Critical Voices: Money & Right-Wing Influence: Threats to Democracy and Human Rights

CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY

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.

Critical Voices: Impeachment and Beyond

CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY

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.

Critical Voices: Confronting Harm Caused by Multinational Corporations

CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY

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.

Critical Voices: Resistance Movement in Hong Kong

CUNY School of Law 2 Court Square West, Long Island City, NY

Sharon 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, NY

OutRight 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.