This event was co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science at Hunter College.
India’s general elections are not only fascinating and consequential in their own right; they are also an important indicator of democracy’s global... Read more
Justice Edwin Cameron: Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in South Africa at Twenty
April 24, 2014 
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Roosevelt House welcomed Edwin Cameron, Justice of the Constitutional Court, South Africa’s highest court. He is one of South Africa’s most prominent judicial figures and has a long history of activism, especially with regards to the... Read more
Reed Brody, Counsel and Spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, will talk with Hunter students about his long and finally successful quest to bring the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, to justice for the killings of... Read more
Human Rights and Careers in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Student Lunch with Ameerah Haq
March 26, 2014
UN Under-Secretary-General Ameerah Haq, who oversees all of the UN’s peacekeeping missions around the world, will have lunch with Hunter students to discuss the role of human rights in UN peacekeeping operations, and provide... Read more
From Triangle Shirtwaist to Bangladesh: The Garment Industry, Tragedy, and Workplace Safety Reform
March 25, 2014 VIDEOPHOTOS
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute held a panel discussion of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and its effect on labor laws and workplace safety in the US, and of the recent factory fire in Bangladesh and the effect it might have... Read more
Leading human rights activist, lawyer, and Co-Chairperson of the Malaysian Bar Council’s Human Rights Committee, Andrew Khoo, will be joining us fresh from representing Malaysian NGOs at the previous week’s review of... Read more
A Conversation with Nandita Das
March 21, 2014 VIDEO
View our conversation below with award-winning Indian film actress, director, and committed human rights advocate, Nandita Das. She spoke with NYU Anthropology Professor Ritty Lukose, Hunter Public Policy... Read more
Brown Bag Lunch: The Transformation of Media from the Cold War through the War on Terror
February 26, 2014
Peter Osnos, Founder and Editor-at-Large, PublicAffairs and Robert Kaiser, former Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent at Washington Post, will discuss their experiences reporting in countries... Read more
A panel discussion on the right of ecological regions to exercise political sovereignty and self-rule over the resources necessary to sustain their lives and habitats.
“Protecting Freedom of Expression and the Right to Privacy in a Digital World” – A Student Brownbag with Widney Brown
November 20, 2013
The Hunter College Human Rights Program presents a brownbag lunch with Widney Brown, Senior Director of international Law and Policy, Amnesty International, on surveillance issues.
The Right to Food, Global and Local: A Panel Discussion
November 12, 2013 VIDEOPHOTOS
Followed by Audience Q&A and reception honoring NYC food activists.
Student-Faculty Teach-in on The Crisis in Syria
October 2, 2013
Will the Chemical Weapons be destroyed? How? When? Safely?
with Tisch Public Health Fellow Richard Jackson
What do the international negotiations mean for the people of Syria?
with Syrian-American... Read more
U.S. Engagement with Muslim Communities Around the World
September 26, 2013
Click here for a recap of the event: “Engaging Muslim Youth in the Global ‘Youth-quake:” Farah... Read more
Inequality in New York: The Next Mayor’s Challenge
September 24, 2013 VIDEO
Co-Sponsored by The Roosevelt Institute
Aryeh Neier – “The International Human Rights Movement: Its Accomplishments and Its Challenges”
September 11, 2013 VIDEO
President Emeritis of The Open Society Foundation
A talk by a leading Indian human rights lawyer.
“Army of God: Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa,” book discussion with authors David Axe and Tim Hamilton
March 14, 2013 VIDEOPHOTOS
It started with a visit from spirits. In 1991, Joseph Kony, the leader of a Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, claimed that spiritual beings had come to him, instructing him to lead brutal raids against civilians... Read more
Democratic Emerging Powers and International Human Rights
December 12, 2012
A forum and working group organized by Professor Rob Jenkins (Roosevelt House Faculty Associate, Hunter College Department of Political Science), with support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
The immediate purpose of... Read more
Turning Oppression Into Opportunity Worldwide: A Discussion With The “Half the Sky Movement”
October 24, 2012
This event will feature a presentation and discussion with Lizzie Presser and Renee Muza (Hunter ‘10), Half the Sky Movement Campus Engagement Coordinators, as well as a segment from the new PBS documentary. Come to learn more about... Read more
Cheating Justice: Elizabeth Holtzman Discussion
May 16, 2012 VIDEO
In her new book, former U.S. representative Elizabeth Holtzman pairs with lawyer and journalist Cynthia L. Cooper to explain why we can’t “just move on.” Holtzman and Cooper argue that the... Read more
Education Under Fire
April 18, 2012
Screening of a documentary that gives compelling evidence of the Iranian government’s violation of the right to education through a coordinated attack against a Baha’i school in May 2011. The film screening was followed by a panel... Read more
On April 2, 2012, Roosevelt House hosted a screening of the 2011 Academy Award-winning film, Strangers No More, followed by a conversation with the Filmmakers Kirk Simon and Karen... Read more
Asian American Writers Respond to Decade Since 9/11
March 13, 2012
On March 13, 2012, Roosevelt House hosted a discussion with a number of Asian-American writers. The impact on Asian American communities in the decade since 9/11 has taken many visible and invisible forms: detention and deportation, displaced... Read more
Child Exploitation and Trafficking Discussion
March 8, 2012 VIDEO
On March 8, 2012, the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York and Roosevelt House – in celebration of International Women’s Day – held a book discussion followed by a Q&A and conversation with the audience on: Child... Read more
On January 11, 2012, Roosevelt House hosted a book discussion with William Shawcross, author of Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
About the... Read more
On November 9, 2011, Roosevelt House hosted a conversation with Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UN Under-Secretary-General.
ABOUT THE... Read more
Gareth Evans, President Emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, participated in a discussion on human rights and international justice at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.
Part of... Read more
