Kathryn Sikkink: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

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Harvard Kennedy School professor Kathryn Sikkink explores the reasons we should aspire to guarantee human rights and in her new book "Evidence for Hope" she demonstrates with years of fieldwork how human rights work has been effective over time.

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