News Archive

Professor Sarah Knuckey (HRI) and Professor Ryan Goodman (NYU Law) publish legal analysis of an investigative report by Buzzfeed's Aram Roston,"Justice Dept Must Open Criminal Investigation Into Potential War Crimes by U.S. Mercenaries in Yemen." Read…

Together with leading civil society and human rights organizations, Columbia Law signed onto a statement outlining the top 10 priorities for peace and justice in Yemen. Read a blog post detailing this statement here by Professor Sarah Knuckey (HRI) and…

HRI's Legal Fellow Anjli Parrin was in Geneva last week to moderate a panel of human rights advocates working in the Central African Republic and Yemen. They discussed challenges and tactics for reporting human rights violations and securing justice for…

Anjli Parrin (HRI) spoke on a panel at Columbia Law last week on what it means to work on legal issues with disadvantaged communities, titled ""Centering the Margins: Legal Practice as Collaboration with People Marginalized by the Law.""

A joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Yemen by the Human Rights Clinic and partners demands that grave crimes there be urgently addressed.

The Human Rights Clinic travels to Geneva to advocate for human rights in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Yemen during the UPR of these countries. Students were joined by Human Rights Clinic and Institute faculty and staff, as well as partners…

HRI's Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyer's Network gathered Human Rights advocates nation-wide for a forum for to report on ongoing cases, discuss common challenges, and engage in strategic discussions.

HRI's Security Force Monitor successfully expands its scope to cover police forces of Bangladesh, Philippines, Rwanda and Uganda, and the armed forces of Saudi Arabia and Myanmar. Free, public data on the forces for each country (as well as existing…

Alex Moorehead contributes to ThinkProgress article on civilians killed by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen: The Trump Administration has been loosening the already-limited Obama era policy constraints on drone strikes aimed at protecting civilians.

Meet HRI's 2018–2019 LL.M. Human Rights Fellows! This year's cohort include top jurists with a wide range of experience in the field including advising government officials, working in refugee camps in war-torn nations, and representing marginalized…

Human Rights Clinic partners Cressida Kuala and Joycelyn Mandi travel 9,000 miles from Papua New Guinea to Geneva to advocate at UN Forum on Business and Human Rights for women and indigenous people's rights impacted by mining.

HRI's Security Monitor uses open source data to place 28 district units of the Myanmar Army in Rakhine State at the time UN human rights experts say it conducted operations that "bear the hallmarks of genocide." Read an in-depth analysis here.

Congratulations to our partners and former HRI Practitioners-in-Residence Radhya al-Mutawakel and Abdulrasheed al-Faqih for receiving Human Rights First's Baldwin Award for their work in Yemen.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward participated in a seminar in Barcelona last week on the 'The right to the city, the right to difference: Methods and strategies for local implementation.' The seminar aimed to analyze effectiveness of the rights-based policies…

The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) launches an innovative global initiative, TrialWatch® in collaboration with Columbia Law School and the American Bar Association. This initiative will monitor trials world-wide that pose a high risk of human…

The Human Rights Clinic is proud to support our partners in pursuit of accountability for human rights violations by Saudi Arabia and the Central African Republic at their UN Universal Periodic Reviews in Geneva

Latest piece by Abdifatah Hassan Ali, Somalia-based human rights lawyer, highlights concerns about increased US lethal operations in Somalia and civilian casualties, and questions the effectiveness of a militarised US strategy in the country. This is…

On Human Rights Day, the Human Rights Institute & the Center for Constitutional Rights submitted a comment to the US Department of Homeland Security describing how a new proposed rule on public charge, which broadens the definition of “public charge” by…

HRI and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team collaborated on a training for police officers of the Central African Republic Special Criminal Court. Recent piece by Radio France International covers this initiative.

State and local agencies across the US are mandated to address persistent forms of discrimination and inequality. HRI and IAOHRA call on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to join the push for human rights. Our recommendations include participation in…

Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic and the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies testified before the UN about the dire effects of war on mental health.

Groundbreaking data compiled by HRI's Security Monitor contributed to NYTimes Christoph Koettl et. al. in their investigation of a massacre in Nigeria. While Nigeria claimed soldiers who opened fire on a crowd of protestors were provoked, video footage…

HRI Faculty Co-director Sarah Cleveland presented a two-day training and mock session at the Vietnam Ministry of Justice in Halong City to help them prepare for Vietnam's Third Periodic Report before the UN Human Rights Committee which taking place this…

HRI, Chatham House, and Columbia's Center for Chinese Legal Studies host global roundtable on peace and security with China's leading international law experts.

LLM Human Rights Fellow Meher Dev was featured in Bar&Bench. Dev's work with HRI's Practicum and Clinic includes advocacy for Papua New Guinean women impacted by mining and sexual abuse, legal research for the UN Human Rights Committee and more.

The Human Rights Clinic welcomes social justice advocate Gulika Reddy as its 2018-2020 Teaching Fellow.

International Community Must Respond to Mental Health Crisis in Yemen, Say Human Rights Experts

HRI Joins Forces with the Clooney Foundation for Justice and the ABA to Advance Right to Fair Trial