On the heels of the 2015 Freedom from Slavery Forum, this lunchtime discussion will focus on lessons learned for both the local and global anti-trafficking movement.
Middleberg oversees Free the Slaves’ diverse anti-trafficking initiatives abroad as well as U.S.-based advocacy and policy work. He has worked in 50 countries with the likes of CARE and USAID.
Jolluck works on the topics of women and war, women in communist societies, nationalism, and human trafficking. She is active with several Bay Area-based anti-trafficking initiatives.
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Encina Hall East
Room 409
Katherine Jolluck
Senior Lecturer, History; Affiliate
Europe Research Center; Freeman Spogli Institute
Maurice Middleberg
Executive Director
Free the Slaves
In July, the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) welcomed a group of 23 democracy leaders from around the developing world for a three-week training program on democracy, good governance and rule of law reform as part of the 11th annual Draper Hills Summer Fellows Program.
Selected from over 500 applicants, the fellows have diverse backgrounds across sectors and geographies, working in civil society, public service, social enterprise and technology to improve democracy and governance in their home countries.
Fellows were instructed by an all-star roster of Stanford scholars and policy experts with backgrounds in international relations, law, medicine and political science. Lecturers included Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California Tino Cuéllar; former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; FSI Director and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul; and CDDRL Director Francis Fukuyama.
Fellows also visited several major Bay Area technology firms and philanthropic organizations, such as Twitter and the Omidyar Network, to explore new opportunities to support their work.
New to the program this year was the incorporation of TED-style talks, which served as a platform for fellows to practice the technique of storytelling by sharing their personal stories and motivations for pursuing the work they do. Throughout the three-week program, these 9-minute talks provided fellows with a better understanding of their peers’ backgrounds and an opportunity to realize shared experiences.
From finding long-term solutions to refugee crises to the invention of new technologies that curb government corruption, fellows shared impactful stories that cut across sectors and regions, sharing common challenges and pathways to their success. You can find some of their talks below:
Karina Sarmiento (Ecuador)
Regional Director, Asylum Access Latin America
"Building up a Movement: Refugees in Latin America"
Karina Sarmiento is the regional director for Asylum Access Latin America, an international organization working to support refugee rights. Sarmiento leads the organization’s growth and implementation strategy for refugee legal aid clinics, strategic litigation, community legal empowerment and national policy advocacy across Latin America.
Teddy Warria (Kenya)
CEO, Africa 2.0 Kenya
"Connecting Africa"
Teddy Warria is a Kenyan entrepreneur and the CEO of Africa 2.0 Kenya, an action-oriented network of young and emerging leaders from Africa who share a collective vision for the future. Warria is also the director of Africa’s Talking LED, a mobile telecommunications company working to close the information poverty gap in Kenya.
Silvina Rivarola (Argentina)
Criminal Prosecutor, Office of the Attorney General, City of Buenos Aires
"Can Liberal Democracy Exist Without an Independent Justice?"
Silvina Rivarola is a criminal prosecutor with the Attorney General’s office for the City of Buenos Aires where she is in charge of the cybercrime unit. Rivarola has devoted her 25-year career to advancing the rule of law in Argentina’s judicial branch where she previously served as a criminal judge.
Sergii Golubok (Russia)
Human Rights Lawyer
"International Human Rights Courts: What do they mean for Rule of Law?"
Sergei Golubok is a human rights lawyer in Russia who specializes in international human rights law and the protection of constitutional freedoms. Golubok has defended several high profile civil society groups and activists before the United Nations treaty bodies and the European Court of Human Rights.
Oludotun Babayemi (Nigeria)
Co-Founder, Connected Development (CODE)
"Making the State Accountable: Technologies and its Inertia in Nigeria"
Oludotun Babayemi is the co-founder of Connected Development [CODE], an organization that uses online and offline tools to put pressure on governments and organizations in Nigeria to be more accountable and transparent. Their “Follow the Money” campaign has helped to monitor and track public resource allocation so marginalized communities receive government provisions and services.
Catherine Phiri (Zambia)
Public Prosecutor, Government of Zambia
"The Place of Witness in the Criminal Justice System in Zambia"
Catherine Phiri is a public prosecutor for the government of Zambia where she prosecutes cases of corrupt practices, abuse of authority and money laundering that undermine the rule of law. Through her work she has helped implement systems that enhance the efficient and effective flow of cases.
Myat Ko (Burma)
Co-Founder, Yangon School of Political Science
"Transition and Survival of Democracy in Burma"
Myat Ko is the co-founder of the Yangon School of Political Science where he directs the school’s political education department working to train and empower citizens with knowledge to support Burma’s political development. In 2012, he participated in an election observation process held under the Yangon School.
Roukaya Kasenally (Mauritius)
Senior Advisor, African Media Initiative
"Mauritius: The Dwindling Democratic Star"
Kasenally is a senior advisor with the African Media Initiative, an organization supporting independent media on the African continent. Kasenally has served as a researcher for a number of pan-African democratic and governance institutions and co-founded an advocacy organization to engage the Mauritian public in democratic development. Kasenally also teaches at the University of Mauritius.
Bruno Defelippe (Paraguay)
Co-Founder and CEO, Koga Social Business Lab
"How Changing Businesses Can Change the World"
Bruno Defelippe is a social entrepreneur who has launched several social initiatives to engage young people to solve social and environmental challenges in Paraguay. He is the co-founder and CEO of Koga Social Business Lab, which incubates social businesses and provides a strong ecosystem for social entrepreneurs to thrive.
The Program on Human Rights (PHR) at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) will be phasing out its program this year with the retirement of PHR’s Director Helen Stacy. Our human rights programming will transition to the WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice, which is part of the Stanford Global Studies division and a new addition to the human rights ecosystem at Stanford. Dedicated to promoting the rule of law, accountability, and human rights around the world, the Handa Center focuses resources on supporting undergraduate human rights education, research, and fellowship opportunities. The Handa Center looks forward to continuing the advising services, course offerings, research opportunities, speakers series, and student fellowships that PHR was able to contribute to the Stanford community since its launch in 2009.
Concurrent with this transition, CDDRL, the Handa Center, the Haas Center for Public Service, and the Vice Provost Office for Undergraduate Education are supporting a new position for a Director of Community Engaged Learning (DCEL) for Human Rights at Stanford. The DCEL will support a sustained and growing interest in human rights education at Stanford by working across campus with faculty members and student organizations - as well as within the local community - to enhance community-engaged learning opportunities at Stanford.
CDDRL looks forward to welcoming the new DCEL to Stanford in the coming academic year, and sees this as a way to further the contributions and impact that PHR made to the Stanford community over the past six years.
While CDDRL will no longer have a dedicated program on human rights, this topic will continue to be a relevant – and timely – theme in our research agenda, event series, and practitioner-based programming. We look forward to hosting fellows working in this field, hosting special speakers highlighting important innovations in the field of human rights, and supporting student research on this topic, among other initiatives.
Thank you again for your interest, involvement, and commitment to the Program on Human Rights. We are proud of what we have accomplished and look forward to working with the Handa Center as the focal point for student and public engagement with human rights teaching and research on campus.
We invite interested students, campus partners, and community members to explore the resources below in order to stay abreast of human rights-related news on campus.
Based on first-hand participant-observation, this talk will examine the culture, politics, and spatiality of the Sunflower Movement. Taiwan's most significant social movement in decades, the Sunflower Movement not only blocked the passage of a major trade deal with China, but reshaped popular discourse and redirected Taiwan's political and cultural trajectory. It re-energized student and civil society, precipitated the historic defeat of the KMT in the 2014 local elections, and prefigured the DPP's strong position coming into the 2016 presidential and legislative election season.
The primary spatial tactic of the Sunflowers-- occupation of a government building-- was so successful that a series of protests in the summer of 2015 by high school students was partly conceived and represented as a "second Sunflower Movement". These students, protesting "China-centric" curriculum changes, attempted to occupy the Ministry of Education building. Thwarted by police, these students settled for the front courtyard, where a Sunflower-style pattern of encampments and performances emerged. While this movement did not galvanize the wider public as dramatically as its predecessor, it did demonstrate the staying power of the Sunflower Movement and its occupation tactics for an even younger cohort of activists.
The Sunflower Movement showed that contingent, street-level, grassroots action can have a major impact on Taiwan's cross-Strait policies, and inspired and trained a new generation of youth activists. But with the likely 2016 presidential win of the DPP, which has attempted to draw support from student activists while presenting a less radical vision to mainstream voters, what's in store for the future of Taiwanese student and civic activism? And with strong evidence of growing Taiwanese national identification and pro-independence sentiment, particularly among youth, what's in store for the future of Taiwan's political culture?
Speaker Bio
Ian Rowen in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan during the Sunflower Student Movement protest.
Ian Rowen is PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and recent Visiting Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, Academia Sinica’s Institute of Sociology, and Fudan University. He participated in both the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements and has written about them for The Journal of Asian Studies, The Guardian, and The BBC (Chinese), among other outlets. He has also published about Asian politics and protest in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (forthcoming) and the Annals of Tourism Research. His PhD research, funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, has focused on the political geography of tourism and protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Amr Hamzawy is the director of the Carnegie Middle East Program. He studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin. He was previously an associate professor of political science at Cairo University and a professor of public policy at the American University in Cairo.
His research and teaching interests as well as his academic publications focus on democratization processes in Egypt, tensions between freedom and repression in the Egyptian public space, political movements and civil society in Egypt, contemporary debates in Arab political thought, and human rights and governance in the Arab world. His new book On The Habits of Neoauthoritarianism – Politics in Egypt Between 2013 and 2019 appeared in Arabic in September 2019.
Hamzawy is a former member of the People’s Assembly after being elected in the first Parliamentary elections in Egypt after the January 25, 2011 revolution. He is also a former member of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights. Hamzawy contributes a weekly op-ed to the Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi.
Ian Rowen in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan during the Sunflower Student Movement protest.
