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International Human Rights Clinic
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Teaming up to promote access to water
December 18, 2020
via Harvard Law Today
by Dana Walters Credit: Courtesy of Susan FarbsteinRehab Abdelwahab ’21 (top left) and Laura Soundy ’22 (bottom) with IHRC Clinical Professor… -
Supreme Court Hears Case on Child Slavery in Cocoa Industry
December 8, 2020
via HRP blog Clinic Submits Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of Legal Historians
Dec. 1, the Supreme Court of the United States hears oral arguments in a… -
Training the next generation of international women’s rights advocates
November 21, 2020
by Dana Walters
via Harvard Law Today Since joining Harvard Law School, Salma Waheedi, a clinical instructor and lecturer on law in the International Human… -
“Deep Shame Within the Ranks of UN Staff”
November 12, 2020
Assessing the UN’s Haiti Cholera Response 10 Years On by Joey Bui ’21
via HRP blog From left to right, top: Beatrice Lindstrom, Philip Alston,… -
Building Momentum: IHRC and ASP Launch Principles on the Prevention of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Detention Settings
October 17, 2020
by Zac Smith ’21
via HRP blog Sexual violence is all too common in conflict and post-conflict settings, causing horrific physical and psychological damage and… -
Forcing the UN to do right by Haitian cholera victims
October 10, 2020
by Liz Mineo
via The Harvard Gazette Freshly graduated from law school, Beatrice Lindstrom arrived in Haiti in October of 2010 on a one-year fellowship… -
Confronting conflict pollution
October 1, 2020
by Dana Walters
via Harvard Law Today Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands,… -
Event series explores racial justice and human rights
September 26, 2020
by Dana Walters
via Harvard Law Today Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School is organizing a series of virtual events on… -
via Harvard Law Today by Dana Walters “ST. LOUIS, MO, USA – June 10, 2011: Chiquita bananas on display in grocery store.” If everything…
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U.S. Appeals Court Rules Against Former Bolivian President and Defense Minister Over 2003 Massacre
August 5, 2020
via HRP Blog August 3, 2020, Miami – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated a trial court judgment that…
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via HRP Blog Advocates call for a stop to state repression and violence, a turn to accountability, and a clear path to free and…
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by Sabi Ardalan via Rethinking Refuge Asylum lawyers have long grappled with a tension inherent in refugee law – how to win protection for…
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via Harvard Law Today by Dana Walters Credit: Ingebjørg Kårstad/Norwegian Refugee Council The refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh houses hundreds of thousands of refugees.
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via Human Rights Program Blog Last November, Sabrina Singh JD’20 attended the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva. Sabrina Singh JD’20…
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Finding human solutions to global problems
February 6, 2020
via Harvard Law Today by Dana Walters With headlines declaring 2019 the year that the world woke up to climate change, Aminta Ossom ’09 sees…
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Human rights seminar tackles barriers to women’s leadership
December 11, 2019
Via Harvard Law Today By Dana Walters Credit: Lorin Granger/HLS Staff PhotographerThis fall, Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Susan Farbstein ’04 is teaching…
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Pro Bono Week 2019 Recap
November 5, 2019
Every year, the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs (OCP) at Harvard Law School (HLS) participates in the American Bar Association’s National Celebration of…
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Serving Iowa Better
October 24, 2019
Via The Harvard Gazette By Madelyn Petersen Source: Corporate Accountability Lab and iStock Madelyn Petersen got a crash course last year in how research…
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A living witness to nuclear dystopia
October 15, 2019
Via Harvard Law Today By Juan Siliezar First came a flash. Thirteen-year-old Setsuko Nakamura felt as if she were drifting skyward. And then darkness.
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In Q&A, Bonnie Docherty discusses humanitarian disarmament
October 10, 2019
Credit: Ari Beser Bonnie Docherty (far right) in 2017 at a UN negotiating session. Via Harvard Law Today By Daniel Moubayed ’20 Reducing the…
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Human Rights Program’s 2018-2019 Annual Report
September 12, 2019
Via HRP We are delighted to present HRP’s 2018-2019 Annual Report. The report showcases the global reach and impact of the Human Rights Program…