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Human Rights Program Past Events

Marking Asian American History Month the Roosevelt House Human Rights Program and Network 20/20 with co-sponsorship by the Hunter Asian American Studies Program and Center... Read more
 
Marking World Press Freedom Day the Roosevelt House Human Rights Program and PEN America invite you to attend a... Read more
 
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program  and Solidarity Engineering  invite you to... Read more
 
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program and the Women and Gender Studies Department invite you to... Read more
 
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program with the New Yorkers for Equality Model invite you to... Read more
 
Please join us in the Roosevelt House Auditorium this Wednesday, February 8 at 2:30PM – 3:30PM for our... Read more
 
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home…” – Eleanor RooseveltThe Office of the Governor of... Read more
 
Join the Roosevelt House Human Rights Program for Vote for Your Future: A Summit for Democracy October... Read more
 
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab and Jessica Neuwirth, Rita E. Hauser Director of the Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House cordially invite you... Read more
 
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program with Human Rights Watch invite you to attend ... Read more
 
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program and the Remember the Women Institute, along with the Consulate General of Israel in New York and the Pace... Read more
 
Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab with the Roosevelt House Human Rights Program ... Read more
 
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program with CAP International, along with the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and the Consulate... Read more
 
Please join us in the Roosevelt House Auditorium as we bring together our Hunter community with human rights and public policy experts for an open forum to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Moderated by... Read more
 
Although the right to health is recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the idea of “health as a human right” has not gained traction in the United States. Despite new variants and rising COVID-19 cases in areas with low... Read more
 
The Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College presents: Virtual Meeting Platforms: Government Control and Corporate Compliance In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, social... Read more
 
The United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights and the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College present Climate Change and Cultural Extinction: A Human Rights... Read more
 
Presented by The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program, the Hunter Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies, and the Hunter Asian American Studies Center and Program.  Join Zoom... Read more
 
On April 3, 2020, in collaboration with the Sisterhood is Global Institute, the Human Rights Program hosted a virtual event on the victims of domestic violence and the dangers they face during the COVID-19... Read more
 
 
2020: Gender, Race, Suffrage and Citizenship will critically examine the movement that led to women receiving the right to vote in the United States
 
Join Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House for a screening of ... Read more
 
A conversation on sex trafficking and the commercial sex trade.
 
Musiskiai
When the best-selling author and journalist Ruta Vanagaite (born in Šiauliai, Lithuania) discovered that her own relatives were complicit in the murder of Lithuanian Jews during the World War II era, she became determined to... Read more
 
Is business part of the solution or part of the problem in addressing human rights concerns? Was the recent corporate endorsement of Colin Kaepernick a stand for justice, a marketing tool, or both? Join Phil Bloomer, Executive Director of Centre... Read more
 
The Uncondemmed
A gripping story of a group of young international lawyers and activists who is fighting to have rape recognized and prosecuted as a war crime, and the Rwandan women who courageously came forward to testify. ... Read more
 
A Dangerous Idea poster
Roosevelt House hosts a special screening of the new documentary, A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream. The film explores how eugenics—the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to... Read more
 
Screaming-Silence
The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program and the Women and Gender Studies Department at Hunter College along with Remember the Women Institute present a special screening of Screaming... Read more
 
The #MeToo campaign, founded in 2006 by activist Tarana Burke, has recently reignited a global conversation about sexual harassment and violence against women. Yet despite this watershed moment, advocates contend that many perspectives continue... Read more
 
Why is it so Difficult to Get Seemingly Positive Food Legislation Passed in a Progressive NYC? Introduction by Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH Welcome by Smita Narula, JD,... Read more