In a recent episode of Justice Matters, Albert Fox Cahn discussed building the technologies of the future and the ways in which AI is already undermining civil rights: http://bit.ly/3UB8pfm
Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Higher Education
Cambridge, MA 8,249 followers
The hub of the Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in the human rights domain
About us
Since its founding in 1999, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School has been a leading research center that has focused on some of the most intractable challenges facing the world, including genocide, torture, violence against women, and human trafficking. The Center was founded by director Michael Ignatieff, currently President of Central European University, and Executive Director Samantha Power, who was later U.S. Ambassador to the UN. In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2018, the Center looked back to examine the progress made to date, and the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead. Its new areas of focus include the impact of technological advancements on the future of human rights; the power and impact of nonviolent social movements in effecting change; and the renewal of rights and responsibilities in the United States. Its current Director, Mathias Risse, is a philosopher and ethicist focused on global justice. Its current Executive Director, Maggie Gates, formerly the Assistant Director of Communications and Development at the Safra Center at Harvard University. By training the next generation of leaders, developing new knowledge and ideas, and holding convenings for human rights scholars and practitioners around the world, the Carr Center seeks to build a more just, peaceful future.
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"I have been an activist and community leader in anti-gender-based violence and labor rights, working with NGOs in China and Latin America. Growing up in China, I’m familiar with state violence and censorship in the human rights arena and the humanitarian process," says Kris Li (MPP '26), HKS student and one of the Carr Center's 2024–25 Student Ambassadors. Read the full interview: bit.ly/40TF8R2
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🎙 Amani Matabaro Tom, Scholar at Risk at the Carr Center, joined us on Justice Matters to discuss the current state of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the history of colonialism and the exploitation of natural resources in the region, the role of foreign companies and their impact on the region, and the work his organization is doing on the ground to build peace: bit.ly/4i0Bo6H
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Our new Carr in Conversation event series brings a wide range of experts to discuss how we can address human rights challenges in the U.S. and abroad. This fall, we spoke with Jill Collen Jefferson, Ricardo Hausmann, Rachel Adams, Asa Hutchinson, Kenneth Roth, and Camilo Eduardo Umaña Hernández about a wide variety of human rights-related issues, from the continued push for greater civil rights in the U.S. and the future of U.S. foreign policy under a second Trump presidency to the threat of misusing AI: bit.ly/3Ohzl0f
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🎙️ In a recent episode of Justice Matters, Kimberly Zieselman, Senior Advisory to the Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons, U.S. State Department, discusses the history of medical treatments used against intersex people: https://bit.ly/3Zzm8GA
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"One thing about authoritarian regimes, including Russia, is that most are still afraid of both domestic and international publicity," said Maria Kuznetsova, MPP '25 and Scholar at Risk, in a recent interview with the Carr Center on human rights advocacy in Russia: bit.ly/4fG9LhE
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The Carr in Conversation series examines human rights issues both at home and abroad, bringing in a wide range of experts to discuss how to address challenges to these rights. Watch Asa Hutchinson discuss the future of the GOP in the United States, and hear from other experts as well: https://bit.ly/3ZfRjp0
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The Carr Center recently hosted a breakfast and conversation with Wai Wai Nu, a Burmese human rights activist. Nu spoke about events within the past decade in Myanmar that have caused political and social turmoil throughout the nation, and the need for international attention and advocacy. Click here to read the full article: https://bit.ly/3ATHzsp
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Event cancelled: The event scheduled for 11:00am today has unfortunately been cancelled due to technical issues.
Tomorrow! Join us for a webinar on "The History of Holocaust Studies at Harvard" with Jack Nusan Porter, Research Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University: bit.ly/4f6XNwg
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"The truth is that analog life is being left behind," writes Justice Luís Roberto Barroso in a new Carr Center Discussion Paper, "Artificial Intelligence: Promises, Risks, and Regulation: Something New Under the Sun": bit.ly/3BpSM46
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