News Archive

Human Rights Clinic receives $1.25 Million Gift.

Human Rights Clinic, Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies and the Mailman School for Public Health to publish a Background Paper on Mental Health in Yemen.

The Human Rights Institute invites applications for its Practitioner-in-Residence program. Applicants from the global south are particularly encouraged to apply.

HRI's Waleed Alhariri and Alex Moorehead are quoted in Just Security article on the implications of the death of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the worsening situation in Yemen.

HRI is seeking a Clinical Teaching Fellow for the 2018-2020 academic years.

The Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team assisted Central African authorities to investigate allegations that peacekeepers massacred civilians, including women and children, in 2014, and tried to hide the…

With the assistance of the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, women's rights activists from Papua New Guinea call for accountability for abuses at the Barrick Gold mine.

Human Rights Clinic alum Ashley Starr Kinseth pens op-ed in Oxford's Tea Circle regarding the current Rohingya crisis.

Kate Kelley writes about the international human rights perspective on extrajudicial killings in the US in Human Rights at Home blog.

Faculty Co-Director Sarah Knuckey highlights need for the US to publicly acknowledge its responsibility for civilian harm by raid in Yemen and offer remedy to those injured and the families of those killed in NPR interview.

Washington Times article addresses critical Columbia Human Rights Clinic project to research and raise awareness of mental health as a human right in conflict-torn Yemen.

HRI’s Alex Moorehead raises concerns about increased civilian casualties under Trump in recent Vice News article.

HRI's JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Barbara Arnwine, President of the Transformative Justice Coalition, pen op-ed on opportunities to advance racial justice and human rights, in honor of MLK Jr.'s global vision.

Professor Sarah Knuckey to moderate panel on Jan 25 with PNG national research institute researchers on interrogating culture-based explanations for violence against women in PNG.

Human Rights Clinic's Practitioner in Residence Abdulrasheed Alfaqih, a leading Yemeni advocate, critiques the role of the US, UK, France, and UN in the war in Yemen and lays out fundamental flaws in the US counter-terrorism approach, in a new paper in…

International Neglect Fuels Risk of Mental Health Crisis in Yemen.

The Human Rights Clinic joins 12 other NGOs in denouncing Trump's secret new policy on drones and use of force overseas.

The Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Law Review, and Rightslink are pleased to announce the Second Annual ‘Columbia Law School Human Rights Student Paper Symposium.'

HRI's Anjli Parrin and Rahma Hussein analyze recent political events in Kenya in the Washington Post.

Human Rights Clinic joins more than 40 other organizations taking a stand against torture by calling on Senators to oppose Gina Haspel's nomination as CIA Director.

HRI's Security Force Monitor's "Who Was in Command" website helps the Legal Defence and Assistance Project in representing victims of abuse by Nigerian security forces.

HRI's Alex Moorehead explains how international law is not made just by the few powerful countries who carry out military action, but also by those who oppose it, highlighting Brazil's position on the legal prohibition on the use of force.

Columbia Law School and Human Rights Institute student Junteng Zheng discusses unlawful blockades as crimes against humanity in article for the American Society for International Law's site.

Columbia Law School and Human Rights Institute student Junteng Zheng discusses the recent EU ban on homosexuality testing of asylum seekers in an analysis article for the Blog of the European Journal of International Law.

Human Rights Clinic joins coalition of other NGOs in calling on European countries to review their assistance to US drone strikes to avoid complicity in potentially unlawful killings.

Women’s Rights Advocates from Cities Across the U.S. Gather in New York to Share Strategies for Advancing Gender Equity at the Local Level Using CEDAW

Five stellar Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Institute students get awarded postgraduate public service fellowships to launch their careers at social justice and human rights organizations.

Professor Sarah Cleveland warns of an intense and intentional process to undermine the courts in Poland in New York Times article.