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KritayaKritaya Archavanitkul; Thai human rights activist: "Emerging Issues in Human Rights in Southeast Asia," 10/25/96

DellumsRonald V. Dellums; former U.S. Congressional Representative from California, Ninth District: "Legislating for the People," 2/10/00
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EbadiShirin Ebadi; 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: "The Struggle for Human Rights in Iran," 5/10/06
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EizenstatStuart E. Eizenstat; former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and former Undersecretary of Commerce, Undersecretary of State, and Deputy Treasury Secretary: "Politics, Law, and the Search for 'Imperfect Justice'," 4/30/03
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EppelShari Eppel; Human Rights Activist: "Healing Community Trauma: Exhumation and Ritual in Zimbabwe," 4/24/01
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FarerTom Farer; Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; International Lawyer and Policy Analyst: "International Law and Human Rights," 4/19/00; and "Confronting Global Terrorism: The Elements of a Liberal Grand Strategy," 4/16/07
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Gardner Akbar Ganji; Journalist and Human Rights Activist: "Islam and Democracy," 8/10/06
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GoldstoneJustice Richard J. Goldstone; former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: "Law and the Search for Justice," 4/14/97

GourevitchPhilip Gourevitch; staff writer at the New Yorker: "Reporting the Story of a Genocide," 2/11/00
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GradinAnita Gradin; Swedish legislator and diplomat; former European Commissioner: "Securing the Rights of Women," 2/28/01
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GutmanRoy Gutman; Correspondent, Newsday: "Witness to Genocide," 4/10/97

GuzmanJuan Guzmán; Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, Santiago, Chile: "Confronting Chile's History," 4/17/01
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HaglundWilliam Haglund; Forensic Anthropologist and Director of the International Forensice Program of Physicians for Human Rights: "Voices from the Graves," 9/22/00
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HendersonThelton Henderson; U.S. District Judge: "Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement," 4/28/98
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HermanJudith Herman, M.D.; Psychiatrist and author: "Psychological Insight and Political Understanding: The Case of Trauma and Recovery," 9/21/00
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HollisBrenda Hollis; Colonel, U.S. Air Force (ret.): "War Crimes Prosecution," 4/18/01

JohnsonChalmers Johnson; President, Japan Policy Research Institute: "The Last Days of the American Republic," 03/7/07
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KarekeziAlice Karekezi; Human Rights Activist: "Justice in Rwanda: The Rights of Women," 10/5/99
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Interview en français

KathradaAhmed Kathrada; former political prisoner of Apartheid: "Alongside Nelson Mandela," 11/8/96
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KohHarold Hongju Koh; Professor of International Law, Yale University: "Transnational Legal Process and World Order" 10/3/03
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NaglerGerald Nagler; Chair of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human: "The Human Rights Movement and the Helsinki Process," 4/30/02

NeufeldPeter Neufeld; Attorney at Law and Co-Director of the Innocence Project; co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted: "Passion for Justice," 4/27/01
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NussbaumMartha C. Nussbaum; Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago: "Women's Rights, Religious Freedom, and Liberal Education," 9/14/06
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OgataSadako Ogata; UN High Commissioner for Refugees: "Humanitarian Assistance," 3/17/99
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PeressGilles Peress; photographer, Magnum Photos: "Images, Reality, and the Curse of History," 4/10/97
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PowerSamantha Power; author, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide: "Genocide and U.S. Foreign Policy," 4/29/02
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ReyesHernán Reyes; Medical Coordinator for Detention-Related Activities, International Committee of the Red Cross: "Negotiating Prisoners' Rights," 12/2/99
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ReiffDavid Rieff; author: "Humanitarianism, the Human Rights Movement, and U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/11/03
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SachsAlbie Sachs; Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa and anti-Apartheid freedom fighter: "Suffering, Survival, and Transformation," 2/2/98
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SanePierre Sané; Secretary General, Amnesty International: "Human Rights Activism," 10/12/98

ScanlonT.M. Scanlon; Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Harvard University: "Freedom of Expression, Tolerance, and Human Rights," 2/20/07
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ScheckBarry Scheck; Professor of Law, Yeshiva University, and Co-Director of the Innocence Project: "DNA and the Criminal Justice System," 7/25/03
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ShattuckJohn Shattuck; Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: "Diplomacy and the Shaping of a Human Rights Agenda," 4/30/97; and "Inching Forward: Human Rights Policy in the Clinton Administration," 1/13/04
 video, (1997)  video, (2004) SoyinkaWole Soyinka; Nobel Prize Laureate; author, playwright, and activist: "Writing, Theater Arts, and Political Activism," 4/16/98
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StoverEric Stover; human rights activist and writer: "Human Rights Work," 2/16/99
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UrquhartSir Brian Urquhart; former Under-Secretary-General, United Nations: "A Life in Peace and War," 3/19/96
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WalleynLuc Walleyn; Human Rights Lawyer: "Humanitarian Law," 2/16/03
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WeiWei Jingsheng; Human Rights Activist: "The Political Education of a Chinese Dissident," 11/18/98
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YakovlevAlexander Yakovlev; leader of Glasnost and Perestroika: "Shaping Russia's Transformation," 11/21/96
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