Faculty co-director Sarah Cleveland Moderates Briefing for UN Legal Advisers on Extending the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
Faculty co-director Sarah Cleveland debates the idea of a world court for human rights at recent Oxford Martin School event.
HRI and the Human Rights Clinic invite applications for a Legal Fellow on human rights, counterterrorism, and armed conflict.
Human Rights Clinic partner receives the 2016 IAIA’s Institutional Award for their human rights impact work on mining in the DRC, a collaboration with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
HRI Associate Director, JoAnn Ward, on human rights developments at the state and local level in the United States.
Faculty co-director and U.N. Human Rights Committee member, Sarah Cleveland, on the Committee's recent finding that Ireland’s Abortion Ban is a violation of human rights.
Take a look at the recently launched book, Global Urban Justice: the rise of human rights cities, with contributions by HRI Associate Director, JoAnn Ward.
Faculty Co-Director Sarah Cleveland Presents on Behalf of the Human Rights Committee at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Human Rights Clinic project in Papua New Guinea gains traction as women accuse Barrick Gold of ignoring women's rape complaints.
Human Rights Clinic alum, Bassam Khawaja '15, quoted in the New York Times on the crisis in education for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
HRI faculty co-director Sarah Knuckey on 'The Good and Bad in the US Government’s Civilian Casualties Announcement.'
Risa Kaufman discusses UN working group's report on discrimination against women in the U.S. in her latest post on the Human Rights at Home blog.
The Human Rights Institute invites applications for a Project Associate with the Security Force Monitor project.
Columbia Law School human rights student Jacob Bogart '18 on the rights of prisoners with disabilities in Nigeria.
Human Rights Institute and National Center for Access to Justice organize civil society consultation with White House Legal Aid Inter-Agency Roundtable on access to justice indicators for implementation of Goal 16 in the U.S.
HRI faculty co-director Sarah Knuckey wins Global Innovation Award to design innovative trainings in advanced techniques for investigating human rights violations.
Human Rights Clinic Joins NGO Coalition to Urge Obama to Fulfill Promises of Transparency on Drone Strikes.
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute Announces Launch of 2016-2017 Event Series: Is Business Co-Opting the Business and Human Rights Field?
Human Rights Clinic Visits Central African Republic to Support Efforts to Advance Forensic Science and War Crimes Investigations.
HRI’s Alex Moorehead presents on the need for transparency in relation to the use of lethal force by States at a side event at the United Nations organized by the Dutch Permanent Mission to the United Nations and PAX.
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute Announces Launch of 2016-17 Series Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Twin Human Rights Covenants.
Alex Moorehead joins Professors Marty Lederman (Georgetown Law School and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel) and Deborah Pearlstein (Cardozo Law School) on a panel at UCLA Law School to…
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute Welcomes New Practitioner-in-Residence, Human Rights Expert Jehanne Henry.
Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, addresses the need to recognize the right to life when fighting inadequate housing and homelessness in her talk at Columbia Law School last week.
Gregory Tzeutschler Regaignon ’99 of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre kicks off the Institute's 2016-2017 event series "Is Business Co-opting the Business and Human Rights Field?"
Human Rights Clinic joins Assam tea workers' demand that the World Bank and Tata uphold the fundamental rights of workers and their families.
Faculty co-director Sarah Knuckey presents preliminary findings and lessons learned from Papua New Guinea work to EPA attorneys, climate change experts, and conflict resolution professionals.