Human rights advocates from the UN, the ACLU, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation discuss surveillance, national security, privacy, and international norms. Speakers: Alexander Abdo, Philip Alston, Frank LaRue, Katitza Rodriguez. (Recorded: Sep 19, 2013)
This discussion focuses on on-the-ground dynamics and how advocates can best support the struggle for human rights in these countries. Speakers: Taras Karasiichuk, Igor Kochetkov, Ana Rekhviashvili. (Recorded: Sep 19, 2013)
How has Pakistan experienced the “war on terror”? What have been the long-term implications of that war for the human rights of ordinary Pakistanis? Speakers: Sarah Belal, Shamila Chaudhary, Asim Rafiqui, Saadia Toor. (Recorded: Sep 13, 2013)
Sasha Abramsky and Bob Herbert discuss Abramsky’s new book, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. The book explores stories of people struggling to survive the country’s rising economic inequality. Speakers: Sasha Abramsky, Bob Herbert. (Recorded: Sep 12, 2013)
Denis Mizne discusses how recent mass protests in Brazil fit into the wider wave of social protest movements around the world and what they mean for Brazil’s internal political processes. Speakers: Heloisa Griggs, Denis Mizne. (Recorded: Jul 30, 2013)
Open Society Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown discusses her research on illicit economies including logging, wildlife poaching, human trafficking, the drug trade, and maritime piracy. Speakers: Vanda Felbab-Brown, Sarah Pray. (Recorded: Jul 24, 2013)
A conversation with two leading experts on race and community–police partnerships: Baltimore’s Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Russell and national scholar Dr. Phillip Goff. Speakers: Phillip Atiba Goff, Joe Jones, Diana Morris, Melvin Russell. (Recorded: Jun 17, 2013)
This discussion explores recent revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. Speakers: Morton Halperin, Jameel Jaffer, Aryeh Neier, Faiza Patel. (Recorded: Jul 10, 2013)
Open Society Fellow David Cole explores the role of civil society organizations in defending constitutional rights. Speakers: David Cole, Kenneth H. Zimmerman. (Recorded: Jun 13, 2013)
Award-winning journalist Philip Shishkin discusses his new book, an on-the-ground account of Central Asia’s unfolding history from 2005 to the present. Speakers: Alexander Cooley, Philip Shishkin. (Recorded: Jun 10, 2013)
A panel reflects on the recent trial and conviction of former Guatemalan dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide. The ruling was subsequently overturned by Guatemala’s constitutional court, plunging the case into a state of legal limbo. Speakers: Emi MacLean, Helen Mack, Aryeh Neier. (Recorded: May 22, 2013)
Open Society Fellow Mark Gevisser reports on his research into the global revolution of ideas that is changing how people think about gender identity and sexual orientation. Speakers: Mark Gevisser, Daniel Wolfe. (Recorded: April 17, 2013)
Open Society Fellow Jameel Jaffer discusses the U.S. government's broad and largely secret campaign of surveillance in the name of national security. Speakers: Jameel Jaffer, Lisa Magarrell. (Recorded: April 08, 2013)
Open Society Fellow Jameel Jaffer discusses legal challenges to the US government's drone program and its refusal to release more information about it. Speakers: Jonathan Horowitz, Jameel Jaffer. (Recorded: March 28, 2013)
Moises Naim of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace speaks with Open Society Foundations president Chris Stone about Naim’s book The End of Power. Speakers: Moises Naim, Chris Stone. (Recorded: March 08, 2013)
This panel discussion explores the inspiring initiatives profiled in the new Open Society Foundations report, Transforming Health: International Rights-Based Advocacy for Trans Health. Speakers: Kellan Baker, Adrien Lawyer, Anita Radix, David Scamell, Liesl Theron. (Recorded: February 26, 2013)
Pioneering journalist P. Sainath looks at the worsening crisis among India’s rural poor and offers some provocative solutions. Speakers: Julia Harrington Reddy, P. Sainath. (Recorded: December 07, 2012)
In this provocative discussion, Open Society Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown brings fresh and unexpected insights to the study of seven illicit economies. Speakers: Vanda Felbab-Brown, Rupert Skilbeck.(Recorded: December 05, 2012)
A discussion with journalist Sasha Abramsky on who is poor in the United States and why and how poverty manifests itself in the lives of individuals and communities. Speakers: Sasha Abramsky, Elise Dellinger, Eyal Press. (Recorded: Dec 03, 2012)
Sandra Orlović and Mario Mažić, human rights activists from Serbia and Croatia, discuss challenges and prospects of transitional justice in these two countries that have decisive roles in shaping the future of the Balkans. Speakers: Mario Mažić, Sandra Orlović, Beka Vuco. (Recorded: Nov 30, 2012)
Óscar Ramírez recently discovered he is a survivor of the 1982 Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. His story is part of the effort to uncover what happened in a bloody civil war, and to bring perpetrators to account. Speakers: Kate Doyle, Scott Greathead, Emi MacLean, Fredy Peccerelli, Óscar Ramírez. (Recorded: Sep 26, 2012)
Leading Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid talks with Omar Samad, formerly Afghanistan's Ambassador to Canada and France, about new thinking for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Speakers: Ahmed Rashid, Omar Samad, Faisal Bari. (Recorded: Sep 14, 2012)
Open Society Fellow Janie Chuang explores the role of labor law in preventing human trafficking, protecting vulnerable migrant workers, and holding perpetrators accountable for abuses of migrants’ rights. Speakers: Janie Chuang, Maria Teresa Rojas. (Recorded: Jul 16, 2012)
This panel event marks the release of a report that documents the police practice of using condoms as evidence of prostitution and its impact on sex workers’ lives, including their vulnerability to HIV. Speakers: Sienna Baskin, Kholi Buthelezi, Sian Maseko, Acacia Shields. (Recorded: Jul 17, 2012)
This panel discussion examines how nondemocratic regimes in the former Soviet Union have increased their efforts to influence policymakers and public opinion in the United States and the European Union. Speakers: Gerald Knaus, Khadija Ismayilova, Ken Silverstein, Lincoln Mitchell. (Recorded: Jun 28, 2012)
This panel event, featuring Alexander Cooley, author of Great Games, Local Rules, examines Central Asia's lessons for governing a multipolar or "post-Western" world. Speakers: Alexander Cooley, Gideon Rose, Stephen Kotkin, Leonard Benardo. (Recorded: Jun 26, 2012)
Open Society Foundations president Aryeh Neier moderates a discussion with the recipients of a fellowship that provides talented young activists the opportunity to work with experts at the ACLU and Human Rights Watch to strengthen respect for human rights in the United States. Speakers: Aryeh Neier, Erlin Ibreck, Anjana Malhotra, Mie Lewis, Alice Farmer, Sarah Mehta, Ian Kysel, Laura Silber. (Recorded: May 31, 2012)
Peter Edelman, who resigned from the Clinton administration to protest the treatment of the nation’s poor, joins Laura Flanders, host of GRITtv with Laura Flanders, to discuss the poverty crisis in America today. Speakers: Laura Flanders, Peter Edelman, Mimi Corcoran. (Recorded: May 22, 2012)
Open Society Foundations president Aryeh Neier and writer Ian Buruma discuss Neier's book, The International Human Rights Movement: A History. Speakers: Aryeh Neier, Ian Buruma. (Recorded: May 08, 2012)
What is the fate of privacy in our uncertain digital future? An opinionated group of panelists explores the commercial, policy, and national security implications of the privacy controversy. Speakers: Evgeny Morozov, Chris Soghoian, Elaine Lammert, Jane Yakowitz, Brendan Greeley, Stephen Hubbell. (Recorded: April 16, 2012)
