March 14-15 | Brad Samuels participates in FORGE's 2025 conference: Experiments for Change in a Shifting Global Context

March 14th 2025

Brad Samuels (Director, SITU Research) and Anjli Parrin (Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic) participated in this year’s FORGE conference and presented an evolving body of research, “Documenting rights violations at the end of empire: military violations of health and environment rights."

Forge is two days designed to foster a solutions-oriented community of legal experts, artists, social scientists, governance professionals, and community-based practitioners.

In shifting global and domestic contexts, the FORGE Program is dedicated to uncovering new approaches and solutions that reimagine rights and governance worldwide. With the hope of building momentum toward a brighter future, FORGE seeks to:

  1. Inspire the global community of practice with new ideas about global rights and governance.
  2. Encourage experimentation with new actions (methods, practices) that can transform the outcomes for rights and governance worldwide.

The FORGE 2025 gathering aims to meet the moment by spurring engagement on twenty-five (25) ‘experiments-for-change’ that offer forward-looking responses to current challenges and opportunities in the field.

Based on careful review of the selected proposals, the conference is structured around four strategic challenges, each reflecting an essential dimension of human rights advocacy today including:

  2. the Politics of Human Rights & Justice
  3. the Future of Human Rights Funding
  4. Data & Technology
  5. Storytelling & Narrative Strategies

A rich program of notable speakers punctuates the program which culminates by workshopping a select set of cross-cutting themes.

Following the two-day event, final articles on each experiment-for-change will be published on the Open Global Rights landing page.