October 22, 2025
Human Rights Defenders and Accountability in a Changing World
10.22.2025 | 5:00 PM | UC Berkeley
with Binaifer Nowrojee, President, Open Society Foundations
In conversation with
- Angana P. Chatterji, Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender; and Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley
- Munis D. Faruqui, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies and Associate Professor, Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies; and Director, Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
- Laurel E. Fletcher, Chancellor's Clinical Professor of Law; Co-Faculty Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law; and Director, Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law
- Alexa Koenig, Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center; Director, HRC’s Investigations Program; and Research Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
- Sharan Srinivas, Director, Protecting Rights Defenders, Open Society Foundations
- Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law; and Director, Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
Welcome and Introductions by Lok Siu, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley.
Event hosted by the Center for Race & Gender, the Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, the Hon. G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, the Institute for South Asia Studies, the Human Rights Center, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
Event hosted by the Center for Race & Gender, the Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, the Hon. G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, the Institute for South Asia Studies, the Human Rights Center, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.