HRP News Archives

Fall 2008

Fourth Circuit Reinstates Case Against Former Minister of Defense of Somalia

HRP Lecturer on Law Stephanie Erin Brewer Testifies at Public Hearing Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Human Rights Violations in Mexico

New book edited by HRP Visiting Fellow Martha Davis wins an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

Harvard Law School students work on Brazil wiretapping case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

HRP Visiting Fellow Martha Davis publishes article in latest edition of Fordham Law Review

Human Rights Program assists on shadow report documenting LGBTI discrimination in Japan

Harvard Human Rights Program participates in historic Nairobi gathering of National Human Rights Institutions from across the globe

Report Proposes New Legal Mechanisms to Protect Future Generations from Environmental Degradation

Lawsuit filed against IBM, Ford, General Motors, Daimler, and Barclays for committing human rights violations in South Africa during apartheid

HRP Executive Director James Cavallaro and Henigson Fellow Stephanie E. Brewer publish article on Inter-American litigation in campaigns for social justice

Human Rights Program fellow Alicia Ely Yamin edits new online version of Health and Human Rights journal

Spring 2008

Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program hosts conference on National Human Rights Institutions and the academy

Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic and Institute for Justice and Reconciliation Release Report Assessing Prosecutions of Apartheid-Era Crimes

More than 100 states finalize treaty to ban cluster munitions

U.S. Supreme Court won’t intervene in ATS lawsuit by apartheid victims

HRP Clinical Director Tyler Giannini discusses political and humanitarian crisis in Burma on WGBH's "Greater Boston with Emily Rooney"

Human Rights Program Global Advocacy Fellow Ahmad Amara contributes article to Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions' "Housing and ESC Rights Law Quarterly"

International Human Rights Clinic releases report documenting prison conditions in Panama

International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School urges Korean Human Rights Commission to examine Shwe Natural Gas Project in Burma

International Human Rights Clinic Assists in Drafting Report on Rights Violations Suffered by the Muslim Community in the State of Gujarat, India

HRP Visiting Fellow Galit Sarfaty publishes article in latest edition of Harvard International Law Journal

Fall 2007

HRP Fellow and students contribute to new report on maternal mortality in Peru published by Physicians for Human Rights

HRP alum Cori Crider, JD '06, discusses torture on recent broadcast of BBC's "HardTalk"

Human Rights Lawsuits Brought Against Former Bolivian President and Minister of Defense for Complicity in Attacks on Civilians

HRP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Bonnie Docherty writes on a proposed Cluster Munitions Convention in the new issue of the Harvard Human Rights Journal

HRP Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law Bonnie Docherty serves as primary author of new Human Rights Watch report on weapons use in Israel/Palestine

HRP Visiting Fellow Rashida Manjoo writes about promotion and protection of gender equality in South Africa in edition of Griffith Law Review

Spring 2007

HRP Clinical Advocacy Fellow Adrienne Fricke comments on problem of rape in Darfur with new report from Refugees International

HRP Executive Director Jim Cavallaro and Global Advocacy Fellow Raquel Ferreira Dodge discuss the May 2006 criminal attacks in São Paulo, Brazil with latest article in ReVista

Harvard Law School hosts high-level conference of National Human Rights Institutions

Human Rights Program students among recipients of the Andrew L. Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award

Human Rights Program awards twenty-eight scholarships for students participating in the “Summer Scholarships for Human Rights Internships” program

New report from International Human Rights Clinic indicates distorted perception of violence, crime, and security in Paraguay

HRP Visiting Fellow Mehrangiz Kar examines the struggle for human rights in Iran

Guyana: Gold mining causes severe human rights abuses and environmental damage

Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic issues report on gang violence in El Salvador

Human Rights Program announces exciting new human rights fellowship opportunity

New Special Program in Human Rights to be Offered in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School launches new website

Inter-American Court issues historic decision in case involving mental health rights

International Human Rights Clinic documents atrocities committed against Anuak civilians by Ethiopian military

HLS faculty and graduates celebrate historic UN treaty on rights of disabled