On December 10, the world will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which forever enshrined the rights to life, health, bodily integrity, non-discrimination, sexual and reproductive rights, and more. Just a week later, reproductive rights activists in the United States will mark 50 years since the passage of the Helms Amendment, a disastrous US foreign policy that has restricted essential abortion care and decimated health networks worldwide. All the while post-Roe v. Wade abortion bans wreak havoc across the country. Join us for a timely and compelling conversation about how the US has fallen behind and fallen down on protecting people’s human rights, particularly to abortion and bodily autonomy.

Moderator:

Sian Norris, Investigative Journalist

Speakers:

Anu Kumar, President & CEO, Ipas

Akila Radhakrishnan, President, Global Justice Center

Payal Shah, Director, Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones, Physicians for Human Rights

Jean-Claude Mulunda, Director, Ipas Democratic Republic of Congo