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<p>For more than seventy years, the United Nations has been one of the central stages on which Israel's story has played out, from the 1947 partition plan to today's debates over UNRWA, the Human Rights Council, and the role of the Secretary-General. Is the scrutiny Israel faces at the UN a legitimate exercise of international accountability, or has the institution held Israel to a standard it applies to no one else?Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, and Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, bring very different vantage points to that question, one rooted in decades of monitoring the UN's treatment of Israel and the other in the study of how international institutions hold states to account around the world. Moderated by Patrick Vinck, this conversation will explore what the UN gets right, where it falls short, and what it would take for global institutions to earn trust across deep divides.</p><p> </p><p>In-person events are open to Harvard ID holders only. This event <a href="https://youtube.com/live/SphbLaIWS8s?feature=share" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">will be livestreamed</a> and the recording will be posted on the Carr-Ryan YouTube channel.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Hillel Neuer </strong>is the Executive Director of United Nations Watch, a human rights NGO in Geneva, Switzerland. An international lawyer, writer and activist, he has testified before the United Nations Human Rights Council and the U.S. Congress. Mr. Neuer taught international human rights at the Geneva School of Diplomacy, and in 2008 was elected Vice-President of the Conference of NGOs’ Special Committee on Human Rights in Geneva, serving until 2011. He has published widely on international law, human rights and politics, and appeared on CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera. U.S. Congressman Howard Berman, speaking in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, described Mr. Neuer as <em>“one of the strongest and most informed critics of the UN Human Rights Council.”</em></p><p> </p><p><strong>Kathryn Sikkink </strong>is the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an affiliated faculty member at the Harvard Government Department and the Harvard Law School. She is an International Relations scholar best known for her work on human rights, international norms and law, transnational advocacy networks, and transitional justice.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Patrick Vinck (Moderator) </strong>is the Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He is assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and lead investigator at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. His current research examines resilience, peacebuilding, and social cohesion in contexts of mass violence, conflicts and natural disasters.</p>
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