Know Your Rights: Hate Crimes and Hate Speech

Wednesday, February 19, 2020
3:30 PM 4:30 PM 15:30 16:30

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You're invited to a webinar on:

"Know Your Rights: Hate Crimes and Hate Speech"

with Dr. Waris Husain, American Bar Association Center for Human Rights

According to the FBI, hate crime violence has reached a 19-year high. Dr. Waris Husain will survey the current landscape of hate crime laws and trends in the United States and discuss their impact on Pakistani-American and Muslim-American communities. The discussion will detail the rights afforded to victims of hate crimes; address hate speech in public spaces; and explain methods to actualize those rights, including filing formal complaints, alerting proper authorities, and filing for civil damages. (Note: Legal advice on particular cases cannot be provided during this event.)

Submit questions in advance to jpearl@americanpakistan.org

Dr. Waris Husain was previously a Policy Analyst at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom covering the South Asia region. He is an adjunct professor of international law at the Howard University School of Law. Dr. Husain received his S.J.D. degree from American University Washington College of Law in 2017, specializing in constitutional and comparative law. Dr. Husain received his J.D. from the Howard University School of Law in 2011 and his LL.M. at American University Washington College of Law, specializing in international human rights and international business in 2013.

Shamila N. Chaudhary (moderator) is President of the American Pakistan Foundation and an international affairs analyst specializing in U.S. foreign policy with a focus on U.S.-Pakistan relations, Pakistan internal politics, and regional issues in South Asia. She is a Senior South Asia Fellow at the Washington D.C.-based New America think tank and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Her work is regularly cited and published in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, the New York Times and she has frequently appeared on NPR, CNN, Fox News, and other media outlets.