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Aminta Ossom

Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School

Aminta Ossom is a Clinical Instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic. She focuses on equality, inclusion, and economic and social rights. She also has research interests in human rights diplomacy, the role of identity in advocacy, and symbioses between civil and human rights movements.... Read more about Aminta Ossom

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Matthew Smith

Carr Center Fellow
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortify Rights

Matthew Smith is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortify Rights, a human rights organization based in Southeast Asia...

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2019 Feb 01
Study Group: Human Trafficking - Empowerment-based Approaches in Anti-Human Trafficking
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138
Please join us for a study group on human trafficking at the Harvard Kennedy School!
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on empowerment-based approaches in anti-human trafficking. The study group, which will meet three times this semester, is convened and moderated by Dr. Laura Cordisco Tsai, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
APPLY NOW: Registration is capped at 20 participants. To...
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2019 Mar 01
Study Group: Human Trafficking - Empowerment-based Approaches in Anti-Human Trafficking
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138
Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138
Please join us for a study group on human trafficking at the Harvard Kennedy School!
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on empowerment-based approaches in anti-human trafficking. The study group, which will meet three times this semester, is convened and moderated by Dr. Laura Cordisco Tsai, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy....
Read more about Study Group: Human Trafficking - Empowerment-based Approaches in Anti-Human Trafficking
2019 Apr 05
Study Group: Human Trafficking - Empowerment-based Approaches in Anti-Human Trafficking
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 
Rubenstein, Ground Floor, Room 21
Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138
Please join us for a study group on human trafficking at the Harvard Kennedy School!
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on empowerment-based approaches in anti-human trafficking. The study group, which will meet three times this semester, is convened and moderated by Dr. Laura Cordisco Tsai, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy....
Read more about Study Group: Human Trafficking - Empowerment-based Approaches in Anti-Human Trafficking
2019 Mar 06
Study Group: Technology and Human Rights - Disinformation
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138
Please join us for a study group on technology and human rights at the Harvard Kennedy School!
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on technology, human rights and artificial intelligence. The study group, which will meet three times this semester, is convened and moderated by Steven Livingston, Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
This is an open study group. No registration is required.
The...
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Human Rights in the Face of Emerging Technology

January 2, 2019

In the latest episode of Justice Matters, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Senior Fellow at the Carr Center, discusses the complex challenges of the human rights movement in the face of emerging technology and artificial intelligence.... Read more about Human Rights in the Face of Emerging Technology

2019 Apr 25
Workshop: Human Rights Advocacy - Writing to Persuade & Building Coalitions
12:30pm to 1:45pm
Location: 
Littauer-324
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a workshop on human rights advocacy! The workshop is convened and moderated by Elisa Massimino, Former President of Human Rights First & Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Description:
Human rights advocacy can often seem a bit quixotic. But progress is possible. The problems we tackle need serious, hard-nosed strategies and activists with the skills to execute them. In this...
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2019 Mar 13
Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Autocratic Legalism in New Turkey
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
Taubman 102
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is excited to announce its 2019 Speaker Series: Human Rights in Hard Places, facilitated by Harvard Kennedy School Lecturer, Douglas A. Johnson. 
The Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series was formed to underscore that despite the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, vast human rights abuses are still occurring 7 decades later. 
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Salil Shetty. 12/16/2018. “Can Technology deliver freedoms for India’s poor? ”. See full text.Abstract

Talk given by Carr Center's Senior Fellow Salil Shetty at TechFest IIT Bombay.

"My talk today is addressed to concerned citizens who are not experts on the subject. Many of the issues I am touching on require a much more complex and nuanced treatment but this talk is deliberately taking a simpler narrative."

Read Salil Shetty's complete presentation here: https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/cchr/files/can_tech_salil_shetty_01.pdf

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