Hyo-Je Cho
Hyo-Je Cho (September 2006 – June 2007) is Associate Professor of Human Rights and Civil Society Studies, SungKongHoe University in Seoul, Korea. He is well published on issues of NGOs and human rights in Korea and East Asia, and has written and edited many books on the subjects including Human Rights and Civic Activism in Korea (A-Media Press, 2005). Among his translated books from English into Korean are Micheline Ishay’s The History of Human Rights and David Held et al.’s Global Transformations. He was involved with creation of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in 2001. Cho has been active with the human rights group Amnesty International
since the 1980s.
While at HRP, Cho will be authoring a textbook in Korean on the theory and practice of human rights from a social scientific perspective. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Master’s degree in Comparative Social Studies from Oxford University.
Mehrangiz Kar
Mehrangiz Kar (September 2006 – June 2008; co-fellow at Wellesley College) is an attorney, writer, and activist working toward the promotion of democracy, rule of law, and human rights within the framework of Islamic law in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the revolution in 1979. She was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard (2004-05), as well as a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2005-06). She has also been recognized as a Scholar at Risk. In April 2000, following her participation in a symposium in Berlin, she was arrested and imprisoned on charges of acting against the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Three of the five charges against her are pending, for which she may again be arrested upon her return. She was the 2004 recipient of the annual Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights) Human Rights Award and in 2002 received the Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize (France) for a lawyer working to promote women’s human rights, awarded jointly by the Human Rights Institute of the Bar of Bordeaux and the European Lawyers’ Union.
While at HRP, she will work on a manuscript pertaining to women’s rights in Iran, and the possibility for civil society action.
Hope Lewis
Hope Lewis (June 2007 - August 2007) is an international human rights advocate and legal scholar, teaching International Law, Human Rights and the Global Economy, and in-depth research seminars at Northeastern University. She co-authored (with Jeanne M. Woods)
Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social, and
Cultural Dimensions, the first US human rights textbook to center on global economic issues. Professor Lewis co-edits the electronic journal
Human Rights & the Global Economy. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for her work on race and gender in international human rights,
including the 2001 Haywood Burns/Shanara Gilbert Award and research fellowships from Harvard Law School, the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and
African-American Research, and the Women's Law and Public Policy Program. Professor Lewis worked as a human rights and U.S. foreign policy lawyer with
TransAfrica during the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s. She received her A.B. in 1983 from Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges and her J.D. in 1986 from
Harvard Law School. One of 3 students in the Harvard Human Rights Program when it was founded in 1984, Professor Lewis is currently working on a book
on race and migration in human rights perspective for the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Rashida Manjoo
Rashida Manjoo (September 2006 – December 2007) is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a former commissioner of the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE), a constitutional body mandated to oversee the promotion and protection of gender equality. Prior to being appointed to the CGE she was involved in social context training for judges and lawyers, where she has designed both content and methodology during her time at the Law, Race, and Gender Research Unit—University of Cape Town and at the University of Natal, Durban.
In 2005-06, Manjoo was an HRP Clinical Advocacy Fellow. She remains an Associate in the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town. Manjoo was involved in setting up both a national and a provincial network on violence against women and is the founder of the Gender Unit at the Law Clinic at the University of Natal and the Domestic Violence Assistance Programme at the Durban Magistrates Court (the first such project in a court in South Africa). She has also been involved in the Provincial Executive of the Women’s Coalition, a forum that was established pre-democracy to formulate the Women’s Charter (a document setting out the demands of women in a new democracy). She was also an active member of the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court and remains an Advisory Board member. She is a member of the Women Living Under Muslim Laws Network.
Manjoo will be working on issues of UN reform and gender while at HRP.
Galit Sarfaty
Galit Sarfaty (September 2006 – June 2007) holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and is currently writing her Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Chicago in the Department of Anthropology. Sarfaty has been involved in human rights for many years, working on issues of indigenous rights with NGOs and with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She is the author of “The World Bank and the Internalization of Indigenous Rights Norms,” 114 Yale L.J. 1791 (2005).
As an HRP Visiting Fellow, Sarfaty will be finishing her dissertation on how to operationalize human rights norms within the World Bank. Her dissertation is based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork studying the institutional culture of the World Bank, and should make a substantial contribution to the new empirical studies on human rights. She also intends to turn her dissertation into a law review article on promoting accountability in international institutions and the ethical dimensions of global governance.
Sarfaty will be a concurrent fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Guglielmo Verdirame
Guglielmo Verdirame (January 2007 – August 2007) is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is the author, with Barbara Harrell-Bond, of Rights in Exile (2005). His UN Accountability for Human Rights Violations is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He has also written numerous articles and chapters in books on different aspects of international law, including human rights, international economic law, use of force and non-proliferation, and international criminal law. In the summer of 2006 he was Director of Studies in Public International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law. Before coming to Cambridge, he was a research fellow at Merton College, Oxford (2000-03). He has conducted extensive field research on human rights and refugees on behalf of various human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Article 19 and the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). His practice as a barrister, at 20 Essex Street chambers, covers human rights and international arbitration. The cases in which he has been instructed include a judicial review of the refusal of the Foreign Secretary to exercise diplomatic protection on behalf of British residents detained at Guantánamo Bay (Al-Rawi and Others v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affair), and a major dispute concerning mining rights held by foreign investors in a developing country. Guglielmo holds a Laurea in Giurisprudenza (University of Bologna), an LL.M. (London), an M.A. (Oxon), and a Ph.D. (London School of Economics).