Suspicious of foreign intervention and protective of power, governments have begun cracking down on foreign funding to civil society organizations, cutting off support for critical human rights groups in Russia, China, India, and beyond. This session will examine the closing space for civil society in different regional contexts, and highlight organizations adapting to this new normal with innovative approaches to survive—and even thrive. We’ll ask how social advocacy groups in countries with emergent fault lines can learn from their global peers.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Thursday, April 6, 2017 BSTLocation:
Lecture Theatre 4
Speakers
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SpeakerDirector of European Office, Sigrid Rausing TrustPoonam Joshi is the Executive Director of the Trust. She has over 20 years' experience of working on a range of human rights issues. Prior to joining the Trust, Poonam was the Director of the European Office for Trust grantee the Fund for Global Human Rights, where she was also responsible for work…
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ModeratorDirector of Human Rights Initiatives, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva UniversityEd is director of human rights initiatives and visiting professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he oversees the overall growth of Cardozo’s human rights program, including the development of an initiative — Human Rights Forward — to create new solutions for combating…
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SpeakerPrincipal Lecturer, University of Hong KongDavid Bishop is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and Fudan University, Shanghai. He has broad legal experience in the United States and across Asia, particularly China. Mr. Bishop's teaching focuses on a wide range of legal, ethics, and social enterprise related matters. His Social…
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SpeakerFounder and CEO, International Bridges to JusticeAn international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and former San Francisco public defender, Karen moved to Cambodia in 1994 to train the country’s first core group of public defenders and subsequently served as a United Nations Judicial Mentor. Karen formed IBJ in 2000 after witnessing…