{"id":9463,"date":"2019-10-23T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:09:41","slug":"media-advisory-human-rights-forum-features-global-change-makers-and-social-justice-activists-october-28-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/23\/media-advisory-human-rights-forum-features-global-change-makers-and-social-justice-activists-october-28-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory: Human Rights Forum Features Global Change Makers and Social Justice Activists October 28-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Human-Rights-Forum-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9461 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Human-Rights-Forum--300x289.png\" alt=\"A logo of Human Rights Forum at Augsburg\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Human-Rights-Forum--300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/10\/Human-Rights-Forum-.png 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg University&#8217;s Human Rights Forum will bring students, thought leaders, global change makers, and local activists together to explore innovative ways to take action in our ongoing pursuit of human rights issues both globally and domestically.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the focus will be on global issues and is developed in partnership with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hrf.org\/\">Human Rights Foundation.<\/a>\u00a0The nonprofit sponsors the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oslofreedomforum.com\/\">Oslo Freedom Forum<\/a>\u00a0each year. Both are founded by Thor Halvorssen, a Venezuelan human rights activist. The Human Rights Foundation has an impressive roster of young and diverse human rights activists, and promotes and protects human rights globally within authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s speakers and sessions will explore domestic and national issues on racial justice, indigenous rights and environmental sustainability.\u00a0Tickets are still available.<\/p>\n<p>List of Speakers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media are invited to attend.<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease contact: Gita Sitaramiah<br \/>\nDirector of PR and Internal Communications<br \/>\n612-330-1476<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg University&#8217;s Human Rights Forum will bring students, thought leaders, global change makers, and local activists together to explore innovative ways to take action in our ongoing pursuit of human rights issues both globally and domestically. On Monday, the focus will be on global issues and is developed in partnership with the\u00a0Human Rights Foundation.\u00a0The nonprofit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-advisories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11723,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/11723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}