Law, Leadership, Influence

Maina Kiai is a globally recognized Kenyan human rights activist who served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2011-2017) and now heads Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships program. This intensive two-day course offered in April 2020 explored the normative international framework around protest, in order to critically examine through documentaries and social movement literature, new and emerging protest movements across Africa with their changing ecosystems.

Maina Kiai is a globally recognized Kenyan human rights activist who served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2011-2017) and now heads Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships program. This intensive two-day course offered in April 2020 explored the normative international framework around protest, in order to critically examine through documentaries and social movement literature, new and emerging protest movements across Africa with their changing ecosystems.

Maina Kiai is a globally recognized Kenyan human rights activist who served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2011-2017) and now heads Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships program. This intensive two-day course offered in April 2020 explored the normative international framework around protest, in order to critically examine through documentaries and social movement literature, new and emerging protest movements across Africa with their changing ecosystems.

Maina Kiai is a globally recognized Kenyan human rights activist who served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2011-2017) and now heads Human Rights Watch's Alliances and Partnerships program. This intensive two-day course offered in April 2020 explored the normative international framework around protest, in order to critically examine through documentaries and social movement literature, new and emerging protest movements across Africa with their changing ecosystems.

Astrid Lindfelt LLM'20 and Marie-Sophie Revault LLM'20 share details regarding their research on Sweden and France for the Penn Law seminar on 'International Women's Human Rights.'

Sarah Heberlig L’21 pulls on experiences from her Penn Law seminars on 'Women, Law, and Leadership' and 'International Women's Human Rights' to reflect on the power of storytelling to catalyze change at a corporate and societal level.

International Women's Human Rights Class's Zahra Keshwani L'21 speaks on her research.

Women in the Penn Law Class on International Women's Human Rights speak out on policy solutions: Eduarda Lague L'21, Alyssa Cannizzaro L'21, Blanche Helbling L'21.

Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

in conversation with Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Associate Dean for International Affairs.