Join the IHE for our Seventh Annual Human Rights Lecture: “Ethics at the Edges of Humanity” with O. Carter Snead. Professor Snead is Charles E. Rice Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and author of What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics. This event is free and open to the […]

Join the IHE for the sixth Annual Human Rights Lecture. Dr. John Keown of Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics will discuss whether there is a human right to assisted suicide.

Father Kevin Flannery, S.J., will deliver the fifth annual Human Rights Lecture. He will examine the concept of conscience and its basis in synderesis, looking especially at the work of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas More. A livestream is available here.

Religious freedom is a foundational human right without which subsequent human rights cannot be upheld. This widely recognized fact is maintained, not only in the luminous tradition of the Catholic Church, but in the contemporary human rights discourse, including secular documents like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Saint John Paul II called it the […]

Inaugural Event of the Program in Human Rights December 10, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  The Declaration signaled the world’s determination to avoid a third world war by recognizing and protecting universal human rights.  Among these rights, it recognized religious freedom as a vital human right. Join Princeton’s […]

Guangcheng Chen, the “barefoot lawyer” who drew worldwide attention to forced abortion in China and who is a tireless advocate of the oppressed in China, reflects upon developments since the Tiananmen Square protest was crushed by the Communist party.  Has the situation deteriorated further?  What can be done to protect human rights in China? After […]

Third Annual Human Rights Lecture Kenneth Anderson, Paolo Carozza, and Christopher Tollefsen, members of the Unalienable Rights Commission at the U.S. Department of State, join the IHE’s Director of the Program in Human Rights, William Saunders, J.D., for a conversation about the Unalienable Rights Commission Report.