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Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 11:45am - 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Kennedy School, Allison Dining Room, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights-challenges-heroes-who-are-creating-change?delta=0#

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Social Sciences,Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Speaker(s):
<strong>Kerry Kennedy</strong><br /><em>President of Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights</em> Link:
https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/human-rights-challenges-heroes-who-are-creating-change?delta=0#
The Carr Center's Human Rights in Hard Places talk series offers
unparalleled insights and analysis from the frontlines by human rights
practitioners, policy makers, and innovators. Moderated by Sushma
Raman, the series highlights current day human rights and humanitarian
concerns such as human rights in North Korea, migration on the
US-Mexico border, Myanmar, and the dismantling of democracy. Kerry
Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, will give a talk
titled, "Human Rights Challenges & the Heroes Who Are Creating Change"
Kerry Kennedy: Kerry Kennedy is the president of Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights. She is the author of New York Times best-seller, Being
Catholic Now ( Random House 2005), Speak Truth to Power ( Random House
2000) and Robert F. Kennedy; Ripples of Hope ( Hachette 2018). For
more than thirty years, Ms. Kennedy has devoted herself to the pursuit
of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and
the preservation of the rule of law. She has worked on a range of
issues, including children's rights, child labor, disappearances,
indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression,
ethnic violence, impunity, and the environment. She has concentrated
specifically on women's rights, exposing injustices and educating
audiences about women's issues, particularly honor killings, sexual
slavery, domestic violence, workplace discrimination, sexual assault,
abuse of prisoners, and more. She has led hundreds of human rights
delegations.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 11:45 to 13:00

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