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Speakers: Omer Kanat, Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project; Darren Byler, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington; Tahir Imin, Founder of Uigher Times Moderator: Jessica Batke, Senior Editor, ChinaFile.
What professional opportunities are available to human rights students?
What skills, credentials, and experiences are valuable?
What are the benefits and challenges of various types of human rights work?
What professional opportunities are available to human rights students? What skills, credentials, and experiences are valuable? What are the benefits and challenges of various types of human rights work?
Human rights have fallen on hard times--yet rights are needed now more than ever. We stand at a crossroads between expansion and contraction of rights: new voices, spaces, and pathways contrast with declining democracies, deepening citizenship gap, and regression in the international regime.
Sherry Farrell Racette (Algonquin/Metis/Irish) was born in Manitoba and is a member of Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec (unceded Algonquin territory).
