Hate Crime in Today’s Russia: A Talk With Alexander Verkhovsky
Monday, November 9
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Refreshments will be served
Furman Hall Room 120
RSVP: graduateaffairs@exchange.law.nyu.edu
The Hauser Global Law School Program and the Office of Graduate Affairs invite you to a brown bag lunch discussion with Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Moscow-based NGO SOVA Center. Russian society has experienced widespread intolerance and a sharp rise in the incidence of violent hate crime in recent years. Mr. Verkhovsky, a leading Russian human rights activist, will discuss his organization’s efforts to monitor the surge in neo-Nazi violence, the inadequate government response to it, as well as the possibilities for progress on these issues.
Alexander Verkhovsky is the Director of the Moscow-based SOVA Center for Information and Research, the leading Russian NGO monitoring hate crimes in the Russia. Since 2004, the SOVA Center has engaged in monitoring, research and advocacy work on the subjects of extreme nationalism, hate crimes, hate speech as well as on the government response to these problems. The SOVA Center publishes daily bulletins and quarterly and annual reports. Alexander is the author and co-author of a number of books on extremism, nationalism and xenophobia in contemporary Russia and is a regular commentator in the Russian press on these issues.
Paul LeGendre, Director of the Fighting Discrimination Program of Human Rights First will put Russia’s hate crimes into an international human rights context and will discuss how the U.S. can use the “reset” in bilateral relations to improve mechanisms for combating hate crime in Russia.
Mary Holland, Director of NYU’s Graduate Legal Skills Program, will moderate.
November 2nd 2009
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