Critical Voices: Confronting Harm Caused by Multinational Corporations
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NYFrancisco Ramirez Cuellar, chief counsel for strategic litigation at the National Movement for Victims of Multinational Corporations in Colombia, discusses the impacts of multinational corporations on Afro-Colombian, Indigenous, and Campesino communities and the tactics employed by those communities to confront corporations.
Critical Voices: Resistance Movement in Hong Kong
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NYSharon Hom, Executive Director of Human Rights in China, leads a discussion about the people’s resistance against the authoritarian regime in Beijing.
OutSummit 2019
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NYOutRight Action International sponsors the annual one-day conference, OutSummit, co-hosted by the Sorensen Center and CUNY Law Review. OutSummit brings together international and US-based LGBTIQ activists for a day of panels, keynote speakers, and workshops to address legal and social attitudes about sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex issues globally.
Global Social Justice is Possible: Transnational Human Rights Litigation in Times of Cholera
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY2020 Scholar-in-Residence, Wolfgang Kaleck leads the first in a series of human rights seminars.
Opening Reception – Guantánamo [Un]Censored: Art from Inside the Prison
CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NYMarking the 18th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay prison, a new art installation features works created by men incarcerated without charge or fair process at the infamous facility.