Human-rights violations around the world, from the ongoing genocide in Darfur to human trafficking in Eastern Europe, will be the focus of the third annual Brown University Human Rights Film Festival, running Thursday through Sunday.

The Devil Came on Horseback, a first-person account by a former U.S. Marine of Sudanese government-backed attacks on black Africans living in the Darfur region, will be the first film in the program at 6:45 p.m. Thursday in Sayles Hall. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, who wrote about events he witnessed in Darfur on several visits, will speak.

At 8 p.m. Friday, April 4, in Room 102 of Wilson Hall, the film will be Sentenced Home, which follows three Cambodians who are being deported from the United States. Roger Williams University law professor Peter S. Marguilies will address the issues in the film.

At 2 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in MacMillan Room 117, Brown graduates and filmmakers Ben Perlmutt, Nelson Walker, Louis Abelman and Lynn True will introduce their film Lumo. It’s the story of Lumo Sinai, who was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by soldiers vying for control of the eastern Congo during the 1990s.

The final film, Sex Slaves, will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 6, in MacMillan 117. Donna Hughes, a University of Rhode Island researcher on human trafficking, will lead the discussion about the PBS Frontline documentary that tells the stories of five women from Eastern Europe who were sold into the sex industry.

The film festival is free and open to the public, although a $5 donation will be requested at Thursday’s program on Darfur.