Professor Sahar Aziz contributed her expertise on human rights in the Middle East during the Arab Center’s sixth annual conference on the panel Competition on Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East.
The conference addressed developments in US policy with regard to human rights and democracy, the role of Russia and China in empowering totalitarian regimes and representing a new axis of authoritarianism, the impact of US disengagement and growing Russian and Chinese power projections on human rights, the role of international mechanisms like UN resolutions and Human Rights Council, and policy recommendations for the Biden Administration.
— Watch the panel here and below.
