Human Rights and Foreign Policy – Lessons from the Uighur and Rohingya Struggles
This is the fourth part of our four-episode series where we take a look at America’s policy challenges for the next decade. In this episode, hosted by the Concordia Forum at the Atlantic Council headquarters in Washington D.C., Muddassar Ahmed is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the disparity between national and international agendas and the ways in which human rights abuses should be dealt with by global actors, all through the lens of the Uighur and Rohingya struggles.
Our panellists include Arsalan Suleman (Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP), Rushan Abbas (Founder & Executive Director of Campaign for Uighurs), Yasmin Ullah (Rohingya Social Justice Activist), and Rayhan Asat (Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs, Atlantic Council), with opening remarks by Uzra Zeya (Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy & Human Rights, US State Department).
This panel is led by Arif Hyder Ali, who is the Co-chair of International Arbitration Practice at Dechert LLP. He has served as lead trial counsel in international investment and commercial arbitrations under all of the major international arbitral regimes, the governing laws of over 50 civil and common law jurisdictions and international law.
The episode was done in partnership with the Atlantic Council, international affairs think tank galvanizing U.S. leadership and engagement in the world.