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As the Biden Administration takes office, the crimes committed against the Rohingya may once more become a focus for American policymaking. On Friday, January 29 from 12-1 pm EST, PILPG and Orrick hosted an expert roundtable on the topic of the Rohingya Crisis and the legal basis to conclude that the Rohingya were the victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Our esteemed panelists included Rohingya social justice activist Yasmin Ullah and PILPG Senior Peace Fellows with deep expertise in the region, including several contributors to PILPG’s landmark 2018 report, Documenting Atrocity Crimes Committed Against the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
PILPG Managing Directors Professor Milena Sterio and Dean Michael Scharf, Senior Legal Advisor Dr. Gregory Noone, Senior Peace Fellows Drew Mann and Sandra Hodgkinson, and Yasmin Ullah all shared their experiences with these efforts.
This Expert Roundtable was held in partnership with Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a global law firm. We are grateful for their enduring support for our mission of lawyering peace.
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In 1867 Taro Kusakabe (1845-70), a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers College. Several years later, his former tutor and Rutgers alumnus William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) left for Japan to teach, first in Fukui and later in Tokyo. The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of two landmark events in the history of the Rutgers-Japan relationship: the untimely death of Kusakabe only months before his graduation and his friend Griffis’s departure to Japan.
Held as a webinar on October 1, 2020 at 8pm EDT, this panel discussion built on an earlier screening screening of Ramona Diaz’s film A Thousand Cuts (2020).
Speakers:
- Maria Angelita Ressa, a Filipino-American journalist and author, best known for co-founding Rappler as its chief executive officer.
- Jinee Lokaneeta, Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Drew University.
- Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Neferti Xina M. Tadiar (moderator), Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University.
Presented by Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (Barnard College), Global Asias Faculty Collaborative (Rutgers University), Rutgers Global, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Toronto Women & Gender Studies Institute (WSGI), The Dr. David Chuh Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, and Mark Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies.
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