The Human Rights Program (HRP) seeks to give impetus and direction to international human rights work at Harvard Law School.

Now in its twenty-fourth year, the HRP fosters course work and participation of students in human rights activities through its summer fellowships, clinical work, speaker series, applied research and scholarship. The HRP advises students wishing to conduct research projects with human rights organizations, and provides counseling in the field.

The HRP also plans and directs international conferences and roundtables on the leading human rights issues and debates in the field.

Through these activities, the HRP seeks to make international human rights an integral part of a Harvard Law School education. It works to educate students who will be among the leaders of the human rights movement, and foster progress within the movement through its scholarship, engagement, criticism and suggestions.

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Field experience in Cambodia places Human Rights Program student at the cusp of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

During the Summer of 2006, 2L Becky Mangold spent 10 weeks working for the Khmer Institute for Democracy (KID), an NGO founded in 1992 to foster human rights and promote respect for the rule of law in Cambodia, working on issues related to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal project for the Cambodian genocide. Her timing was perfect.

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