Senior Director of our Counterterrorism, Armed Conflict and Human Rights Project Nathalie Weizmann discusses the end - or not- of U.S. involvement in the armed conflict in Afghanistan.
Executive Director Risa Kaufman gives an update on the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights for the Human Rights at Home Blog.
Human Rights Clinic Teams with Scientists to Investigate Conditions at Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea.
Human Rights Institute welcomes distinguished visiting international law professors for the spring 2015 term.
The Human Rights Institute & NYU Center for Human Rights & Global Justice ask what steps U.S. is taking to compensate victims of CIA torture in accordance with the Convention Against Torture.
Congratulations to the Human Rights Law Review & Jailhouse Lawyers' Manual 2015-2016 Administrative Board!
Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic Students meet with U.S. State Department & UN Diplomatic Representatives to Discuss United States’ Human Rights Record
Human Rights in the U.S. Project Attorney Erin Foley Smith testifies at NY City Council Meeting on Need to Strengthen Commission on Human Rights.
Professor Sarah Cleveland and other foreign and comparative law experts file amicus brief addressing the comparative approach of countries that legally protect same-sex marriage in SCOTUS same-sex marriage case.
Call for papers for Columbia Human Rights Law Review and HRI symposium on Human Rights and the ‘Forever War’.
HRI's Privacy in the Digital Age series features two events about privacy and surveillance two years after Snowden leaks.
Human Rights Clinic student Surya Gopalan LLM ’15 reflects on his experience engaging with technology & human rights experts in the Philippines.
Columbia Law students Alison Borochoff-Porte ’15, Anna Marie Bulman ’15 LL.M., and Holly Stubbs ’15 awarded Leebron Human Rights Fellowships.
This week, Professor Sarah Knuckey is at the UN in Geneva to speak at an expert meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
Professor Sarah Knuckey and Bassam Khawaja '15 join Columbia University-Wide Team in Trainings with Myanmar Professors.
Human Rights Clinic assists in win for transparency & justice regarding violent repression of protests at site of proposed mine in Peru.
HRI is co-hosting the fifth annual Teaching Business and Human Rights Workshop on May 18 and 19. This annual workshop brings together faculty from universities around the country and internationally, to share cross-disciplinary strategies for teaching…
Human rights and civil liberties organizations call on the Obama Administration to publicly acknowledge and investigate targeted killings and drone strikes.
Human Rights Clinic Travels to Peru to Support Communities Defending their Environment from Mining Risks
Congratulations to our inaugural Human Rights Institute Commendation for Leadership and Commitment in Human Rights - Alison Borochoff-Porte ’15, Douglas Cantwell ’15, Bassam Khawaja ’15, and Stephanie Persson ’15!
HRI's Nathalie Weizmann new post on Just Security asks "Questions That Should be Asked About Seal Team 6 and the Laws of War".
Human Rights Institute Symposium to Explore Opportunities in the Inter-American System for Advancing Human Rights at Home
HRI Issues Guide for U.S. Advocates on Engaging U.N. Special Procedures to Advance Human Rights at Home
HRI's Nathalie Weizmann asks "When Do Countries Have to Investigate War Crimes?" in her latest Just Security post.
HRI's Risa Kaufman & David Udell of the National Center for Access to Justice discuss the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals and access to justice in the United States.
