Global Challenges to Human Rights Today
Date & Time: March 15, 2019 | 03:00 AM – July 16, 2024 | 10:28 PM
Location: Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center
Prince Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will be speaking about "Global Challenges to Human Rights Today" at Penn State on March 14 at 8:00 p.m. at Alumni Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center. The lecture, sponsored by the Center for Character, Conscience and Public Purpose, a unit of Student Affairs, is free and open to the public.
The lecture will incorporate topics of responsive citizenship, including what students and citizens can do to make a difference to protect and improve human rights, civic engagement, conscience and ethics.
The former commissioner is known for criticizing fascism, religious radicalism and other threats to civil liberties growing in counties around the world. al-Hussein was also the first Arab and Muslim commissioner to hold his post in the U.N.