Join the Sorensen Center for a discussion with United Nations Special Rapporteur, Philip Alston, and moderated by UNSR, Maina Kiai.

Alston’s report on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States was presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva in June 2018 and is currently being discussed in congressional briefings in Washington, DC. Alston has also written a recent Report on Privatization (2018) addressing the often systematic elimination of human rights protections and further marginalization of the interests of low income earners and those living in poverty and reimagining human rights accountability.

Kiai is a prominent Kenyan human rights lawyer who leads a new partnership initiative at Human Rights Watch to build alliances and engage communities in human rights work. Prior to his work with Human Rights Watch, he served as the first-ever UNSR on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. He held fact-finding missions in Ferguson, Baltimore, Jackson, and other U.S. cities, and urged lawmakers to stop an alarming trend to curb freedom of assembly around Standing Rock, women’s marches, and #BlackLivesMatter.