"Fighting for Immigrant and Labor Rights" - Discussion with Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and Unite Here

“Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy” - Documentary film screening & Discussion

"Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me and The World" - Performance by Gina Athena Ulysse

"Presence Without Empowerment? Gender Quotas, Reproductive Rights, and Violence Against Women in Latin America" - Mala Htun, Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research

“After the Vote: Challenges and Opportunities for a Two-State Sudan” - Rebecca Hamilton, author of “Fighting for Darfur”

“Living Juárez: Collateral Damage in Mexico’s Drug War” - Film screening and discussion with Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy

“Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples in the New Millennium” - Lecture series by Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Richard and Ann Pozen Visiting Professor in Human Rights, University of Chicago, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2000 - 2008), and Professor Emeritus in Sociology, El Colegio de México

Wednesday, April 6: “Are universal human rights for everybody? The Nation-State and the Vanishing Indians” Wednesday, April 13: “Anti-Colonialism and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights” Wednesday, April 20: “The Confessions of a Special Rapporteur: the United Nations and the Search for Justice”

"Inside the Hidden City: Photographs from Ciudad Oculta" - Exhibit and closing lecture

May 6th: Closing Lecture and Reception with Jasmine Heiss, Former Human Rights Intern (AB ‘10), Fundación ph15; Mariela Szwarcberg, Postdoctoral Lecturer, Center for Latin American Studies

"The Die is Caste" – Film screening and discussion with director Ranjan Kamath

“A Film Unfinished” - Film Screening and Special Events with Director Yael Hersonski

APRIL 28: Free Film Screening Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E. 59th St. 7:00 pm APRIL 29: Workshop featuring Director Yael Hersonski Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, Rm. 310, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. 10:30 am APRIL 30: The Silence of the Archive: Roundtable Discussion on "A Film Unfinished" Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, Rm. 307, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. 8:00 pm

“The Arab Democratic Revolutions” - Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, History, Columbia University

"Corporate Social Responsibility: A New Business Framework for Human Rights" Symposium

“Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today” - Film Preview and Q&A with Sandra Schulberg, Film Restoration Producer, and Susanne Lüdemann, Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago

"The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence" - Susie Linfield, Journalist and Professor, Director of Cultural Reporting and Criticism at New York University

"Understanding Human Rights" Seminar

"Budrus" - Film Screening at Doc Films

International House Global Voices Author Night Series, "Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy" - Susan N. Herman, President, American Civil Liberties Union

Convening of Chicago Student Human Rights Network

"Human Rights - From Syria to Chicago" - Public Action and Panel Discussion

Panelists: Susan Gzesh, HRP; Debra Erenberg, Amnesty International; Noura Almasri and Alaa Basatneh, Syrian American Activists; Tio Hardiman, CeaseFire of Illinois

"Impunity and Cycles of Violence in Zimbabwe" - Farai Maguwu, Director, Center for Research and Development, Eastern Zimbabwe; Tiseke Kasambala, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch

"The Ongoing Struggle for Land, Justice and Indigenous Rights in Guatemala" - Maria Choc, Indigenous Rights Activist

"Humanitarian Action & Humanitarian Principles in Armed Conflict" - American Red Cross Undergraduate Workshop on International Humanitarian Law

"NALACC National Tour: The Tragedy of Migrants in Transit from Central America-Mexico to the U.S."

Panelists: Father Alejandro Solalinde; Cristian Pineda Flores, artist; Marcela Zamora, filmmaker