Justice Matters
Investigating matters of human rights at home and abroad. Listen to the podcast by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, hosted by Executive Director Maggie Gates and a team of Harvard faculty members acting as co-hosts, including Mathias Risse, Aminta Ossom, Rob Wilkinson, Kathryn Sikkink, and Yanilda Gonzalez.
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
The Algorithmic is Political
How do the values being built into AI affect our public and private lives now and into the future? What is the importance of a global human rights framework in driving discussions around the democrat…
00:33:20 |
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Defending Human Rights in Uganda
Human rights defenders are increasingly the targets of repression by states and private organizations. Join us this month on the Justice Matters podcast as host Sushma Raman talks with Nicholas Opiyo…
00:31:19 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Disinformation and the Digital Public Sphere
How are new information technologies used in both civic engagement and social control in countries around the world? What do human rights have to do with the global information environment? Join us t…
00:28:56 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Democracy and Authoritarianism
How do democracies die? What lessons can we learn from the past as we seek to build more democratic societies and participatory public spheres? Join us this month on Justice Matters as host Sushma Ra…
00:28:27 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Holding Global Leaders to Account
How can we ensure accountability when international criminal law is violated? How do we approach seeking justice for past atrocities? And in an era of widespread disinformation, what happens when peo…
00:22:31 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
The Impact of Media on Racial Hate
Can one movie make a difference in a nation's trajectory? Released in 1915, The Birth of a Nation was the first film to be screened in the White House. Mired in racists stereotypes, the film is credi…
00:30:44 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Technologies of Humility
How do science and technology affect rights, equity, and justice? When are techno-solutions inadequate in addressing societal problems? In this month's episode of Justice Matters, host Sushma Raman t…
00:31:00 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Fighting the Hate
President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Margaret Huang, joins host Sushma Raman to discuss the Center's tremendous growth, along with its challenges in the road ahead.
00:36:30 |
Fri 28 May 2021
Leadership, Support, and Activism in the Human Rights Arena
Regan Ralph, President and CEO for the Fund for Global Human Rights, joins host Sushma Raman to discuss the challenges, triumphs, and complexities of leading an international human rights organizatio…
00:30:21 |
Fri 30 Apr 2021
The Quest for a More Just Society
Join host Sushma Raman and co-author William Schulz as they reflect on past, present, and future human rights frameworks, and discuss their latest book, "The Coming Good Society."
00:30:37 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Building an America as Good as its Ideals
Wade Henderson, interim president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund, joins host Sushma Raman to discuss the multigenerational and mul…
00:37:32 |
Fri 26 Feb 2021
Our Fragile Information Ecosystem
Joan Donovan–Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy—joins host Sushma Raman to discuss disinformation amidst the current political, public health, and human …
00:32:16 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Integrating Forgiveness into the Justice System
When should the law forgive? In this episode, Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor and former dean of Harvard Law School joins our host, Sushma Raman, to discuss the shortcomings of t…
00:27:37 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
On Justice
Carr Center Faculty Director, Mathias Risse, joins host Sushma Raman in a discussion on distributive justice, political philosophy, and human rights.
00:37:25 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Philanthropy, Money, and Power
Dr. Megan Ming Francis and host Sushma Raman discuss how—for better or worse— philanthropic organizations have historically influenced the human rights agenda on a national and global scale.
00:30:22 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Situating Black Internationalism at Home and Abroad
Dr. Keisha N. Blain joins host Sushma Raman to discuss the historic context of Black internationalist movements both domestically and around the world.
00:22:15 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Explaining the Dream
Alan Jenkins, Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, joins host Sushma Raman to discuss the importance of communication as it intersects with matters of race, the law, and social justice.
00:26:49 |
Sat 25 Jul 2020
Imagining Radical Solutions
Teaming up with the Radical Imaginations podcast, we're thrilled to host Angela Glover Blackwell on this episode of Justice Matters. Join Angela and host Sushma Raman as they discuss perhaps not-so-r…
00:28:00 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Kerry Kennedy, Human Rights, and Speaking Truth to Power
Kerry Kennedy joins host Sushma Raman to discuss how her nonprofit organization is addressing some of the most pressing human rights concerns of our time. Between transforming agricultural labor law…
00:28:58 |
Fri 29 May 2020
Immigrants' Rights, Tech, and the Prison Industrial Complex
Jonathan Ryan, CEO and President of RAICES (the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services), joins our host, Sushma Raman, to discuss the intersection of immigrants' rights, the we…
00:34:06 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
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