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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.

ProPublica Senior Reporter Ginger Thompson spoke about her investigative journalism at the U.S.-Mexico border at the Human Rights Workshop.

Cristina Vélez Valencia, a Yale Greenberg World Fellow and the former Secretary for Social Integration for the Mayoralty of Bogotá, spoke on November 13, 2019 about her recent efforts to implement programs for the “unprecedented” number of Venezuelan refugees crossing the border into Colombia.

On Veterans Day, director Nathan Fitch screened his documentary Island Soldier, about the stories of Micronesian soldiers who serve in the U.S. military and the challenges they face upon returning home.

A profile of Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat ’19 and her human rights work.

Carrie Bettinger-Lopez, a Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami, spoke at the Law School on November 4, 2019 following the screening of the documentary film “Home Truth.”