Q&A: A Human Rights Expert Hopes Covid-19, Climate Change and Racial Injustice Are a ‘Wake-Up Call’

Philip Alston, who spent years at the United Nations confronting the world’s vast societal injustices, hopes that the current protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, along with threats from Covid-19 and global warming, will act as a wake up call for change. But he also fears what he calls “crisis fatigue.”