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Human Rights and Repression: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
March 5, 2019
Stanford's Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab is hosting a two day conference that seeks to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of human rights violations in both dictatorships...
Educational and Entrepreneurial Initiatives to Support Youth in Places of Violence
April 28, 2015
CONFERENCE OVERVIEWThe heavy presence of youth and young adults in the world of criminality is an issue that has been gaining increasingly more attention in the agendas of policymakers and...
The Digital Defenders of Children
February 5, 2015
AbstractThorn (www.wearethorn.org) drives technology innovation to fight child sexual exploitation.
<i>The Act of Killing (Director's Cut)</i> Film Screening and Panel Discussion
February 25, 2014
*This event is free and open to the public.* PANELISTS Don Emmerson - Director of the Southeast Asia Forum, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Affiliated Scholar, Abbasi Program in Islamic...
The Current Conflict in South Sudan: A Conversation with John Prendergast
January 30, 2014
Speaker Bio: John Prendergast is Co-founder of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity.
Mass Surveillance in America
December 6, 2013
AbstractThe American government is at a crossroads in its relationship with the people it governs.
Preventing Genocide: Do We Have the Responsibility to Protect?
October 2, 2013
This event is being presented in partnership with CDDRL, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Hoover Institution, and a student led movement to end atrocities at Stanford (STAND).
Crime, Violence and Governance in Latin America: Sharing Data and Building a Web-Based Research Network to Expand Knowledge
June 7, 2013
Despite some interesting research on crime and violence in Latin American countries (particularly Colombia), there is still a relative dearth of policy-oriented research.
Building Cities In the Desert: A Way Out of Internment Camps for Refugees?
May 6, 2013
Bio: Emily Arnold-Fernández is the executive director of Asylum Access, an innovative international nonprofit that transforms the human rights landscape for refugees in Africa, Asia and Latin...
Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: a Regional Challenge
March 11, 2013
Following the highly successful conference "Violence, Drugs and Governance: Mexican Security in Comparative Perspective", the Program on Poverty and Governance is partnering with the Instituto...
ICC Speaker Series- Shamila Batohi
February 27, 2013
The Program on Human Rights will host the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Speaker Series, a weekly series featuring presentations by leading scholars, activists and experts on the...
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
January 25, 2013
Abstract He will preview some of the main arguments about the temptations of "solutionism" from his upcoming book "To Save Everything, Click Here." Now that everything is smart, hackable and...
One Decade of the International Criminal Court: challenges and possibilities
December 7, 2012
During the academic year of 2012-2013, the Program on Human Rights’ Sanela Diana Jenkins International Human Rights Series will examine the International Criminal Court (ICC) featuring debates with...
Education Under Fire event
April 7, 2012
Please join the Stanford Baha'i Club, in collaboration with the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; the Center on Philanthrophy and Civil Society, Stanford Amnesty International,...
Local Law Enforcement Human Trafficking Task Forces
February 29, 2012
The 2011-12 International Speaker Series will foster a research approach that applies a broad socio-economic and interdisciplinary analysis to a range of forms of human trafficking.
The Context of Human Trafficking Today
February 15, 2012
The 2012 International Speaker Series will foster a research approach that applies a broad socio-economic and interdisciplinary analysis to a range of forms of human trafficking.
Human Trafficking: The Current Anti-trafficking Model and Networks of Service
February 8, 2012
The 2011-12 International Speaker Series will foster a research approach that applies a broad socio-economic and interdisciplinary analysis to a range of forms of human trafficking.
Combating Cyber Insecurity Around the Globe
February 3, 2012
Christopher Painter has been on the vanguard of cyber issues for twenty years. Most recently, Mr.
Human trafficking in times of war: Lessons learned in Bosnia
January 25, 2012
The 2011-12 International Speaker Series will foster a research approach that applies a broad socio-economic and interdisciplinary analysis to a range of forms of human trafficking.
Combating Human Trafficking: The Role of Governments, Philanthropic Institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations
January 18, 2012
The 2011-12 International Speaker Series will foster a research approach that applies a broad socio-economic and interdisciplinary analysis to a range of forms of human trafficking.
Program on Human Rights Sanela Diana Jenkins Speaker Series, Human Trafficking Fall Workshop
December 12, 2011
Human trafficking will be the theme of the PHR's Selena Diana Jenkins Speakers Series this academic year.
2011 Payne Distinguished Lecture: Improving Governance and Combating Drugs
October 4, 2011
On October 3, Karl Eikenberry, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, will deliver this year's inaugural Payne Distinguished Lecture at Cemex Auditorium at the Knight Management Center.
Violence, Drugs and Governance: Mexican Security in Comparative Perspective
October 3, 2011
On October 3-4, 2011, the Stanford University Program on Poverty and Governance at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and the Center for International Security and...
$100 a Day Justice Delayed Film Screening and Panel
April 22, 2010
On December 10, 1991, East Palo Alto resident Rick Walker was convicted of a murder he did not commit.
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