The Ceaseless Fight for a More Decent World
A conversation with Kenneth Roth
Are human rights movements able to rise to the challenge of the urgent issues of our time, from authoritarianism and right-wing populism to economic inequality, impunity for mass atrocities, and the climate crisis? What have human rights norms and strategies accomplished? Should traditional fact-finding and name-and-shame strategies be defended, or transformed? And what can the language and tools of human rights offer us now, at this incredibly difficult moment, around the world and here in the United States?
On the launch of Righting Wrongs, a sweeping new book by Kenneth Roth about his three decades at the helm of Human Rights Watch, join us to debate the past, future, and meanings of human rights. Prof. Sheila Coronel, Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, will moderate, with introductory remarks by Prof. Sarah Knuckey, Co-Director, Human Rights Institute.
This event is co-sponsored by the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, the Human Rights Institute, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
6:00pm, Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Journalism School
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Refreshments will be provided.
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