Events for November 25, 2024 - November 25, 2024

Director of Reprieve, Maya Foa, shares insights into her organization's work to protect vulnerable individuals on death rows and secure justice for victims of abusive counter-terrorism practices, including torture, rendition, extrajudicial imprisonment, and extrajudicial killing.

James Goldston, Executive Director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, and Maina Kiai, 2019 Sorensen Center Scholar-in-Residence, discuss a strategic approach utilizing litigation, advocacy, and movement building in an increasingly authoritarian world.

A "Critical Voices" discussion with Mukami Marete and Dr. Stellah Bosire, Co-Executive Directors of UHAI - The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiatives and queer feminists who have dedicated their lives to strengthening the voices of the LGBTI community in East Africa, and Anne Nelson who has written extensively about human rights and defiance of totalitarian regimes.

The Sorensen Center and the CUNY Law's Office of Student Affairs host a panel discussion with Atiba Ellis, Ruthann Robson, and B.J. Steiner on the impeachment inquiry against President Trump and its wider implications for democracy.

Francisco 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.