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How can TV & Film protect human rights? Emmy\u00ae Tony\u00ae and Grammy\u00ae Award winning actor, director and advocate, Cynthia Nixon will join Human Rights Watch Executive Director Tirana Hassan to discuss the vital role of entertainment in advancing human rights and social justice. This conversation will discuss how we can bring human rights messaging, narratives, and values to mainstream pop culture, and the best ways to create responsible and nuanced stories that help expand audience\u2019s worldviews and make positive narrative change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How the entertainment industry’s relationship with social justice has evolved, what the climate is like today; and understanding the role it plays in making change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,7],"topics":[2],"class_list":["post-12389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awnewyork-2024-sessions","tag-storytelling","topics-editorial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStorytelling & Activism: Cynthia Nixon & Tirana Hassan, ED, Human Rights Watch | AW360<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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