Newsletter - December 17th, End-of-Semester News Roundup and Course Listing

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Upcoming J-Term and Spring Courses

Courses in Human Rights

Interested in taking courses that focus on human rights during J-Term and the upcoming semester? Check out the Carr Center's Human Rights Course guide.

Upcoming courses include:

(J-Term) Preventing Mass Atrocities: The Security Council and the International Criminal Court with Luis Moreno Ocampo
(Spring) Nonviolent Resistance in the Age of Authoritarians with Douglas Johnson
(Spring) The Politics of Terrorism: Causes and Consequences from a Global Perspective with Erica Chenoweth
(Spring) Global Governance with Kathryn Sikkink

Learn about all upcoming courses with a focus on human rights.

Carr Center Podcast - Justice Matters

Episode 8, featuring Professor Erica Chenoweth

In the latest episode of Justice Matters, Carr Center's Executive Director Sushma Raman interviews Carr Center Professor Erica Chenoweth on the importance, evolution, and nuances of protests and social movements.

A Holistic Approach to Women's Rights

On December 6, 2018, following Malala Yousafzai’s highly-anticipated event at the Harvard Kennedy School's JFK Jr. Forum , guests gathered to celebrate Yousafzai as the recipient of the 2018 Gleitsman International Activist Award. Ambassador Wendy Sherman was joined by panelists Sushma Raman , Executive Director of the Carr Center ; Jacqueline Bhabha , adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School; and Martha Chen , senior advisor, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).

Read more about the event.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Wrap Up

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Mathias Risse talks about where human rights came from, where they are today, and how far they still have to go

The Universal Declaration gave us a yardstick to judge how we treat each other—and in many ways we’ve come up short. With authoritarianism resurgent around the world, the anniversary should be a “wake-up call,” Risse says.

Read the interview.

Video - The UDHR: Past, Present, and Future

Learn about the critical importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its history, and its significance moving forward.

Watch the video.

In the News

Sikkink - Here’s what Erick Erickson gets wrong about dictators and migration

" In a recent op-ed, conservative writer Erick Erickson argued that the U.S. government should support the “next Pinochets” to create more stability in Latin America and stop the flow of refugees seeking access to the United States. The remark was instantly controversial because Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean dictator who committed massive human rights abuses.

Recent history and social science don’t show that authoritarian regimes stop people from fleeing across borders. They show that they make more people want to flee."

Read the full article by Kathryn Sikkink.