The end of the semester is looming, no? What a wild ride so far. Please continue to rest, hydrate, wash your hands to take care of you and others in your germ circle/pod/community, etc. Here's to channeling some gorgeous creative energy into those end of semester assignments! You got this!
Look out for some chatter about impromptu small social distancing meet-ups on the WhatsApp group- but please respect the Campus Compact, especially given recent notifications re:contact tracing!!!!
This event, coordinated by LASA, HAWT, and MWG, will focus on the intersections of migration, gender, and human rights within the context of the Venezuelan crisis. Beatriz Borges Urrutia, a lawyer, academic, and human rights defender from Venezuela, and Dr. Julia Zulver, a political sociologist and feminist researcher whose work focuses on women's mobilisation in violent communities in Latin America, will each give a short presentation on their work, followed by the opportunity for participants to ask questions.
Join us for an exciting panel discussion on seeking reproductive justice and accountability for forced sterilization in the United States. We will hear from leading activists and scholars working to establish accountability for survivors of forced sterilization. From working to shutdown ICE Irwin Detention center, to passing legislation to get reparations for survivors in California prisons, you will hear about the latest efforts in this fight!
RSVP is required.
This event is moderated by Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Gender and Public Policy Specialization. We are honored to be joined by the following panelists:
Alexandra Minna Stern, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor, American Culture, History, and Women's and Gender Studies;
Director, Sterilization and Social Justice Lab
Alex is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. She also holds appointments in the Departments of History, Women's Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and directs the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research team that is reconstructing and analyzing the history of eugenics and sterilization in four U.S. states (Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa, and California). Alex's research focuses on the history of eugenics, genetics, society, and justice in the United States and Latin America. She is the author of the award winning book, Eugenic Nation (2005), and her most recent book is Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate (2019).
Aminah Elster, Policy and Campaign Coordinator, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Aminah Elster is a proximate leader and scholar whose work focuses on gender violence, critical acts of survival, and the carceral system. She founded Unapologetically HERS (Healing Experiences through Research Solutions), an organization committed to centering and empowering the experiences of those incarcerated within California women's prisons through leadership development and self sufficiency, and advocates for the abolition of carceral systems. She received her BA in Legal Studies from UC Berkeley and is the co-author of Criminal Record Stigma in the College-Educated Labor Market, Aminah serves as an advisor to Voice of Witness and the San Francisco District Attorney’s Justice Impacted Board. She is currently the Policy and Campaign Coordinator with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners in Oakland, CA.
Ena Suseth Valladares, Director of Programs, California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
Ena Suseth Valladares has worked on reproductive justice issues for nearly 15 years, primarily working on reducing health inequities and improving access to social and health services through community-informed research and policy.
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal & Advocacy Director, Project South
Azadeh has worked for a number of years in the U.S. South to protect and defend immigrants and Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities. She previously served as president of the National Lawyers Guild and as National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project Director with the ACLU of Georgia. She is the author or editor of several human rights reports, including a 2017 report titled “Imprisoned Justice: Inside Two Georgia Immigrant Detention Centers,” as well as law review articles and book chapters focused on racial profiling, immigrants’ rights, and surveillance of Muslim-Americans. Her writings have appeared in the Guardian, the Nation, MSNBC, USA Today, Aljazeera, and HuffPost, among others. Azadeh is the recipient of the Shanara M. Gilbert Human Rights Award from the Society of American Law Teachers, the National Lawyers Guild Ernie Goodman Award, the Emory Law School Outstanding Leadership in the Public Interest Award, the Emory University MLK Jr. Community Service Award, the US Human Rights Network Human Rights Movement Builder Award, the American Immigration Lawyers Association Advocacy Award, among several others. She has also been recognized as an Abolitionist by the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University & the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives.
This year we mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, which is a fortuitous time to assess different platforms and partnerships for multilateral cooperation.
Join us for a conversation with the Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism Organization, Mr. Zurab Pololikashvili to discuss challenges and opportunities within the tourism industry after COVID 19 and what tourism will look like moving forward.
The World Tourism Organization has the mandate to promote responsible, sustainable, and universally accessible tourism with its many implications for reaching the SDGs. Join to get answers to questions such as what can be done in the break in travel to ensure labor protections are ensured for youth and minorities? What can be done to advance digitalization in rural communities that lack visitors and do not have the requisite infrastructure, internet access, or technical knowledge to attract tourist? What can we do at the multilateral level? A Q&A session will be held at the end for student who want to ask questions to the SG directly.
REGISRATION REQUIRED: zoom link will be sent to registered participants in advance of the event
Please join the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Barnard’s Forum on Migration, the Committee on Forced Migration and the European Institute for a screening of the film:
"Paris Stalingrad"
A film by Hind Meddeb
Co-directed by Thim Naccache
Summer 2016. Paris. Refugees arriving from Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Afghanistan
have no other choice than to sleep in the streets. Paris- based filmmaker Hind Meddeb witnessed the French state’s violence against these new immigrants and decided to film their daily life, marred by police raids, massive arrests, and closed immigration offices. She made this film to share her experience of their side of the story.
Introduction and post-film discussion with Hind Meddeb
Moderated by Dr. Lara J. Nettelfield
For Zoom login information, please register here: http://bit.ly/Paris-Stalingrad
Join us for Ian Thorpe’s talk on organizational learning and knowledge management at the United Nations. Reflecting on his work as Chief of UNICEF’s Learning and Knowledge Exchange Section, Ian Thorpe provides deep insights into examples and failures of organizational learning. The talk will highlight how to build skills needed to work in this area and the tools and technologies used to map, analyze and share successful UN programs.
Speaker Bio:
Ian Thorpe is the Chief of the Learning and Knowledge Exchange Section in UNICEF where he leads a team responsible for development and implementation of organization wide approaches, systems and tools for staff learning, knowledge management and exchange, and South-South Cooperation. He has over 20 years of experience within the UN system in evaluation, intranet and web design, communication planning and operations, UN coordination, knowledge management and organizational learning. Prior to that he worked with the UK government and European Commission on statistical capacity building.
Business & Human Rights Roundtable on Collegiate Sourcing November 20th, 2:30 pm -3:30 pm EST, Zoom
The business landscape for college-licensed apparel and other products is a niche market, but one with a long history of active engagement on human rights and sustainability issues. Students, alumni, faculty and administrators have played a key role in driving the demand for responsibly-sourced products, and key companies have innovated in response. Join us for a discussion with university staff from UConn and UCLA who manage global sourcing and licensing, together with business representatives from leading collegiate apparel companies Outerstuff and Colosseum. How is the collegiate apparel sector adapting in the midst of a pandemic, shifting trade relations, and increased attention to the nexus between race, sports and business? These professionals discuss the challenges and opportunities in this unprecedented time. Hosted by the UConn Business & Human Rights Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Office of Global Business Programs, UConn School of Business. Participation by registration only.
Consultancy to Develop a Framework for Identifying Colonialism and Systemic Racism in Humanitarian Programmes
Start Network is seeking a consultant to develop a framework to identify and analyse the influence of systemic racism and colonialism in humanitarian programmes and programme delivery structures/services. You will also support the roll-out of the framework and training on how to use it. RFP here.
