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2017 Sep 12
Open House & Exhibition: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: 
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th floor
We welcome you to join us for our annual Open House event. Learn more about the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and our mission to realize global justice through theory, policy, and practice.
We will discuss ways to get involved with the Carr Center, including learning and funding opportunities for students. There will also be a chance to meet and network with our faculty and ...
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2020 Sep 11
Open House: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Registration Closed 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Virtual Event (Registration Required)
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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2017 May 04
Open Study Group Session: The Democracy Crisis in Europe and the US: A Comparative Perspective" Study Group
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: 
Littauer 324, Fainsod Room HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 02138
 
The next open meeting of the Spring 2017 “The Democracy Crisis in Europe and the US: A Comparative Perspective” Study Group led by Ambassador John Shattuck will be held on:
 
Thursday, May 4th, 2017, 4:00-5:30PM
Littauer 324, Fainsod Room, HKS, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 02138
 
Title: "The Attack on Democracy in Europe and the US: The Illiberal Governance Model"
 
There will be three readings for this session.
1. " Civil Society Independence - Democracy...
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2019 Oct 22
Organized Crime, Migrants and Human Rights in Central and North America
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Rubenstein 229
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy welcomes Sergio Aguayo (Professor,  El Colegio de Mexico and Fellow, FXB) to deliver a talk titled, "Organized Crime, Migrants and Human Rights in Central and North America." Jacqueline Bhabha ( FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School) will serve as the moderator.
 
Sergio Aguayo: ...
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2020 Jun 12
People Power in the Face of Authoritarianism in Nicaragua
Registration Closed 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
Virtual Event (Registration Required)
A conversation with Nicaraguan human rights defenders about the trials, triumphs and future challenges of people power in Nicaragua in a context of democratic decay, decreasing civic space and authoritarianism since the return of Daniel Ortega to power in 2007.
Panelists
• Amaya Coppens Zamora | Activist, Medical Student, Political Prisoner
• Mateo Jarquín Chamorro | Assistant Professor, Chapman University 
• Mónica López Baltodano | Activist,...
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2020 Nov 05
Philanthropy and Inequality
Registration Closed 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Virtual Event (Registration Required)
Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice. 
Panelists:
• Dr. Carmen Rojas | President and CEO, Marguerite...
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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
Location: 
Virtual Event (Registration Required)
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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2018 Apr 04
Pollak Lecture Series with Richard Locke -- Labor Problem: Can we Create Just Supply Chains in the Global Economy?
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Wiener Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
On April 4, the Pollak Lecture Series will feature a lecture by Provost Richard Locke of Brown University. Richard M. Locke is provost and Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and Public and International Affairs at Brown University. Before joining Brown in 2014 as the director of the Watson Institution for International and Public Affairs, he had been a member of the MIT faculty of 25 years, including serving as chair of the...
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2020 Nov 17
POSTPONED: Towards Life 3.0: A Conversation with Shoshana Zuboff
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Virtual Event (Registration Required)
POSTPONED TO SPRING SEMESTER
Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-...
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2021 Jan 14
POSTPONED :Democracy at Risk: Reckoning with the Capitol Insurrection
Registration Closed 1:00pm to 2:15pm
Location: 
Virtual Event (Registration Required)
 
This event has been postponed. 
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