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Human Rights Day 2025: Rethinking Rights for a New Era
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Justice Matters Podcast Hosted by Mathias Risse Featuring Desirée Cormier Smith, Jessica Stern, and Kelly M. Fay Rodríguez

Listen to Podcast on Apple and the Harvard Kennedy School Website

On today’s episode of Justice Matters, we’re marking Human Rights Day, observed every year on December 10th to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly in 1948. To mark the occasion Co-host Mathias Risse speaks with four of our Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Fellows to share their perspectives on why human rights still matter and why they may be more important now than at any point in the 77 years since the Declaration was adopted.