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Constitutionalism and Diversity: Sexual Orientation in South Africa (full talk)
South African Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron will speak about his country’s post-apartheid efforts to guarantee rights for gay, lesbian, trans-gendered and queer citizens, referring to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow Nation: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Activism in South Africa,” a 2008 article by Ryan Richard Thoreson published in the Journal of South African Studies. Cameron has served on the Constitutional Court, South Africa’s highest on constitutional matters, since January 1, 2009. He was also a Supreme Court of Appeal judge, a leading human rights lawyer, a prominent critic of former President Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS-denialist policies, and author of Witness to AIDS. In 2002, the Bar of England and Wales gave Cameron a special award for his ‘contribution to international jurisprudence and the protection of human rights.’Published 1 year ago
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dorothy Q. Thomas will speak about recovering a legacy of progressive Americanism for contemporary women’s rights activists, drawing on her on-going research for a book that chronicles the lives of some of her female ancestors, including descendants of former presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and mother of the American Revolution Dorothy Quincy Hancock. Thomas is currently a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She was previously a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and was founding director for the Human Rights Watch Women’s Division.The lecture is cosponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center, the Archive for Human Rights, Women’s Studies, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, the Program in the Study of Sexualities, and the Franklin Humanities Institute. Generous support was also provided by the Trent Foundation.
Published 2 years ago
Weaving a Net of Accountability- The Moral Dimension of Extraordinary Rendition
John Hope Franklin CenterPublished 3 years ago
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