Apr
05
Justice & Accountability for Atrocity Crimes : Facing Tough Challenges and Forging Innovative Responses
Featuring a keynote address by Philippe Sands.
Human Rights Institute
The Human Rights Institute (HRI) is the focal point of human rights at Georgetown Law and helps ensure the Law Center’s place as a center of excellence in human rights teaching and training and in producing policy-relevant and influential human rights ideas and research.
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Mar
09
A military coup in Myanmar. Genocide against the Uyghurs in China. Humanitarian emergencies in Yemen and impending disaster in Ethiopia. A refugee crisis at our southern border. And a reckoning with systemic racism here at home. These are just a few of the myriad human rights challenges facing the new administration. President Biden has pledged to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy and has recognized the connection between upholding human rights at home and advancing them abroad. What does this mean for U.S. human rights policy today?
Join Elisa Massimino, Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights, and Lisa Peterson, Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State, in a conversation about what’s next for human rights in the Biden Administration.
Nov
16
ICYMI - Elisa Massimino, Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights, was joined by Eric K. Ward, Western States Center Executive Director, for a conversation about what's next for human rights advocacy.
In a wide-ranging conversation, Professor Massimino and Ward discussed what our current political environment means for the struggle for social justice and human rights, and how social justice advocates could build sustainable strategies for change that build on shared values in an America that remains deeply divided.
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Elisa Massimino - Robert F. Drinan, S.J. Chair in Human Rights Urges Advocates to Embrace Chutzpah and Humility
March 18, 2020At the annual Drinan lecture on human rights, Massimino addressed Georgetown Law students, faculty, and guests, including military officials who backed the anti-torture campaign.
She shared lessons from three decades in the trenches of human rights advocacy, including a decade as president and CEO of Human Rights First. And she remembered Drinan, a preeminent human rights advocate who mentored her early in her career and who taught at Georgetown Law until his death in 2007.
At the heart of her message was an exhortation to embrace two “seemingly opposite” virtues: chutzpah and humility.