kind of reason do police need to stop people on the street to enforce stay-at-home orders? What about government redirection of medical resources away from abortions? What about government redirection of goods and production capacity? Rationing of scarce medical resources on the basis of anticipated quality of life? What about churches told not to hold in-person or drive-in services? What about prisoners and detained unlawful entrants at heightened exposure risk? What about landlords forbidden to evict tenants? Nor are the challenges limited to the immediate emergency measures. Potential public health steps intended to facilitate safer reopening also raise thorny problems. Should the government be able to condition going back to work or getting on an airplane on a negative COVID-19 test? Or a positive antibody test? Should a company or an airline? Should privacy laws including HIPAA and others be relaxed to permit more effective isolation of people who test positive, including using cell phone location information to send phone alerts to health officials about people who have tested positive and are not self-isolating? Or their close contacts? Or to help with contact tracing? If not how will this affect the efficacy of stepped up testing efforts? Even if in theory some of this makes sense, does the US really have the enforcement resources and bureaucratic capacity effectively to borrow/emulate some of these techniques that have been used in other countries? This panel will explore these questions.Featuring:Prof. Julia Mahoney, John S. Battle Professor of Law; Class of 1963 Research Professor in Honor of Graham C. Lilly and Peter W. Low, University of Virginia School of LawProf. Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, New York Law School; Former President, American Civil Liberties Union, 1991-2008Prof. Mila Versteeg, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law; Director, Human Rights Program; Senior Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia School of LawProf. Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of LawModerator: Hon. Christopher C. DeMuth, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute*******As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speakers.

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sandra Fahy. They speak about the second half of Sandra's new book ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record', the response from North Korea to significant human rights accusations such as with the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, how North Korean media reports and deals with accusations of this kind, the specific threat of defector testimony to the regime in Pyongyang and their efforts to discredit or silence the defector community, the language and rhetoric that they use, the current state and nature of human rights inside North Korea, and the hope for the future. This is the second of two podcasts on Sandra's book, the first focussed on ‘The Crimes'. Sandra Fahy completed her doctorate in Anthropology at the School for Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Sejong Society, the University of Southern California, and École des hautes études en sciences socials in Paris. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is the author of ‘Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea' (2015); and ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record' (2019), both published with Columbia University Press. * Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/dying-for-rights/9780231176347) * Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/marching-through-suffering/9780231171342) *** The podcast covering Sandra's first book, ‘Marching through Suffering', is available here: http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com/the-korea-now-podcast-20-sandra-fahy-the-language-of-suffering-life-and-struggle-during-the-north-korean-famine Support via Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry Support via PayPal – https://www.paypal.me/jrleahenry Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – http://www.jedleahenry.org Libsyn – http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA Twitter – https://twitter.com/jedleahenry Academia.edu – http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry Research Gate – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sandra Fahy. They speak about the first half of Sandra's new book ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record', the nature and scope of the human rights abuses in North Korea, the history of these violations, the impact and responsibility for famine and hunger, religious persecution across the country, the control of information, the control of movement and labour, the system of prison camps, torture and execution, and North Korea's exportation of human rights violations. This is the first of two podcasts on Sandra's book, the second will focus on ‘The Denials'. Sandra Fahy completed her doctorate in Anthropology at the School for Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Sejong Society, the University of Southern California, and École des hautes études en sciences socials in Paris. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is the author of ‘Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea' (2015); and ‘Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record' (2019), both published with Columbia University Press. * Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/dying-for-rights/9780231176347) * Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/marching-through-suffering/9780231171342) *** The podcast covering Sandra's first book, ‘Marching through Suffering', is available here: http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com/the-korea-now-podcast-20-sandra-fahy-the-language-of-suffering-life-and-struggle-during-the-north-korean-famine Support via Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry Support via PayPal – https://www.paypal.me/jrleahenry Support via Bitcoin - 31wQMYixAJ7Tisp773cSvpUuzr2rmRhjaW Website – http://www.jedleahenry.org Libsyn – http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA Twitter – https://twitter.com/jedleahenry Academia.edu – http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry Research Gate – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry

Lobsang Sangay, regent of the Central Tibetan Administration, delivers the Human Rights Program spring lecture. Sangay discusses his experiences leading a government in exile, representing the Tibetan diaspora, and advocating for political autonomy and power for greater Tibet. (University of Virginia School of Law, Feb. 21, 2020)

Sanho Tree, the director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Teresa García Castro, an associate with the Drug Policy Program at WOLA, spoke about the history of the war on drugs and the impact it has today on counternarcotics efforts and incarceration of women, respectively. This event was sponsored by UVA Law’s Human Rights Program. (University of Virginia School of Law, October 24, 2019)

Victor Madrigal-Borloz discusses his work as U.N. independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The talk marked the Human Rights Program kickoff for the year. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 19, 2019)

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part VII - The Way Forward - General discussion, with Sital Kalantry (Cornell Law School). Sital Kalantry is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Policy Advocacy Clinic, and Co-Director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School. She is an expert in international human rights and her scholarship focuses on gender and education rights, particularly within the context of India and the United States. In her book, Women’s Human Rights and Migration, she uses empirical, comparative, and critical race studies approaches to critique the legislative process and mainstream discourse regarding sex-selective abortion bans in the United States. Her writings have been published in top peer-reviewed and American and international journals, including the Human Rights Quarterly, the National Law Journal, and the Stanford Journal of International Law, and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Kalantry has been invited to deliver numerous talks and presentations around the world. She has received many awards and grants for her work, including a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar grant to conduct research in India on the Indian Supreme Court and helping to secure a $1.5 million dollar grant to establish a center focused on women and justice. She serves as a peer-reviewer for several human rights journals and is on the editorial board of the Jindal Global Law Review and the Maharashtra National University Law Review. Kalantry is a member of the lawyers advisory committee of Peace Brigades International and served on the International Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She is fluent in Hindi and conversant in Spanish.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part VII - The Way Forward - General discussion, with Sital Kalantry (Cornell Law School). Sital Kalantry is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Policy Advocacy Clinic, and Co-Director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School. She is an expert in international human rights and her scholarship focuses on gender and education rights, particularly within the context of India and the United States. In her book, Women’s Human Rights and Migration, she uses empirical, comparative, and critical race studies approaches to critique the legislative process and mainstream discourse regarding sex-selective abortion bans in the United States. Her writings have been published in top peer-reviewed and American and international journals, including the Human Rights Quarterly, the National Law Journal, and the Stanford Journal of International Law, and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Kalantry has been invited to deliver numerous talks and presentations around the world. She has received many awards and grants for her work, including a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar grant to conduct research in India on the Indian Supreme Court and helping to secure a $1.5 million dollar grant to establish a center focused on women and justice. She serves as a peer-reviewer for several human rights journals and is on the editorial board of the Jindal Global Law Review and the Maharashtra National University Law Review. Kalantry is a member of the lawyers advisory committee of Peace Brigades International and served on the International Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She is fluent in Hindi and conversant in Spanish.

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part VII - The Way Forward - General discussion, with Sital Kalantry (Cornell Law School). Sital Kalantry is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Policy Advocacy Clinic, and Co-Director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School. She is an expert in international human rights and her scholarship focuses on gender and education rights, particularly within the context of India and the United States. In her book, Women’s Human Rights and Migration, she uses empirical, comparative, and critical race studies approaches to critique the legislative process and mainstream discourse regarding sex-selective abortion bans in the United States. Her writings have been published in top peer-reviewed and American and international journals, including the Human Rights Quarterly, the National Law Journal, and the Stanford Journal of International Law, and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Kalantry has been invited to deliver numerous talks and presentations around the world. She has received many awards and grants for her work, including a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar grant to conduct research in India on the Indian Supreme Court and helping to secure a $1.5 million dollar grant to establish a center focused on women and justice. She serves as a peer-reviewer for several human rights journals and is on the editorial board of the Jindal Global Law Review and the Maharashtra National University Law Review. Kalantry is a member of the lawyers advisory committee of Peace Brigades International and served on the International Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She is fluent in Hindi and conversant in Spanish.

Professor Camilo Sánchez, director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic and co-director of UVA Law’s Human Rights Program, describes the school’s curricular and clinical offerings in the international human rights field. This session was part of UVA Law’s 2019 Admitted Students Open House. (University of Virginia School of Law, March 22, 2019)

Today we talked to Seth Markle about his book, A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism 1964-1974, published by Michigan State University Press in 2017 as part of the Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series. Providing extensive insight into the importance of Tanzania in the emergence of a new form of Pan-Africanism in the 1960s, Markle conveys both the character of modern nationhood in Tanzania as well the activists in the diaspora who shaped and were affected by it. Markle highlights the international connections that defined the African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism throughout the 1960s and 70s. His book is a story about the networks and friendships that tie together Julius Nyerere’s Tanzania to the pivotal figures and ideas of the twentieth century, including Malcolm X, A.M. Babu, Stokely Carmichael, and Walter Rodney. Seth Markle is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College. He also serves as the Director of the Human Rights Program; Coordinator of the International Studies Program’s Africa concentration and Interdisciplinary Minor in African Studies and is the Faculty Advisor to Trinity’s International Hip Hop Festival. Jacob Ivey is an Assistant Professor of History at the Florida Institute of Technology. His research centers largely on the British Colony of Natal, South Africa, most notably European and African systems of state control and defense during the colony’s formative period.He tweets @IveyHistorian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we talked to Seth Markle about his book, A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism 1964-1974, published by Michigan State University Press in 2017 as part of the Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series. Providing extensive insight into the importance of Tanzania in the emergence of a new form of Pan-Africanism in the 1960s, Markle conveys both the character of modern nationhood in Tanzania as well the activists in the diaspora who shaped and were affected by it. Markle highlights the international connections that defined the African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism throughout the 1960s and 70s. His book is a story about the networks and friendships that tie together Julius Nyerere’s Tanzania to the pivotal figures and ideas of the twentieth century, including Malcolm X, A.M. Babu, Stokely Carmichael, and Walter Rodney. Seth Markle is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College. He also serves as the Director of the Human Rights Program; Coordinator of the International Studies Program’s Africa concentration and Interdisciplinary Minor in African Studies and is the Faculty Advisor to Trinity’s International Hip Hop Festival. Jacob Ivey is an Assistant Professor of History at the Florida Institute of Technology. His research centers largely on the British Colony of Natal, South Africa, most notably European and African systems of state control and defense during the colony’s formative period.He tweets @IveyHistorian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the fourth Friday so we will visit with Lynda Greene on Veterans issues and begin our series from the Sunbelt Prisons Symposium: Living in the Carceral State: Problems, Possibilities and Potential Solutions.  This week we will hear from Dr. Rick Halperin, Director of the Human Rights Program at SMU.

From the symposium Sunbelt Prisons and the Carceral State: New Frontiersof State Power, Resistance, and Racial Oppression at Southern Methodist University on Saturday, March 24th, 2012, the Prison Show is proud to present: Living in the Carceral State: Problems, Possibilities, and Potential Solutions A plenary roundtable including Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson; civil rights veteran and formerly incarcerated activist Ernest McMillan; formerly incarcerated activist and founder of The Prison Show Ray Hill; long-time civil rights and criminal defense attorney Bill Habern; Director of the Human Rights Program at SMU Rick Halperin; and Legal Director of the ACLU of Texas Lisa Graybill. The event was organized by Dr. Robert Chase, public historian with the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston and Dr. Norwood Andrews, currently visiting professor of history at the Universitry of Dallas.

Women's rights and their access to medical care can be severely limited. Yet, without the support of local women, efforts to improve public health often fail. With help from The Carter Center, public health initiatives are helping women to achieve better health for themselves and their families as well as become leaders in their communities. Dr. Paul Emerson, director, Trachoma Control Program; Karin Ryan, director, Human Rights Program; and Elizabeth Cromwell, assistant director, Trachoma Control Program — moderated by National Public Radio's health policy correspondent and Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism Joanne Silberner — discuss the connection between human rights and good health among some of the world's most impoverished and neglected women.

A talk by South African author and journalist Mark Gevisser. Mark Gevisser is currently The Nation's Southern African correspondent. In South Africa, his work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times and many magazines and periodicals. Internationally, he has written widely on South African politics, culture and society, in publications ranging from Vogue and the New York Times to Foreign Affairs and Art in America. Read Mark Gevisser's featured CIS article connecting Barack Obama's election and the legacy of liberation in South Africa... From the World Beyond the Headlines lecture series. Cosponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Political Science Department, the African Studies Workshop, and the Human Rights Program.

The U.S. human rights record has been greatly tarnished by Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and other events during recent years. Join former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian human rights defender Saad Ibrahim, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Larry Cox, and Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission Sima Samar as they discuss how the next administration can restore the reputation of the United States on human rights. Event will be moderated by Karin Ryan, director of the Carter Center's Human Rights Program. 12/03/2008

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA; Sergei Kovalev, Russian human rights activist and former Gulag prisoner; and Isaac Newton Farris Jr., nephew of the late Martin Luther King Jr., and president and CEO of The King Center in Atlanta discuss the suppression of political and religious dissidents in the former Soviet Union, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and the current work of The Carter Center on human rights. The event coincided with Human Rights Day and the opening of a special exhibit at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site called GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom. Sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site,  Amnesty International, and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. Moderated by Karin Ryan, director of the Carter Center's Human Rights Program.

A talk by Jorge Fernandez-Souza, Magistrate Judge, Professor of Law and former Dean of Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, former Delegado of Delegacion Miguel Hidalgo, and lawyer for Bishop Samuel Ruiz in the Chiapas negotiations (1994 – 1997). From the Human Rights in Mexico Series. Sponsored by the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies.

A talk by Mariclaire Acosta. Acosta is affiliated with the Organization of American States, co-founder of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos; founder, Comision Mexicana para la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, and former director of Human Rights in the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores. From the Human Rights in Mexico Series. Sponsored by the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies.

A talk by Bertha Lujan, Secretaria del Trabajo, Gobierno "Legitimo" de México (de Andrés Manuel López Obrador), former Controlora, Cd. de México (2000-2006), and lead organizer of Frente Auténtico del Trabajo. From the Human Rights in Mexico Series. Sponsored by the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies.