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Dear Students:

Please find below an invitation to our first public program of the semester on the subject of Hate Speech and Human Rights, happening Thursday, September 28 at 6pm. Please RSVP right away if you are interested, as we anticipate that spaces will quickly fill up.

We hope that you will join us for this timely conversation!

All my best,

Kelsey

Kelsey Adolphs

Program Associate

Human Rights Program

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College

47-49 East 65th Street

New York, NY 10065

Phone: 212.396.7948

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A panel discussion

The Human Rights Program at the

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute

at Hunter College

presents a panel discussion on

Hate Speech and Human Rights

September 28, 2017

6:00 PM

To RSVP, click here

Space limited. First come, first served.

Among liberal democracies, the United States stands alone in its defense of hate speech as integral to upholding the First Amendment and ensuring a free society. Recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia--the site of a white nationalist rally that led to the death of one counter-protestor and injuries to many others--have reignited a debate on whether freedom of speech should be given such broad protections, or whether hate speech in particular must be regulated in order to ensure equality and protect human rights. Please join us for a timely discussion that explores the contours of this debate, and offers insights from the perspective of international human rights law and the experience and approach of other countries that have similarly wrestled with legacies of xenophobia and racial injustice.

Participants include:

Jessie Daniels, Professor of Sociology and Critical Social Psychology, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Gay McDougall, Member, UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination
Lee Rowland, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
Smita Narula (moderator), Distinguished Lecturer and Interim Director of the Human Rights Program, Roosevelt House