This seminar already happened, but you can listen to an audio recording of it below!
Join us on Human Rights Day, December 10th, at 12pm for an online seminar with Kairos Co-Director Larry Cox. The seminar, “A New and Unsettling Force for Human Rights,” will draw on Larry’s decades of work in organizations and movements fighting for human rights. He’ll give his analysis of the rise and recent decline of “human rights” as a framework for understanding and confronting our most pressing social problems, and show that the way forward to revive the spirit and strength of the human rights movement is to root itself once again in mass movements for survival that are coming into being all around the country and the world. You can read the text of a speech that Larry recently gave on similar themes here.
The seminar will also focus on the powerful relationship between human rights and the world’s religions, and a vision for the role that both have to play in building the unity and leadership of the poor around the world today. You can read Larry’s article on that topic, “Human rights and religion need each other,” in our recent publication, The Spirit of Struggle, available for free here.
Larry Cox is Co-Director of Kairos: The Center on Religions, Rights and Social Justice. He served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA from 2006 to 2011. Over the years, Larry established the AIUSA Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, served as Communication Director, and Deputy Executive Director. He was then appointed Deputy Secretary General at Amnesty International’s world headquarters in London. In 1990 Larry became the Executive Director of the Rainforest Foundation, an international organization working with indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon to protect their rights and environment. In 1995 he began an 11-year term as Senior Program Officer for Human Rights at the Ford Foundation. He initiated new programs on international justice, economic, social and cultural rights, and human rights in the United States. In focusing on human rights in the United States Larry came full circle to work he did in his early years to advance peace and social justice: Active in the anti-Vietnam war movement, he did organizing against the war as a GI at Ft. Campbell, KY in 1970-71.
Below is an audio recording from the seminar:
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