Crimes Against Humanity in Ethiopia - In January 2006, three students and a supervisor traveled to a backwater region of Ethiopia to investigate inter-ethnic fighting and potential crimes against humanity... more

Mechanisms to Promote and Project Women's Human Rights - National Gender Commission - 1975 was a momentous year for women’s international rights. Designated International Women’s Year by the United Nations, 1975 also saw the first World Conference on Women and the adoption of the World Plan of Action for the promotion of gender equality... more

Muslim Personal Law Project: South Africa - Bringing personal status laws into conformity with international and constitutional equal rights provisions is an imperative for the protection of women’s human rights. Multicultural secular democracies face a challenge in effectively and meaningfully guaranteeing the right to equality and the right to religion and culture... more

Plural Legal Systems and the Issue of Gender Equality: Customary Law Reform in South Africa - Equality between men and women is a key component of international human rights law and vital to the protection of women’s rights. Constitutional democracies with plural legal systems face significant challenges in ensuring that women realize their right to equality, while continuing to maintain traditional legal systems... more

South African Apartheid Litigation - During the fall 2005 term, the Clinical Advocacy Project, working with human rights lawyer Paul Hoffman, researched and briefed issues for plaintiff-appellants reply brief in the South African Apartheid litigation currently on appeal with the 2nd Circuit... more