Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, reflects on the Rouhani administration and the prospects for nuclear negotiations and domestic reform. Speakers: Hadi Ghaemi, Anthony Richter. (Recorded: Jun 19, 2014)
Open Society Fellow Jennifer Gordon speaks with activist Greg Asbed about serious flaws in multi-stakeholder initiatives to promote labor rights. Speakers: Greg Asbed, Jennifer Gordon. (Recorded: Jun 11, 2014)
This panel explores the significance of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, and whether China’s rise has broken the long-assumed tie between economic development and an open society. Speakers: Rowena Xiaoqing He, Xiaorong Li, Aryeh Neier, Orville Schell. (Recorded: Jun 11, 2014)
This panel explores how Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Center used strategic litigation and social mobilization to secure legally binding norms and standards for school infrastructure in South Africa. Speakers: Brad Brockman, Jonathon Fairhead, James Goldston, Tracey Gurd, Dmitri Holtzman. (Recorded: Jun 05, 2014)
Will the U.S. leave a legacy of progress or failure in Afghanistan? Three seasoned Afghanistan experts share their opinions of where U.S. policy has stumbled and where it might succeed. Speakers: Steve Coll, Anand Gopal, David Sedney. (Recorded: May 19, 2014)
Three leading thinkers on international justice ask whether and how the International Criminal Court as we know it can survive. Speakers: David Bosco, Carlos Castresana, James Goldston. (Recorded: May 13, 2014)
Jake Porway, executive director of DataKind, explains how NGOs use data, how they can use it better, and what data science can do for civil society. Speakers: Elizabeth Eagen, Jake Porway. (Recorded: May 07, 2014)
Open Society Fellow Mark Gevisser examines how LGBTI rights have become the latest—and hottest—battleground in the global culture wars. Speakers: Mark Gevisser, Michael Heflin. (Recorded: May 06, 2014)
Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz discusses the Nuremberg Trials, the International Criminal Court, and prospects for international justice in the future. Speakers: Benjamin Ferencz, James Goldston. (Recorded: May 02, 2014)
Four civil society activists discuss the evolving human rights challenges facing Ukraine. Speakers: Maksym Butkevych, Alexandra Delemenchuk, Jeff Goldstein, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Volodymyr Shcherbachenko. (Recorded: Apr 28, 2014)
Africa’s rapid urbanization presents severe challenges, but also provides opportunities for advancing democracy and economic development. Speakers: Akwe Amosu, Gavin Silber. (Recorded: Apr 25, 2014)
Journalist Abubakar Siddique discusses his book, The Pashtun Question, on the historical and political roots of conflict in the region—and what the future holds. Speakers: Amna Nawaz, Abubakar Siddique. (Recorded: Apr 14, 2014)
North Korea expert Ishimaru Jiro discusses the situation inside North Korea, two years into Kim Jong-un’s reign. Speakers: Ishimaru Jiro. (Recorded: Apr 14, 2014)
Martin McKee examines the intellectual underpinnings of European austerity, its alarming health consequences, and what can be done to alleviate them. Speaker: Martin McKee. (Recorded: Apr 07, 2014)
Dmitry Gorenburg and a panel of experts look at the long-term impact of external support for Central Asian military and security forces on stability in the region. Speakers: Dmitry Gorenburg, Michael Hall, Scott Horton. (Recorded: Mar 26, 2014)
This event examines how forensic anthropology played a critical role in the landmark genocide conviction of former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt. Speaker: Fredy Peccerelli. (Recorded: Mar 26, 2014)
The World Bank’s Marcelo Giugale explains how direct dividend transfers could help African citizens benefit from their countries’ natural resource wealth. Speakers: Alexandra Gillies, Marcelo Giugale. (Recorded: Mar 24, 2014)
Open Society Fellow Timothy A. Wise takes a detailed look at how public policy impacts access to food in the least developed countries. Speakers: Stephen Hubbell, Timothy A. Wise. (Recorded: Feb 10, 2014)
A discussion with leaders of Freedom to Marry and the National Rifle Association. What can we learn from their success in changing U.S. constitutional law? Speakers: David Cole, David Keene, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Evan Wolfson. (Recorded: Jan 23, 2014)
Open Society Fellow Chris Soghoian explains the ominous implications of widespread government surveillance. Speakers: Stephen Hubbell, Chris Soghoian. (Recorded: Jan 9, 2014)
BBC journalist Natalia Antelava and Matthew Fischer-Daly of the Cotton Campaign discuss Uzbekistan’s ongoing, systematic forced sterilization and forced labor programs. Speakers: Natalia Antelava, Justin Burke, Matt Fischer-Daly. (Recorded: Dec 11, 2013)
Two Open Society Fellows consider the current state of changes brought about by the Arab Spring. Speakers: Asef Bayat, Anthony Richter, Madawi al-Rasheed. (Recorded: Dec 06, 2014)
A panel of experts examine how the war on drugs is undermining the health and well-being of families. Speakers: Dinah Adames, Carl Hart, Sabra Jackson, Emma Ketteringham, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Robert Newman, Lynn Paltrow. (Recorded: Nov 19, 2013)
A panel of experts including Michèle Pierre-Louis, president of the Open Society foundation in Haiti (FOKAL) and former prime minister of Haiti, discuss the dynamics of bringing change to Haiti. Part 2: Panel discussion on justice and impunity in Haiti in relation to the Duvalier case. Speakers: Michèle Montas, Jean-Joseph Exumé, and Michèle Pierre-Louis. (Recorded: Nov 15, 2013)
Kathryn Sikkink and César Rodríguez-Garavito examine the new global trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for past human rights violations through domestic and international prosecutions. Speakers: James Goldston, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Kathryn Sikkink. (Recorded: Nov 13, 2013)
This conversation looks at the work of ASTRADOMES (Association of Domestic Workers), which has advocated for the rights of female workers in Central America for more than 20 years. Speakers: Carolina Jimenez, Beatriz Slooten. (Recorded: Nov 11, 2013)
This conversation explores how sweeping economic reforms and accompanying changes to the social contract are impacting life on the ground in Cuba. Speakers: Katrin Hansing, Uwe Optenhoegel. (Recorded: Nov 04, 2013)
Following the terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, can Kenyan security forces get justice without abusing human rights? Speakers: Francis Auma, Jonathan Horowitz, Hussein Khalid, Sarah Pray. (Recorded: Oct 31, 2013)
Open Society Fellow Sarah Spencer and NYC Commissioner for Immigrant Affairs Fatima Shama discuss the topic of irregular migrants in both a European and American context. Speakers: Archana Sahgal, Fatima Shama, Sarah Spencer. (Recorded: Oct 16, 2013)
This discussion with Lucia Nader of Conectas examines how Brazil’s recent economic slowdown has raised questions about the nature and influence of its foreign policy, particularly with regard to human rights. Speakers: Lucia Nader, Pedro Abramovay, Heloisa Griggs. (Recorded: Oct 09, 2013)
