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Binaifer Nowrojee | Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Flyer for Oct 16 panel talk on human rights

UC Berkeley Special Event: 
Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World
with
Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations

In conversation with
Angana P. Chatterji, Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley

Munis D. Faruqui, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies and Associate Professor, Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies; and Director, Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

Laurel E. Fletcher, Chancellor’s Clinical Professor of Law; Co-Faculty Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law; and Director, Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law

Alexa Koenig, Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center; Director, HRC’s Investigations Program; and Research Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Sharan Srinivas, Director, Protecting Rights Defenders, Open Society Foundations

and
Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law; and Director, Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley

Welcome and Introductions by
Lok Siu, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research; and Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Event open to UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty only.
Registration required.**
*Must show Cal 1 Card for entrance. Security screening required. 

**Registration does not guarantee a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served. Location will be provided one day before the event.

Event hosted by the Center for Race & Gender, the Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, the Hon. G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, the Institute for South Asia Studies, the Human Rights Center, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.

  • Type: Registration (Required)
  • Email: centerrg@berkeley.edu
  • Website: Registration Link


Ariana Ceja, centerrg@berkeley.edu, 510-642-8276

Organizers

Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Human Rights Center
Center for Race and Gender
Institute for South Asia Studies

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