THE END OF HUMAN RIGHTS
What happens when the institutions designed to protect human dignity come under strain? In the frontline human rights battles from the US to Ukraine to Gaza to Sudan to China and beyond, the future of freedom may depend less on superpowers and more on whether democracies and civil society can reinvent the fight for rights before it is too late.
This session is presented in partnership with Human Rights Watch.
Philippe Bolopion [FRA/USA]
Philippe Bolopion is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. He was formerly the United Nations Director of Human Rights Watch and has held several leadership positions. Bolopion has extensive experience in designing and implementing Human Rights Watch’s advocacy strategies worldwide and in overseeing the organisation’s advocacy response to crises. He has traveled extensively to conflict zones, including in Myanmar, Burundi, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Mali. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2010, he spent five years working with the French daily Le Monde as the UN correspondent in New York. He has also worked as a journalist for France 24 and Radio France Internationale (RFI).
Daniela Gavshon
Daniela Gavshon is the Australia director at Human Rights Watch, leading the organisation’s engagement with the Australian government on foreign and domestic policy. Prior to this, she spent ten years at the Justice and Equity Centre (formerly Public Interest Advocacy Centre), where she founded the Truth and Accountability program, led human rights and war crimes investigations, and led a landmark project mapping laws and policies affecting First Nations people in Australia. She also serves as an adjunct lecturer at the University of New South Wales, is the co-chair of the War Crimes Committee of the International Bar Association, and holds degrees in law and arts from the University of Sydney, and a master’s in international humanitarian law from the Geneva Academy.
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