Rethinking Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century

A Documentary Film Screening and Discussion in conjunction with CSW59

Event Details

  • Time

    06:00pm

  • Date

    10 Mar, 2015

  • Location

    • The Auditorium at Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
    • 66 West 12th Street New York, NY 10011

  • Contact

    WLP

Mahnaz Afkhami

President and Founder of WLP and former Secretary General of the Women’s Organization of Iran and Minister for Women’s Affairs

Lina Abou-Habib

Senior Advisor for International Partnerships, WLP International, and Executive Director, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A), Lebanon

Abena Busia

Chair of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and Member, Executive Board of the Center for African Studies, Rutgers University.

Yakin Ertürk

Former member of the Council of Europe: Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Turkey

Rabéa Naciri

Founding member, the Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM), and Member of the National Human Rights Council of Morocco

Join WLP and the Gender Studies Program at The New School for the premiere of WLP’s new documentary film, Human Rights: The Unfinished Journey, on advancing human rights in the 21st century. This event is held in conjunction with the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), New York, NY.

In the film, leading experts and activists from across the globe examine how the communications revolution and international emphasis on “hard security” have impacted human rights in the past fifteen years. The film calls for a holistic understanding of universal human rights, examines the links between women’s human rights and political, social, economic and environmental rights, and stresses importance of focusing on human rights in national and international policy discourse.

Terri Gordon, Director, Gender Studies Program and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at The New School, will welcome those gathered. Following the film screening, experts and practitioners from around the world will discuss effective strategies for human rights advocacy under new conditions. Panelists will explore the current state of human rights, and measures needed to strengthen the movement as a foundation for human security and the advancement of peaceful and democratic societies. 

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