A panel in Edmunds Ballroom on February 17th consisting of Mark Hanis, director of the Genocide Intervention Network, Jeannette Ndhlovu, South African Consul-General, and Michael Bazyler, a prominent Holocaust and human rights scholar, discussed humanitarian crises in nations from Sudan to Zimbabwe to Burma and the future of human rights in a globalized world. Mark Hanis described in detail the growing influence of non-state actors–from NGO’s to individual activists–in promoting human rights in the U.S., and Michael Bazyler criticized the international community, from China to South Africa, for failing to intervene in crises in nations such as Zimbabwe. For her part, Jeannette Ndhlovu discussed her personal experiences in representing South Africa at the UN and the “culture of impunity” surrounding human rights abuses by powerful nations such as China and the U.S. Five questions were posed to the panel, followed by a audience questions.
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