The Mary Tefft White Cultural Center Lecture Series presents, "Should the US Have an Obligation to Protect Human Rights Abroad?" with Georgetown Law Distinguished Fellow and Senior Associate (non-resident), Human Rights Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Scott Busby, and moderated by Roger Williams University Chair and Professor in Politics and International Law, Dr. Joseph Roberts. Thursday, October 17, 2024, at 3:30pm in the Roger Williams University Library Mary Tefft White Cultural Center.
For the last decade, Scott Busby served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State, where he oversaw at various times the bureau's work on the East Asia and the Pacific Region, Africa, the Western Hemisphere, multilateral issues, business and human rights, labor issues, and human rights-based sanctions.
Previously, Busby served on the National Security Council in the President Clinton and President Obama White Houses; directed the Office of Policy and Resource Planning at the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration in the Department of State; worked as a lawyer and asylum officer with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; and served as a lawyer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Washington, D.C.