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Nilakshi Parndigamage promoted to Vice Provost at Yale
Nilakshi Parndigamage has been promoted to vice provost for strategic initiatives at Yale.
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How Will The Coronavirus Reshape Democracy and Governance Globally?
Senior Fellow Saskia Brechenmacher writes about the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on democracy and governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19 - Front and Centre
In tandem with Opinion Juris' online COVID-19 Symposium, Senior Fellow Kate Powers writes of the need now more than ever to center human rights in global health justice responses to the pandemic.
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Governments Around the World Are Using COVID-19 as a Pretext to Crack Down on Human Rights
Senior Fellow Mark Goldberg speaks with Philippe Bolopion, deputy director for advocacy at Human Rights Watch, and examines how the pandemic is impacting human rights around the world.
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As Unemployment Soars, Eviction Questions Loom for Thousands of Coloradoans
As the world continues to grapple with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities are at risk of losing housing. Senior Fellow Zachary Neumann is quoted in this article alongside the work of his project, the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project.
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Studying the Past to Build the Future
Senior Fellow Susannah Shattuck, a MBA/MPP candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Business speaks on how entrepreneurial disrupters need to take the right lessons from the past to understand the impact innovations will have on human behavior.
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Upskilling Workers for the Future of Work
Senior Fellow Clara Chow, in cooperation with SkillNav, a social impact tech startup based in Lagos, Nigeria led a session on skills for the Future of Work at the now virtual Skoll World Forum.
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What Political Science Can Teach Us About How Different Countries Are Handling COVID-19
In this episode, Senior Fellow Mark Goldberg speaks with Sofia Fenner, an assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, about what comparative politics and political science can teach us about how governments are responding to this crisis.
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Webinar: Unsettling Human Rights
The second webinar in the Rights and Resistance: the Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty series. On Wednesday, April 1 at 12pm, Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren will give an overview of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as a continuation of indigenous resistance and as a challenge to individualistic notions of Human Rights.