About
Jamming in Karachi, a performance, talk and exhibition by Vasl resident Carolijn Terwindt, where Carolijn discussed her practice and played a piece composed by her fellow musicians from NAPA, Amoon Dass & Robinson Rafique.
Dr. Carolijn Terwindt is an author and activist. After studying law and anthropology at Utrecht University, she received her JSD at Columbia Law School. From 2012 until 2019, she joined the Business and Human Rights program at ECCHR, where she worked closely with workers and their families in Pakistan and Bangladesh on cases of corporate liability in the textile industry. She further developed novel litigation on socio-economic rights in relation to the agribusiness in India. Dr. Terwindt has published on a wide range of topics, including identity politics, anti-terrorism legislation, supply chain and auditor liability, as well as the liability of pharmaceutical companies off shoring their clinical trials. She has been invited as an expert to the United Nations and as a public speaker on conferences around the world. She extensively researches and writes on issues pertinent to her work. Together with Chris van der Borgh she co-authored” NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies” (Palgrave, 2014). Her newest book is upcoming: “When Protest Becomes Crime: Politics and Law in Liberal Democracies” (Pluto Press, 2020).”
