At a moment when the post-World War II international order is changing with uncertain outcome, the future of the international human rights project is in doubt as well. Consensus on a few common principles that nearly every nation once pledged to meet is declining. Yet gross violations of human rights—torture, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, and crackdowns on freedoms of speech and religion—have reached new highs in many parts of the world. The lecture will trace the course of the international human rights project from its origins to its impressive achievements of the late 20th century, to the current erosion of support, concluding with some thoughts about how it might be reinvigorated.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐧 𝐆𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, a leading authority in the field of human rights, is the Learned Hand Professor of Law emerita at Harvard University, and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. In 1995, she led the Vatican delegation to Beijing for the UN’s World Conference on Women, becoming the first woman ever to lead a Vatican delegation.
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐨 is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.
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