Steven Watt, Senior Staff Attorney of the Human Rights Program at the American Civil Liberties Union, delivers a lecture titled "Law and Legal Challenges in Addressing Psychologists in the CIA Torture Program." The lecture focuses on the recent ACLU lawsuit Salim v. Mitchell filed against psychologists whose role in designing and overseeing aspects of the post-September 11 detention and interrogation program was recently detailed in The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program (2014).

Visiting scholar Moritz Baumgärtel, a PhD candidate from the Université libre de Bruxelles, gives a lecture titled "Europe's Refugee Crisis and the Rights of Migrants: What Role for Europe's Supranational Courts?" With large numbers of asylum seekers arriving in Europe, to what extent have the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice been used to strengthen the precarious rights of asylum seekers and refugees? Baumgärtel's research focuses on the intersection of migrant rights and human rights in litigation before these European supranational courts.

Klara Skrivankova, head of the Europe Programme and Advocacy Coordinator at Anti-Slavery International, discusses "Trafficking and the European Refugee/Migration Crisis." This event focused on the risks of trafficking in connection with the ongoing European refugee/migration crisis. The event coincided with the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (December 2).

Lenni Benson, Executive Director of the Safe Passage Project in New York delivers a talk titled "Unaccompanied Minors from Central America and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status." In 2014, nearly 70,000 children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador arrived in the United States, with many teenagers fleeing gang violence. The event focuses on the response of the U.S. immigration system to this crisis, and exposes students to human rights work and issues in a domestic context.

Juan Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, and a Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence at the American University Washington College of Law, gives a talk followed by a Q&A. This lecture is co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Clinic, the Center for International and Comparative Law, the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Library, and the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Jeremy Heimans, co-founder of Purpose and All Out, gives a talk titled "Unlocking People Power: Human Rights and Movement-Building in the 21st Century." This lecture was co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International & Comparative Law.

Recorded on April 7, 2014.

Jayne Huckerby, associate clinical professor of law and inaugural director of the Duke International Human Rights Clinic, moderates a panel featuring: Joy Ezeilo, UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children; Alison Kiehl Friedman, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (to be confirmed); and Lindsey Roberson, Assistant District Attorney at Office of the District Attorney New Hanover County.

Anne Gallagher, Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), gives a talk titled "From Peacekeepers to Slave Traders: A Lawyer's Journey to the United Nations and Beyond." This lecture was co-sponsored by the Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International & Comparative Law.