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The Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 30: “Women Leading the Way on FoRB” Season – A Conversation with Anila AliEpisode Notes Episode 30: “Women Leading the Way on FoRB” Season – A Conversation with Anila Ali In this episode, Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett speaks with Anila Ali, founder and president of the American Muslim & Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council (AMMWEC). She is a fearless voice countering and condemning extremism, encouraging religious plurality, taking on taboo subjects, and working to build interfaith alliances around the world. This conversation covers the roots of her advocacy, which trace back to her childhood, and the events that set her on a path of advocating for freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for...2025-03-1831 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 28: Sports & Rights Season – A Conversation with Enes Kanter FreedomThis will be the fifth and final episode of our Sports & Rights season. Over the course of this series, we've taken an in-depth look at what happens when the worlds of sports and human rights collide. We've brought you conversations with Olympians, activists, journalists, academics, and fans. We've tried to unpack some of the stickiest questions around the intersection of sports and human rights. This podcast season started just as the FIFA World Cup kicked off in Qatar, and perhaps appropriately it ended just as FIFA announced that Saudia Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup. If this t...2024-12-2025 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 24: Special re-release of “Vladimir Kara-Murza: The Democracy Activist Putin Wants Dead”On April 11, 2024, we are re-releasing our 2021 episode “The Democracy Activist Putin Wants Dead.” There is a very somber reason for this re-release. This date marks the two-year anniversary of Vladimir Kara-Murza’s arrest and imprisonment on charges of “public dissemination of deliberately false information.” Vladimir, one of the boldest and most eloquent Russian opposition figures, committed the great “crime” of speaking out against Russian president Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression on Ukraine. For speaking the truth, he is now serving a 25-year sentence in a remote and notoriously harsh penal colony. Vladimir’s health, already compromised by two nearly fatal poiso...2024-04-1129 min
Navigating UncertaintyEpisode 51 - Katrina Lantos SwettIn this episode of Navigating Uncertainty, Dr. Mansharamani speaks with Katrina Lantos Swett, President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. Katrina shares her amazing story of growing up in California, her decision to attend Yale University, and her political experience as a successful campaign manager for her father, Congressman Tom Lantos, and her husband, Congressman Dick Swett. Katrina also shares her thoughts on the depressing state of human rights in the world today, giving special attention to what’s transpiring in China, Russia, and Gaza. She ends the episode with timely and sage advice on navigating uncertainty: Fi...2024-03-1459 min
Drinks and DiplomacyThe Essential Nature of Human RightsAs with many of these conversations, there is a tendency to include a litany of issues as a part of Human Rights. Following the horrors of the Second World War, the world came together and created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides the foundation of Human Rights laws, which was ratified by all but eight member states (they abstained rather that rejecting it). Outlining what governments can and cannot do to you as a person, these laws help the world come together and avoid the worst of human nature, this episode will help you to understand what...2024-03-1135 min
Crossing Faiths105: Dr. Katrina Lantos SwettIRF Month begins with an interview with Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. Afterward, John and Elliot discuss youth involvement in the IRF movement.
Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett serves as President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, established in 2008 to continue the legacy of her father, the late Congressman Tom Lantos. Under her leadership, The Lantos Foundation has rapidly become a distinguished and respected voice on key human rights concerns. Dr. Lantos Swett is the former Chair and Vice-Chair of the United States Commission on International...2024-02-051h 03
NEVER AGAIN IS NOW PodcastU.S. -- Congressman Tom Lantos' human rights legacy -- Ep. #124Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, shares her father's Hungarian Holocaust survival story including the role of Swedish rescuer Raoul Wallenberg. She also discusses the foundation's current activities to fight the rise in antisemitism around the world today. See https://www.lantosfoundation.org/ for more information.
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Global I.Q. Podcast2023 Benac Human Dignity For All LectureABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Sam Brownback currently serves as co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit, is a senior fellow at Global Christian Relief, and is chairman of the National Committee for Religious Freedom. While serving as ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom under the Trump Administration from 2018 until 2021, Brownback focused on highlighting cases of religious discrimination in various countries such as China and Iran and worked with organizations and coalitions promoting international competence. He began his career in Kansas in 1986 and became the youngest Secretary of Agriculture in that state’s history. Brownback won a seat in the U.S. House of...2023-12-141h 01
Events at USIPThe International Religious Freedom Act at 25The 25th anniversary of the landmark International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) presents an opportunity to reflect on the United States’ strong bipartisan consensus around the centrality of religious freedom to ensuring peace and stability around the world. On October 31, USIP hosted a discussion on how the IRFA helped create a U.S. mandate for promoting international religious freedom, the successes and lessons of its implementation across multiple administrations, and the mission’s ongoing relevance to global peace and security.
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Lise Grande, welcoming remarks President and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace
Frank...2023-11-011h 40
Capitol ReportS2 Episode 22: Sen. Lankford: CCP Doesn't Want Exposure of Human Rights Abuses; Religious Freedom Transcends Political PartiesSecretary of State Antony Blinken's has an upcoming trip to China. Oklahoma Senator James Lankford is raising concerns over China's human rights abuses, specifically those persecuted for their beliefs. We spoke to the senator.Earlier today, at the International Religious Freedom Summit, I sat down with the co-chair Katrina Lantos Swett. We talked about the bipartisan support for this cause, and also the challenges they're facing. 2023-01-3113 min
Global in the Granite StateSports and Human Rights: Who is Responsible?The Global in the Granite State brings you a extra special, bonus episode, through a collaboration with the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. In this episode, Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett and Tim Horgan join forces for a dynamic conversation about the complex and often problematic ways in which the world of sports intersects and interacts with human rights issues. They cover everything from sportswashing (ancient and modern!) – including the two biggest sporting events of 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics and the World Cup in Qatar – to the responsibility of sports federations to promote and uphold human rights, to the...2022-11-2340 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 23: Sports & Rights Season: Joint episode with World Affairs Council of New HampshireThe Keeper’s new Sports & Rights season kicks off with something a little different – a joint episode hosted by Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett and Tim Horgan, Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire and host of the Global in the Granite State podcast. Katrina and Tim join forces for a dynamic conversation about the complex and often problematic ways in which the world of sports intersects and interacts with human rights issues. They cover everything from sportswashing (ancient and modern!) – including the two biggest sporting events of 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics and the World Cup in Qatar...2022-11-2340 min
NTD 'En Primera Plana'El voto hispano en juego:legisladores republicanos en acción|Alerta:Agricultura USA|¿Trump&DeSantis?Bienvenidos a la entrega 394 de “En Primera Plana” de la NTD.
La representante Elise Stefanik (una republicana de Nueva York) da la voz de alarma sobre la amenaza que afronta la industria agrícola de EE. UU.
El voto de las comunidades latinas se ha convertido en uno de los objetivos políticos más codiciados de cara a la elecciones legislativas de 2022. El periodista brasileño Paulo Figueiredo, señala que el multimillonario George Soros, ha financiado, en parte, el lanzamiento de una empresa de medios en español. La startup ha adquirido casi inmediatam...2022-07-0227 minCapitol ReportEpisode 53: International Religious Freedom Summit | SCOTUS Rules AgainWhat would be a unifying cause to bridge the partisanship throughout the country? Katrina Lantos Swett, the co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit might have the answer. The United States Supreme Court has been in the spotlight in recent days, with two more consequential rulings rolled out today. One is in favor of the democrat policy and the other for the republicans. Arkansas congressman French Hill joins us to discuss. 2022-06-3015 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 22: Pavel KhodorkovskyOver the past several weeks, we have watched Russia’s unprovoked attacks on the people of Ukraine with horror, outrage, and a deep sense of fear for what this will mean for freedom and democracy in Europe – and the world. We have sought out trusted experts on the situation to help us better understand what the future may hold, for both Ukraine and Russia. In this special episode of The Keeper, we share a conversation between Lantos Foundation President Katrina Lantos Swett and Pavel Khodorkovsky. Pavel is the son of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly Putin’s most prominent political prisoner and no...2022-04-2030 min
Hardwired: On the Frontlines of FreedomDr. Katrina Lantos Swett, The Lantos Foundation“They experienced in a very personal way what it meant to become a hunted animal within your own country. To have your fellow citizens, to have your friends, your fellow students turn against you.” These are the words of Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett as she describes her parent's experience during the Holocaust. She continues on her father's legacy as President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice to ensure that history does not repeat itself...to protect vulnerable communities around the world from the horror her parents and millions of other victims experienced during the Holo...2021-09-221h 07The Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 21: Rule of Law Season Finale – 2020 Lantos Prize Laureate Bryan Stevenson on JusticeOn the final episode of our 7-part Rule of Law season, we return to the subject of the state of the rule of law right here in America. We hear from our 2020 Lantos Human Rights Prize Laureate Bryan Stevenson, who has been a tireless advocate for applying the rule of law equally and fairly in the United States, regardless of race or economic status, as well as for dealing more honestly and openly with this country’s history of inequality. Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of the best-selling book Just Mercy, has spent more th...2021-06-2323 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 17: Rule of Law Season – Hong Kong Activist in ExileIn this episode, we focus on a part of the world that has become one of the front lines of the fight to uphold the Rule of Law – Hong Kong. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has been imposing increasingly strict measures on the once autonomous and democratic Hong Kong, designed to erode that autonomy. The response has not come from the powerful or well-connected members of Hong Kong society, but from the vibrant, beating heart of Hong Kong: its youth. Nathan Law, who became the youngest lawmaker ever elected to the Hong Kong Legislative Council in 2016, has em...2021-03-0524 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastRule of Law Season TrailerThe new season of The Keeper will focus on three simple, but powerful, words: Rule of Law. When we decided to make this the focus of our season, we never imagined that the start of 2021 would bring this concept to the very forefront of public discourse. From the arrest of Alexey Navalny and mass protests in Russia, to China's brutal crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong, to the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, there has never been a more important time to understand and commit to the rule of law. But what does that p...2021-01-2801 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 13: Solidarity Sabbath Season – Highways of HateThis episode, the fourth in the special Solidarity Sabbath season, takes a deeper look at an area where anti-Semitism, and hate of all forms, is spreading in alarming ways – the internet. Katrina Lantos Swett speaks with Yigal Carmon, President and co-founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). For more than two decades, MEMRI has done ground-breaking work, researching the most disturbing examples of extreme anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in the Arabic-, Farsi- and Urdu-speaking world. While much of MEMRI’s work in the past focused on analysis of media outlets, textbooks, religious sermons and similar kinds of comm...2020-08-1511 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 12: Solidarity Sabbath Season - SurvivorsThe Holocaust, or Shoah in Hebrew, refers to the World War II genocide of 6 million European Jews. This was unequivocally the most extreme and horrific example of anti-Semitism the world has ever seen. Yet, somehow Jewish survivors of this atrocity, including the Lantos Foundation’s namesake Tom Lantos, were able to emerge from this dark time with their spirits unbroken and with a deep sense of their responsibility to ensure that such horrors never happen again. In this episode, podcast host and Lantos Foundation President Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett speaks with two Holocaust survivors about their experiences during WWII an...2020-07-3118 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 11: Solidarity Sabbath Season - Special Envoy Elan CarrEpisode 11 of The Keeper, and the second episode of our Solidarity Sabbath season, will bring you into the 21st century of anti-Semitism with a conversation with the United States’ top diplomat tasked with combating anti-Semitism. Elan Carr, the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, joins Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett to speak about his work in the fight against anti-Semitism – what keeps him up at night, and what encourages him and gives him hope for the future.Links:Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-SemitismDefining Anti-SemitismEx...2020-07-1728 minGlobal in the Granite StateGlobal in the Granite State #6 - Cyber Warfare and Human RightsIn this episode we sit down with New York Times National Security Correspondent, David Sanger, to talk about Cyber Warfare and Conflict. We also take the opportunity to speak with Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett about the work of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice.2019-08-2928 min
Beyond PoliticsOff The Record 11/2/18Paul is joined by Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, President of the Lantos Foundation
https://www.lantosfoundation.org2018-11-0345 minThe Keeper: A Human Rights PodcastEpisode 8 : Katrina Lantos Swett Remarks at Evian ConferenceIn July of 1938, representatives of 32 nations were summoned to Evian France at the call of President Franklin Roosevelt to try to find a solution to the Jewish refugee problem - a crisis precipitated by the increasingly draconian and violent persecution of Jews in Germany and Austria. The conference, which began with high hopes and high-minded rhetoric, was to end in abject failure. The assembled nations refused to open their hearts and their shores to the persecuted Jews of Europe and their abdication of moral responsibility was taken by Hitler as a green light to move forward with his genocidal "...2018-08-2725 min