Event

Event Overview

On November 18, join us for a conversation with Tanya Greene, Director of the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch.

Drawing on her experience in legal advocacy and the work of her organization, Greene will explore how current policy shifts are impacting fundamental human rights. The event offers an opportunity to reflect on the evolving landscape of human rights in the U.S. and consider how legal and other advocacy efforts are responding.

The topics of discussion will include:

• The state of the freedom of speech, protest, and expression in communities, academia and the media;
• Immigration enforcement, its violence, and its disparate impact on people of color, regardless of legal status;
• Trends in the use of the criminal legal system in relation to the free exercise of rights; and
• Threats to democracy and the rule of law.

Lunch will be provided.

About the Speakers:

Tanya Greene is the Director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch where she leads the organization’s team focused on exposing and addressing human rights violations in the United States. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Greene spent five years as the inaugural national ACLU criminal justice Advocacy and Policy Counsel focused on death penalty, indigent defense, and juvenile justice policy reform issues. Greene is an attorney with over 25 years of experience in advocacy, policy reform, community organizing, partnerships, and litigation aimed at challenging and dismantling racist structures and systems in the US criminal legal system and beyond.

Professor Gerald L. Neuman (moderator) is the Director of the School’s Human Rights Program, and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at HLS. Neuman teaches courses in international human rights law, immigration and nationality law, and U.S. constitutional law. From 2011 to 2014, he served as a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee. Neuman holds a JD from HLS and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.