Podcast

This episode featuring Nicholas R. Micinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Maine,  focuses on the upsurge of forcibly displaced persons and migrants,  gaps in rights protections, and recent global governance initiatives. The discussion centers on Dr. Micinski's recent publication UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees (Routledge, 2021) and his forthcoming book Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union (University of Michigan Press,  2022). 

This episode is devoted to discussing the evolution of international criminal justice since 1945 with former founding Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo. The conversation centers on the ICC’s development and limitations. In addition, he discusses the Global War on Terror, particularly the US policy of killing of those deemed “enemy combatants” in other sovereign states and the legal, moral, and political implications. Moreno Ocampo also discusses his current collaboration with CCNY’s Human Rights Forum and gives a brief description of his seminar “Global Narratives of Crime, War, and Justice.”

This episode features Dr. Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, Assistant Medical Professor at the CUNY School of Medicine and faculty advisor for CCNY's White Coats for Black Lives chapter. Dr. Salas-Ramirez discusses her research on addiction and her efforts to counter systemic racism in education and health care. She elaborates on the antiracist community work that she undertakes with her CCNY medical students to address health care gaps in Harlem, NY, with particular concern regarding COVID-19 vaccination.

April 2021 is a month with three genocide commemorations - Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah); the International Day of Reflection on the 1994  Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda; and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. This episode focuses on the scholarship of historian Dr. Debórah Dwork, Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (CHGCAH) at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies of the CUNY Graduate Center.  The conversation engages her work on Jewish refugees, children, and the special vulnerabilities they faced during the Holocaust and its aftermath. 

This episode features Human Rights Watch's UN Director Louis Charbonneau. It focuses on the politics of human rights at the United Nations. It considers the domestic human rights records of both China and the United States, as well as the behavior of these powers at the United Nations.