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Peter Jan Honigsberg led the February 27, 2020 Human Rights Workshop on his efforts to gather historical accounts of Guantánamo Bay prison.

Erika Dailey discussed the importance of assessing the impacts of strategic litigation in order to use it more effectively at the Human Rights Workshop.

Nina Jankowicz, a Disinformation Fellow at the Wilson Center, discussed the challenges democracies face in effectively addressing disinformation in the age of social media and fake news at the Human Rights Workshop.

Executive Director of Law for Black Lives Marbre Stahly-Butts ’13 discussed her work at the Human Rights Workshop

On January 30, 2020, internationally recognized indigenous scholar-activist Dr. Rosalee Gonzalez spoke at the Law School about indigenous activists’ central role in climate justice and land protection movements. Gonzalez, who is the North America Co-Coordinator for the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas and a Co-Founder of Indigenous Women Rise, also spoke about the key contributions made by indigenous women in the negotiation processes leading up to the adoption of the Paris Agreement. Gonzalez is of Tepehuanes and Kickapoo ancestry, she said, “with a foot on both sides...

Azadeh Moaveni spoke at the Human Rights Workshop about the disproportionate impact of political instability on women and girls, focusing on the Middle East prior to and after the Arab Spring.

David Marshall, a Visiting Fellow at the Schell Center for International Human Rights, discussed the limitations of efforts by the United Nations and domestic Iraqi courts to investigate and prosecute ISIL members and supporters at the Human Rights Workshop.

Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow Taylor Burgess ’19 LL.M. is spending her fellowship year at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in London.

At the November 21st Human Rights Workshop Fabio de Sa e Silva spoke about the implications of Brazil’s recent political upheavals.

Activist Nathan Law GRD ’20 spoke about his involvement in the escalating protests in Hong Kong and the future of the region’s pro-democracy movement.