convening to effect change.

The Center supports and hosts a series of events that bring together the human rights community to share, reflect, and explore tools to advance global justice and human rights.

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Fall 2025 Open House

September 19, 2025 | Wilf Hall

The annual Open House marks the start of the academic year and offers students the chance to meet the team, learn more about programs and clinics, and explore upcoming events and initiatives.

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More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) 2025 Festival of Ideas

Unfolding over three days, the MOTH Festival of Ideas will feature leading thinkers and doers working to advance the rights, interests, and well-being of nonhumans, humans, and the web of life that sustains us all. The Festival is organized by the MOTH Program at NYU Law. The afternoons of each day of the Festival will be open to the public, with tickets available for purchase. With creativity and interdisciplinarity at its heart, the Festival will include keynote talks, interviews, film screenings, book launches, poetry readings, concerts, and performances of various kinds.

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Future of Human Rights (FORGE) 2025 Gathering

Two days designed to provide human rights and justice advocates with a platform for dialogue, collaboration and innovation at a time of deep disruption for the field. In this 2025 gathering, FORGE aims to meet the moment by spurring engagement on 25 forward-looking projects that offer responses to current challenges and opportunities in the field. Strategic lenses we will be applying draw from this year’s concept notes including the Politics of Human Rights & Justice, Funding, Data & Technology, and Storytelling & Narrative Strategies.

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Book launch | Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

The MOTH Program hosted writer Robert Macfarlane for a conversation with César Rodríguez-Garavito about his recent and outstanding book Is a River Alive? at NYU Law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young ‘Rights of Nature’ movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an exhilarating exploration of the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.

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Emilio Mignone series on transitional justice.

In partnership with the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Center provides a platform for distinguished speakers to discuss significant developments in the field. This lecture honors Emilio Fermín Mignone, a dedicated human rights advocate and leader.