Q&A Lunch Talk: Youth, Protest and Power – Emerging Global Narratives in Human Rights Advocacy, with Irũngũ Houghton, Amnesty Kenya

Youth led mass protests are significantly challenging state legitimacy in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Kenya. Driven by deep economic distress, hopelessness and impunity, these nations lurch between constitutionalism, authoritarianism and anarchy with consequences for billions of people. What new human rights narratives and forms of organizing are emerging from these Gen Z social movements, human rights organizations and governments? Join Amnesty International Kenya’s Executive Director Irũngũ Houghton in exploring how current events are reshaping the right to expression, assembly and association globally. Moderated by Prof. Laurel Fletcher. 

Mr. Houghton’s draft paper on the theme is available here (for those attending the lunch talk – not for quotation or circulation).

Irũngũ Houghton has advised and held national governments, international and continental multi-lateral processes publicly accountable for the last thirty years. He currently serves as Amnesty International Kenya Section Director. As Amnesty’s spokesperson and chief strategist in Kenya, he leads a team of committed investigative researchers and campaigners working to end human rights abuses and realize the Constitution of Kenya.

Sponsored by: Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law
Cosponsors: Berkeley Center for Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination, Center for African Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Human Rights Center, Human Rights Clinic, International Human Rights Workshop, International Law Society, and Law Students of African Descent

For information or accommodations, contact tmendicino@law.berkeley.edu or 510-643-7969. Lunch offered for those attending. Please RSVP at scan code or here: https://forms.gle/nKVrnT5Ana61EvaN9