Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights

Special Lecture 2021
A Special Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights: The Right to Health, Equity & the Pursuit of Justice
Dr. Nada Fadul, University of Nebraska Medical Center

2020
Angelic Troublemakers and Immigration: How Faith Leaders Use Ritual as a Human Rights Tool
Najeeba Syeed, Chicago Theological Seminary

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

2016
Different Kinds Of Minds Contribute to Society
Temple Grandin

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

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

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

2011
The Black Swan of the Middle East
Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division Human Rights Watch

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

2009
Hope for Darfur
Brian Steidle, former Marine Captain and executive director of HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere)

2008
An Evening with Minky Worden
Minky Worden, Media Director Human Rights Watch

2007
An Evening with Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Institute for Strategic Studies, The Shalem Center

2006
Human Rights in Development Competing Claims and Economic Empowerment
Stephen P. Marks, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights
Harvard School of Public Health and Visiting Professor, School of Law City University of Hong Kong

2005
Genocide Emergency Sudan: Who will survive today?
Jerry Fowler, J.D. Staff Director Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

2004
Human Rights: Morality versus Power
David Chandler, Senior Lecturer Centre for the Study of Democracy University of Westminster, London

2003
Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights
Dr. William Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International

2002
Easy Targets: Children and Human Rights
Jo Becker, Children's Rights Division Advocacy Director Human Rights Watch

2001
China's Great Leap: What Olympic Legacy for Human Rights in China?
Lashawn R. Jefferson, Director of the Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

2000
An Evening with Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director Human Rights Watch

1999
On the tenth anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square
Xiao Qiang, Champion of Democracy