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2020 Jun 17
India’s COVID Democracy Crisis: Lockdown of Labour and Liberties
Registration Closed 12:00pm to 1:15pm
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In response to the public health crisis of COVID, India has imposed one of the most stringent and ill prepared lockdowns in the world, leading to a humanitarian disaster. Over 700 people have died unrelated to the virus but due to distress directly caused by the lockdown, such as hunger. Even as the state has flexed its executive muscle, activating police forces to enforce the lockdown with...
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2020 Jun 11
Police Brutality in the United States: A Conversation with Agnes Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
Registration Closed 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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The killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, as well as countless black people has sparked protests around the country. Join the Carr Center for a conversation with Agnes Callamard, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Callamard and other UN experts have called on the U.S. government "to take decisive action to address systemic racism and racial bias in the criminal justice system by launching independent investigations and ensuring accountability in all cases of excessive use of force by police." 
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2020 Jun 23
Technology and Human Rights in the Age of the Pandemic 
Registration Closed 12:00pm to 1:15pm
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Join the Carr Center for a conversation with leading technology scholars and policy makers on a range of ethical and rights concerns related to technology and its current applications. 
Panelists:
• Joan Donovan | Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
• Vivek Krishnamurthy | Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)...
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Sushma Raman. 6/29/2020. “Attacks on the Press Track a Democratic Backslide.” Foreign Policy . See full text. Abstract

According to Sushma Raman, freedom of press is eroding around the world - including in democratic countries.

The recent conviction of the journalist Maria Ressa in the Philippines for “cyber libel” has brought into sharp relief the global deterioration of press freedom. Across the world, fundamental freedoms of association, expression, and assembly are under threat. A recent report from Civicus found that twice as many people live under repression today as a year ago. Although much of that is due to diminishing freedoms in countries whose governments have long been known for their heavy hands, an increasing number of attacks on the media have come in places where press freedom was once enshrined.

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2020 Jul 15
Civic Engagement and Human Rights: Reviving U.S. Democracy
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Join us for a conversation with Danielle Allen, Director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and John Shattuck, Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, as they discuss their common purpose of reviving American Democracy in the 21st Century. 
Professor Allen has recently worked with The American Academy to release Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century. A report which lays out a case for renewed civic faith. It offers a set of recommendations for building a fresh collective commitment to...
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2020 Jul 16
Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Portals with Ruha Benjamin
Registration Closed 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Join us for a conversation with Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.
Panelists: 
• Ruha Benjamin | Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
• Sushma Raman (Moderator) | Executive Director, Carr Center 
 
Ruha Benjamin is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton...
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Joan Donovan. 7/1/2020. “You Purged Racists From Your Website? Great, Now Get to Work.” Wired. See full text.Abstract

Joan Donovan explains that the covid-19 infodemic has taught social media giants an important lesson: they must take action to control the content on their sites. 

For those who follow the politics of platforms, Monday’s great expulsion of malicious content creators was better late than never. For far too long, a very small contingent of extremely hateful content creators have used Silicon Valley’s love of the First Amendment to control the narrative on commercial content moderation. By labeling every effort to control their speech as “censorship,” these individuals and groups managed to create cover for their use of death threats, harassment, and other incitements to violence to silence opposition. For a long time, it has worked. Until now. In what looks like a coordinated purge by Twitch, Reddit, and YouTube, the reckoning is here for those who use racism and misogyny to gain attention and make money on social media.

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2020 Jul 30
The Pompeo Commission on Unalienable Rights: A Selective Vision of Human Rights
Registration Closed 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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The establishment of the Commission on Unalienable Rights (“Pompeo Commission”) in 2019 prompted concern among human rights advocates and academics that the Commission could redirect U.S. human rights policy in ways that would be self-defeating and would create serious damage to international cooperation for the protection of human rights.
The Commission released a draft report last week accompanied by a ...
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For Myanmar's Elections to Be Free and Fair Rohingya Must Get the Right to Vote

July 27, 2020

Matthew Smith calls on the international community do everything in their power to ensure the Rohingya have the right to vote in Myanmar's upcoming election.... Read more about For Myanmar's Elections to Be Free and Fair Rohingya Must Get the Right to Vote

2020 Sep 11
Open House: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Registration Closed 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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We welcome you to join us for our annual Open House event. Learn more about the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and our dual mission: to educate students and the next generation of leaders from around the world in human rights policy and practice; and to convene and provide policy-relevant knowledge to international organizations, governments, policymakers, and businesses. We will be sharing more information on courses offered by Carr Center Faculty, various opportunities for student engagement, and research programs....
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