Jessica Neuwirth

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Hunter College

Jessica Neuwirth is the Rita E. Hauser Director of the Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Hunter College, City University of New York. As senior legal officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003, she led the drafting team for the judgment in the Media Trial.

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Hate Speech and Violence at the US Capitol: Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide

Navi Pillay and Jessica Neuwirth

• February 10, 2021

Five-hundred-thousand Rwandans were killed in the course of 100 days in 1994. In its “media case,” the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003 held nationalist Hutu political leaders and media accountable for the false propaganda and promotion of ethnic hatred that led to the genocide of the Tutsi population in the country, convicting the …

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A New Year’s Hope: Restoring the Progressive Role of the US at the UN

Jessica Neuwirth

• December 28, 2020

A wave of relief and hope is sweeping across the United Nations, and the world, desperately awaiting the inauguration of Joe Biden and the beginning of the restoration of normalcy. Hopefully, we will quickly see the rebuilding of our country’s leadership and much-needed progress in the UN, as well as in other international forums …