Stars Back Human Rights Watch’s Vision for Post-Covid World

Click to expand Image (New York) – Human Rights Watch will hold a star-studded virtual event on July 23, 2020, to lay out its vision of building a better post-Covid world for all based on greater respect for human rights. The 45-minute broadcast, “The Future We Build Together,” is free to attend and will feature performances by Annie Lennox, the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Brandon Victor Dixon, who played Aaron Burr in Hamilton. The event will be broadcast in three time zones for audiences in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the Americas; and Asia-Pacific. “We are at a pivotal moment,”…

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