🐦 May 8 - Jimmy Carter, Bernie Sanders to talk human rights at the Carter Center
April 27, 2017
The Carter Center said Thursday that Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will make an appearance there with former President Jimmy Carter on the evening of May 8. What’s being described as “a conversation about human rights “ will close the first day of the Carter Center’s annual Human Rights Defenders Forum.
The conversation isn’t open to the public, although plans are to live-stream it, the Carter Center says.
More than 70 activists, peacemakers, and community leaders from 31 countries will convene May 8 - 9 “to discuss strategies for protecting human rights in the wake of rising authoritarianism.”
Among those scheduled to attend the forum, “Freedom from Fear: Securing Rights in Challenging Time,” are Olga Zakharova, founder and director of Russia’s Freedom Files; Musa Mahmodi, executive director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and Maryam Al-Khawaja, a special advisor on human rights in Bahrain. Others slated to speak are Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström and Andrew Gilmour, representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. These daytime sessions, including a concluding Q & A with President Carter, will be webcast live on cartercenter.org.
http://www.ajc.com/news/jimmy-carter-bernie-sanders-talk-human-rights-the-carter-center/i9hnEiWKzxUmhq1HDL68AI/
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This is something that I'd love to see! 
