By UCTV
Enrich your understanding of human rights ideas and practices.
Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, draws on her years of experience as a lawyer and Sri Lankan Human Rights Commissioner to address the many challenges in protecting boys and girls caught in wars...
Leaders of UC San Diego’s Campus Community Centers explain how they’ve created national models for enhancing diversity and social justice in higher education. Series: "IDEaS" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20901]
Stephen J. Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large on War Crimes, gives a harrowing account of worldwide crimes against humanity, particularly in conflict zones, where victims have nowhere to turn for justice. Ambassador Rapp is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Tom Segev for a discussion of his new book, The Life and Legends of Simon Wiesenthal. The conversation focuses on the roots of Wiesenthal's passionate commitment to justice and explores his lifelong quest to...
UC Berkeley alumna Geralyn Ryan produced this video oral history from interviewing the employees of the Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, during the reconstruction post Hurricane Katrina. Ms. Ryan produced this video as part of a master’s thesis....
Nasser Barghouti, President of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination League in San Diego, examines the root causes of conflict in the Middle East and offers a vision for resolution that he argues is based on universal concepts of human rights. He...
Mark Juergensmeyer of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at UC Santa Barbara welcomes Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist, author, and one of Egypt's leading human rights and democracy activists. A professor of sociology at the American...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Laurence R. Simon of Brandeis University for a discussion of the role of non governmental organizations in addressing global poverty. Topics discussed include the conflict between focused aid and national security interests, religion...
Louise Arbour, the former High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations, lays out a strategy for integrating security, development and human rights around the world in this talk to the Joan B.Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at...
In the weeks following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration decided to house "enemy combatants" at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- out of reach, the administration believed, of the ordinary civilian and...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes New Yorker writer Jane Mayer to discuss her book, “The Dark Side.” She explains how, under the direction of Vice President Cheney and his Assistant David Addington, the Bush administration, contrary to American history and...
UCLA Professor Abou El Fadl is a major contemporary Islamic thinker, a strong supporter of human rights, and America’s leading authority on Islamic law, who works to bring about constructive transformations in Muslim political theology. Series: "Burke Lectureship on Religion...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Major General Antonio M. Taguba for a discussion on his inquiry into Abu Ghraib. They discuss the relation of the military to the rule of law and the relevance of the Geneva Conventions to...
Lynn Hunt, UCLA Professor of Modern European History, discusses the genesis of human rights, a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared all men are created equal and the...
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth explains how environmental abuse has led to human rights violations in Darfur, Nigeria, Indonesia and Angola in the first of this season’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Distinguished Lecture...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard philosophy professor T. M. Scanlon for a discussion of freedom of expression, tolerance, and human rights. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12356]
Chaplain James J. Yee, a former U.S. Army Chaplain and graduate of West Point served as the Muslim Chaplain for the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. Captain Yee was arrested and imprisoned in a naval brig before being cleared...
Three women of international renown share their experience in fostering peace and human rights in Uganda, the Philippines and Colombia in this edition of the Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series at the Institute for Peace & Justice at...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Iranian journalist and human rights activist Akbar Ganji for a discussion of the dynamics of change in Iran. Topics covered include the Iranian Revolution in comparative context, the problem of establishing democracy in Islamic societies,...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler interviews medical doctor Larry Brilliant, the executive director of Google.org. Dr. Brilliants reflects on lessons learned in his life’s work--a spiritual and humanitarian odyssey to use science and technology to define and address some of...
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi for a discussion of her remarkable odyssey as a human rights lawyer in Iran under the rule of the mullahs. She discusses the effects of revolutionary change in Iran, on...
Amnesty International USA Executive Director William Schulz takes the Bush Administration to task for its post -9/11 record on human rights in this installment of the 2006 Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace &...
Journalist and UC Berkeley professor Mark Danner chides the Bush Administration for what he sees as its poor record on torture and human rights. A panel discussion follows to complete the 2006 DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture event, sponsored by Earl...