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A New Start for U.S. Human Rights Policy: What Needs to Be Done?
Thu, December 10th, 2020
Live Online
To mark Human Rights Day 2020, the Carnegie Endowment and the Open Society Foundations invite you to a special symposium:
Advancing an effective U.S. human rights policy will be a crucial and formidable challenge for the Biden administration. This event will bring leading human rights activists and officials from different parts of the world to address three major questions. First, what are the most important changes and challenges human rights activists around the world face today? Second, what new approaches, priorities, and partners should the Biden administration pursue to rebuild U.S. credibility on human rights? How can enhanced transatlantic cooperation on human rights be part of the new picture?
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
Event Speakers
Karen Attiah
Karen Attiah is the Global Opinions editor at the Washington Post, where she commissions and edits commentary on global issues from a variety of international writers.
Patrick Gaspard
Patrick Gaspard is president of the Open Society Foundations. He was the U.S. ambassador to South Africa and senior political advisor during the Obama Administration.
Eamon Gilmore
Eamon Gilmore is the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights and has also served as EU Special Envoy for the Colombian Peace Process since October 2015.
Maina Kiai
Maina Kiai served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association until 2017. Currently, Kiai is the head of Human Rights Watch’s new Alliances and Partnerships Initiative.
Márta Pardavi
Márta Pardavi is co-chair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. Currently, Pardavi is a Policy Leader Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute.