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Championing Human Rights Around the World

Beginning in 1999, The Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights brings a distinguished scholar or leading expert on human rights to UNO each year.

September 2019 - Special Goldstein Lecture
The Current State of International Criminal Justice
The Honorable Richard Goldstone

The Current State of International Criminal Justice

March 2019
The Future is History: How Totalitariansim Reclaimed Russia
Masha Gessen

The Future is History

April 2018
A Revolution of Value in the Age of Trump
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

A Revolution of Value in the Age of Trump

April 2017
ENSLAVED: A Visual Story of Modern Day Slavery
Lisa Kristine

ENSLAVED

March 2016
Different Kinds of Minds Contribute to Society
Temple Grandin

Different Kinds of Minds Contribute to Society

March 2015
Rights and Resources: Understanding Contemporary Challenges to Human Rights in Central America
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy

Rights and Resources

March 2014
Human Rights and the Rights of Nature in an Era of Climate, Energy, Food and Water Crises
Winona LaDuke

Human Rights and the Rights of Nature

2013
What Makes a Family? Is Same Sex Marriage a Human right?
Zach Wahls

What Makes a Family?

2011
The Black Swan of the Middle East
Sarah Leah Whitson

2010
Are Human Rights Organizations Helping or Hurting Relations between Israel, Palestine and the Arabs?
Robert L. Bernstein

Are Human Rights Organizations Helping or Hurting Relations between Israel, Palestine and the Arabs?

2009
Hope for Darfur
Brian Steidle

Hope for Darfur

2008
Minky Worden

An Evening with Minky Worden

2007
Natan Sharansky

An Evening with Natan Sharansky

2006
Human Rights in Development Competing Claims and Economic Empowerment
Stephen P. Marks

Human Rights in Development Competing Claims and Economic Empowerment

2005
Genocide Emergency Sudan: Who will survive today?
Jerry Fowler

Genocide Emergency Sudan

2004
Human Rights: Morality versus Power
David Chandler

2003
Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights
William Schulz

Tainted Legacy

2002
Easy Targets: Children and Human Rights
Jo Becker

2001
China's Great Leap: What Olympic Legacy for Human Rights in China?
Lashawn R. Jefferson

China's Great Leap

2000
Kenneth Roth

1999
On the tenth anniversary of the crackdown of Tiananmen Square
Xiao Qiang

On the tenth anniversary of the crackdown of Tiananmen Square

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