Are human rights movements able to rise to the challenge of the urgent issues of our time, from authoritarianism and right-wing populism to economic inequality, impunity for mass atrocities, and the climate crisis? What have human rights norms and strategies accomplished? Should traditional fact-finding and name-and-shame strategies be defended, or transformed? And what can the language and tools of human rights offer us now, at this incredibly difficult moment, around the world and here in the United States?

On the launch of Righting Wrongs, a sweeping new book by Kenneth Roth about his three decades at the helm of Human Rights Watch, join us to debate the past, future, and meanings of human rights. Sheila Coronel, director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, will moderate, with introductory remarks by Sarah Knuckey, co-director of the Human Rights Institute.

This event is co-sponsored by the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, the Human Rights Institute, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

Registration required. Refreshments will be provided. 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET.