HRI’s Waleed Alhariri and Alex Moorehead make presentations on transparency, the use of force, and the impact of drone strikes in Yemen at a conference on armed drones in Italy and Europe at the University of Milan in Italy.
This week at Human Right's Institute: Events on Sudan ceasefire negotiations, Syrian Refugees, and the Rohingya crisis.
New blog post by Radhya Almutawakel, AbdulRasheed Al-Faqih, Sarah Knuckey and Alex Moorehead, "Reasons Why the US and the Other States Should Support an Independent, International Inquiry on Yemen" in Just Security.
HRI and Human Rights Watch's 2014 report was cited in "Why We Should Resist Calling the Las Vegas Shooting “Terrorism” in The New Yorker
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, Rightslink, and Social Justice Initiatives Launch Unparalleled New Human Rights Initiative for First Year Students.
HRI's Alex Moorehead quoted in two Italian news articles on the involvement of the Italian government in drone strikes, including Trump's first strikes in Libya.
HRI's Alex Moorehead and Waleed Alhariri address a conference in Milan, Italy on armed drones in Europe.
HRI's Alex Moorehead and Waleed Alhariri present the findings of the recent joint Human Rights Clinic/Sana'a Center report "Out of the Shadows" at a panel discussion hosted by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.
HRI's Alex Moorehead and Waleed Alhariri speak at Chatham House event on "Should Governments be More Transparent About the Use of Drone Strikes."
HRI's Alex Moorehead and Waleed Alhariri speak to Thomas Farrar of Chatham House about the secrecy surrounding US drone policy, impact of drone strikes in Yemen, and Trump's proposed policy changes.
Columbia Law School Rights Clinic Congratulates Migrant Justice and Ben & Jerry's on Historic Human Rights Agreement.
Human Rights Clinic joins four other NGOs in submission focused on the use of force to the UN Human Rights Committee’s draft General Comment on the Right to Life.
HRI Practitioner-in-Residence AbdoulAziz Sali and Legal Fellow Anjli Parrin meet United Nations Secretary General to discuss security situation in the Central African Republic.
Human Rights Clinic alum Gulika Reddy pens op-ed on importance of removing the marital exception to rape.
HRI Practitioner-in-residence, AbdoulAziz Sali, speaks to Voice of America Français about the security situation in the Central African Republic.
Human Rights Clinic alum Ashley Starr Kinseth pens op-ed in Al Jazeera regarding the current Rohingya crisis
Human Rights Clinic Student Sophia Wistenhube delivers NGO statement on Human Rights and Drones to the United Nations General Assembly.
HRI's Alex Moorehead and Waleed Alhariri discuss U.S. drone policy under Trump at the Stimson Center (video available here).
This week HRI's lunch series: Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights Under Trump and Human Rights Violations in War: Tactics for Accountability.
Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic Travels to Europe to Advocate for Greater Transparency in the Use of Armed Drones
HRI's Alex Moorehead discusses gender in the emerging counterterrorism agenda with the new UN Special Rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, Fionnuala Ni Aolain, and UN Women's Naureen Chowdhury Fink
Discussing the human rights impacts of lack of adequate access to sanitation in Alabama’s Black Belt, the Human Rights Institute submitted a report to the UN Special Rapportuer on Extreme Poverty in collaboration with the Alabama Center for Rural…
Faculty co-director Sarah Knuckey and Sana’a Center’s Farea Al-Muslimi raise concerns about recent drone strikes, based on their visit to Yemen
Carter Center releases comprehensive report on the DRC's state-owned mining company and investors, in which Human Rights Clinic alum Elisabeth Caesens (LLM ‘09) and Danny Mulé (‘13) played an essential role.
After US strike kills more than 100 in Somalia, HRI's Alex Moorehead tells the Middle East Monitor that US military should explain what measures were taken to protect civilians and calls on the US government to disclose new rules on the use of lethal…
HRI's Rahma Hussein discusses the rise of Al-Shabaab and U.S. counterterrorism responses at panel event on Human Security in the Horn of Africa hosted by the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College.
After U.S AFRICOM releases their assessment that no civilians were killed in a raid in Somalia, HRI's Rahma Hussein tells the Middle East Monitor that it is high time that the US government be transparent about how it defines and interprets who may be…
