Past Events
Explore our past events, many of which you can watch recordings of with closed captions
Lectures & Panels Bring Zack Home: Advocating for the Arbitrarily Detained through Law and Policy 12:30 – 1:15 pm
Zack Shahin's daughter, Meera Shahin, and his lawyer, Rhys Davies, discuss legal strategies and advocacy for his release from detention in the UAE.
Lectures & Panels Refugee Camps in the Global South as an Instrument of Global Refugee Containment: A Conversation with Professor Ralph Wilde Monday, 12:15-1:15 pm
Many critics of camps as violations of human rights law call for the durable solution of host-state integration to be implemented. This presentation argues that such approaches are misconceived when they ignore the link between containment in camps and global-containment, and the role of international law in enabling the latter.
Lectures & Panels Cultural Destruction in Armed Conflict: The Attack on Yemen’s Heritage and Why It Matters Tuesday, 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Robert Bevan and Eman Homaid examine the destruction of cultural heritage in armed conflict with a focus on the recent harm done to archaeological, historic, and religious sites in Yemen and discuss legal protections and ground-level responses.
Lectures & Panels Shifting the Sands: When Do Corporations have Positive Duties to Fulfil Socio-Economic Rights? Tuesday, 4:00–5:00 pm
Bonita Meyersfeld contends that corporations ought to bear affirmative responsibilities in upholding all human rights, notably socio-economic rights, under international human rights law.
