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.
attend our upcoming events
2024 Moth Course
May 6-10, 2023 | Quito, Ecuador
The second installment of the Global Program will take place from May 6 – May 10, 2024 in Quito, Ecuador, as a collaboration between the NYU MOTH Project and the Andina University Símon Bolívar.
With classes and immersive learning modules taught by world-renowned experts in rights of nature law and jurisprudence, multispecies justice philosophy, ecology, Indigenous storytelling, and more, students will walk away with a firm understanding of the rights of nature / more than human rights field. The course modules will include the conceptual, theoretical, and practical foundations of the MOTH rights field.
explore past events
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FORGE 2023 playlist
The Center convened its first annual Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE) Conference. This global gathering of scholars, practitioners, artists, scientists, lawyers, policy makers, among others, differed from panel-based conventional conferences by creating spaces to actively share ideas and develop experiments for change that could transform the fields of global rights and justice.
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Transformer States playlist
The Center’s “Transformer States” series explores the digital transformation of the State and its impacts on the lives and rights of individuals, through in-depth interviews with practitioners and academics working on digital government and through blog posts by practitioners and scholars.
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CLX Series
The Climate Law Accelerator (CLX) is a global collaborative hub for research, advocacy, and strategic litigation on the climate emergency. Working with scholars, activists, and litigants from around the world, CLX initiates and supports efforts that build the speed and scale necessary to spur action on the climate emergency within the limited timeframe left to avoid triggering extreme scenarios of global warming.
Emilio Mignone series on transitional justice.
In partnership with the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Center hosts this series providing 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.
- President Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
2019: The Future of the Past: Reflections on the Current State and Prospects of Transitional Justice
- Pablo de Greiff, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence
- Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Darren Walker, Ford Foundation
- Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Judge Thomas Buergenthal, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Hossam Bahgat, prominent activist in the Egyptian revolution
- Helen Clark, UN Development Programme
- Hon. Richard Goldstone, Constitutional Court of South Africa
- Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
- Aryeh Neier, Open Society Institute
- Cristina Fernandes de Kirchner, Senator, and subsequently President of Argentina
- Judge Baltasar Garzón, Investigating Magistrate of Spain
- Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- José Zalaquett, former deputy Secretary-General of Amnesty International
