A monthly audio series and podcast service, hosted by Committee on Conscience Project Director Bridget Conley-Zilkic, that brings you the voices of human rights defenders, experts, advocates, and government officials. Vital voices addressing one of humanity's most vital issues. The opinions expressed in these interviews do not necessarily represent those of the Museum.
In August, Rwanda votes in presidential elections. Leslie Haskell, Rwanda Researcher for Human Rights Watch, discusses the state of justice, politics, and media in the post-genocide nation.
Beba Hadzic, from Srebrenica, describes how she lead women survivors from the 1992 – 1995 Bosnian war to create Bosfam, a knitting collective that functions to generate income, provide support, and seek answers to the questions that remain central to survivors’ struggles.
National elections concluded, how will Sudan face the possibility of an independent South? USIP’s Jon Temin analyzes the prospects.
Diane Orentlicher, deputy in the Office of War Crimes Issues in the Department of State, discusses how the Obama Administration is re-engaging with the International Criminal Court.
Cary Alan Johnson, executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, addresses a proposed law in Uganda that would allow use of the death penalty for same-sex consensual relations.
New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof discusses the strategy and inspiration behind his writing on human rights crises.
Writer Mark Danner reflects on what we can learn from the genocides of the late 1990s.
Jimmy Mulla discusses his work uniting people from all regions of Sudan who now live in the United States into a voice for peace.
Taylor Krauss discusses the oral history project with Rwandan genocide survivors that he leads, Voices of Rwanda.
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