USC Shoah Foundation hosted a special event Feb. 20, 2016, featuring distinguished guest Zainab Hawa Bangura, United Nations Undersecretary-General and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict….Continue Reading Rape as a Weapon of War – A Conversation with the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict
This event, hosted September 19, 2016, featured Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section of the U.S. Department of Justice….Continue Reading Hunting Down War Criminals & Genocidaires
On January 27, 2016, Elise Keppler of Human Rights Watch discussed her advocacy efforts in Africa for international justice for mass atrocities and the backlash against the International Criminal Court. Ms. Keppler’s presentation included an insider view of what it’s like to be a lawyer in one of the world’s leading human rights organizations….Continue Reading Advocating Justice for Mass Atrocities – A Behind the Scenes Look
A conversation between Nick Koumjian, prosecutor at the ECCC and Prof. Hannah Garry, director of the USC International Human Rights Clinic….Continue Reading Decades after genocide – Is justice possible?
A panel discussion June 22, 2017, to commemorate World Refugee Day at the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law focused on the administration’s anti-refugee policies. Panelists addressed the legal and public health consequences of these policies on the local and national stages, and what advocates can do to fight for refugee rights….Continue Reading The Impact of the Administration’s Immigration Policies on Migrants Fleeing Persecution
Featuring Rebecca Hamilton, Washington Post correspondent and New America Foundation Fellow, April 14, 2015. Rebecca Hamilton’s new book, Fighting for Darfur addresses this timely question and about the global human rights movement’s struggle for awareness on genocide in Darfur, as well as the situation in Libya….Continue Reading Fighting Genocide Around the Globe – What is Our Responsibility?
A conversation February 13, 2015, featuring David Scheffer, Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law….Continue Reading All the Missing Souls- A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
Prof. David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor at the Special Court of Sierra Leone, discussed the effort he has led to seek justice for the hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced since 2011 in Syria’s ongoing civil war. This event took place October 30, 2014….Continue Reading Syria – the Search for Justice and Accountability
The International Human Rights Clinic hosted a screening of War Don Don in February 2013, featuring a discussion with the filmmakers and human rights experts….Continue Reading The Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone & the Charles Taylor Trial
Dr. Kosal Path, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide and lecturer at USC School of International Relations, spoke September 25, 2012, about growing up under the Khmer Rouge and Cambodians’ debate about restorative and retributive justice in response to trials before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia….Continue Reading Surviving the Killing Fields – Reflections from Cambodia on International Justice