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Webinar Event Recording | Tuesday, January 26, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM (Eastern US)

Human Rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been called the “Nelson Mandela of Iran.” A champion of women’s and children’s rights in particular whose advocacy was celebrated with the 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Prize for Global Human Rights Advancement, she has inspired human rights advocates around the world for her brave defense of human dignity. Today she endures a sentence of nearly 40 years’ imprisonment and 148 lashes for her work. This esteemed panel discussed that work, its impact in Iran and beyond, and the state of human rights advocacy in the 21st century. (A brief excerpt of Sotoudeh’s Eleanor Roosevelt Prize ceremony is shown.)

Speakers

ABA President Patricia Lee Refo, moderating

Baroness Helena Kennedy, Director, International Bar Association Human Rights Institute

Agnès Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Director, Columbia University's Global Freedom of Expression Project

Robin Wright, Writer for The New Yorker, National Magazine Award winner, and former diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post

Amir Soltani, author of Zahra’s Paradise and human rights activist/former board member, working with PEN America on Nasrin’s case

Jeff Kaufman, Director, writer, producer, NASRIN documentary

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