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Justice Matters investigates global human rights issues, from the ethics of AI to the sources of systemic discrimination.
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Human Rights Day 2025: Rethinking Rights for a New Era
On today’s episode, we’re marking Human Rights Day, observed every year on December 10th to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly in 1948. To mark the occasion Co-host Mathias Risse speaks with four of our Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Fellows to share their perspectives on why human rights still matter and why they may be more important now than at any point in the 77 years since the Declaration was adopted.
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Investigating matters of human rights at home and abroad, exploring topics like abortion bans, the UN Business & Human Rights Forum, and the civil rights movement. Listen to all the episodes of Justice Matters, hosted by Maggie Gates, Mathias Risse, and Aminta Ossom.
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Maggie Gates
Executive Director, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Policy
Mathias Risse
Faculty Director, Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights Policy
Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy
Aminta Ossom
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Clinical Instructor, International Human Rights Clinic
Diego Garcia Blum
Program Director, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights