The College will host a panel discussion entitled Promoting Human Rights Internationally: How It’s Done on how individuals in the Peace Corps, non-governmental organizations and at the U.S. Department of State work to promote human rights worldwide.
The event will be held at 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23 in the Carondelet Symposium of Thelma P. Lally School of Education. Admission is free and open to the public.
On the panel are Stephen Eisenbraun, editor-in-chief of the State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices; Josh Machleder, Internews vice president for Europe and Eurasia Programs and the Global Human Rights project; Dr. Michael Brannigan, the George and Jane Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Values at Saint Rose; and Colleen Flynn Thapalia, director of international recruitment and admissions at Saint Rose, who has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burundi and United Nations volunteer in Nepal.
Psychology professor Dr. Kathleen Crowley will moderate the discussion. She recently was involved in a two year American Association for the Advancement of Science fellowship at the State Department and has served as a foreign affairs officer for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, where she worked on promoting human rights in South and Central Asia.
