Faculty Co-Directors Sarah Knuckey and Su Ann Lee empower educators and managers in building the next generation of resilient human rights advocates in OpenGlobalRights article.
IRIN News covers HRI's WhoWasInCommand.com site, which helps activists hold security forces accountable for human rights violations, the "LinkedIn to Combat Abuses."
Professor Sarah Knuckey’s response to Times column on Central African republic, highlighting its failure to grapple with the complexities of the conflict and the systems and structures leading to poverty, is picked up by NPR and Outside the Beltway.
Faculty Co-Director Sarah Cleveland argues in favor of allowing Maldives ex-president fight election in Reuters statement, which is quoted by ReliefWeb, NDTV, UN News, First Post, and Times of Oman.
Professor Sarah Knuckey, and HRI’s Alex Moorehead, Rahma Hussein, and Waleed Alhariri to co-edit Just Security special series highlighting perspectives of those impacted by US counterterrorism practices.
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 in Just…
Human Rights Institute publishes press release on the event it organized where UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid shared reflections and advice, in candid discussion with Columbia Law students and visiting professor Amal Clooney.
Human Rights Institute publishes press release welcoming international education leader Maya Alkateb-Chami as its new Managing Director.
HRI's Alex Moorehead tells The Bureau of Investigative Journalism that the Trump Administration's increased secrecy about civilian casualties makes effective congressional oversight even more crucial.
What questions should Congress be asking the Pentagon about civilian casualties, ask HRI's Alex Moorehead and Rahma Hussein, together with Dan Mahanty of CIVIC in new Just Security post.
Yasmin Theodros Dagne '18 shares why she studied human rights law at Columbia, and the supportive community she found here, in this video.
JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Kate Kelly write about HRI’s efforts to advance women’s writes in the US by engaging cities on Human Rights at Home blog.
Saudi Arabia must be held to account for human rights violations in Yemen, say the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic and Mwatana Organization for Human Rights in a joint report submitted to the United Nations.
HRI's Practitioner in Residence and Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes at Amnesty International Sarah Jackson writes in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage about Burundi's referendum today to change the constitution.
For too long, many in the human rights field have ignored their own mental health. New website shares resources & tools for well-being, co-curated by HRI Faculty Co-Director Sarah Knuckey.
HRI's Rahma Hussein moderated a panel at the Forum on the Arms Trade first annual conference on the experiences of those who have lived in conflict areas and documented rights abuses.
JoAnn Kamuf Ward blogs for Human Rights at Home on the implications of the US's failure to appear at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission's hearings on the US.
Human Rights Institute publishes press release about its Student Paper Symposium, where Columbia Law Students presented scholarship to top academics and advocates
"The International Criminal Court could garner jurisdiction over national of States that have ratified the Rome Statute," highlights Professor Sarah Knuckey in Just Security blog calling out human rights violations by American ex-soldier now in command…
Faculty co-director Sarah Knuckey highlights crucial need to improve mental health research and training for human rights advocates in op-ed for The Lancet Psychiatry.
"Donors, organizations and staff in the peace building and human rights fields need to talk about the systemic, organizational, and personal barriers to self-care," Human Rights Clinic alumna Gulika Reddy writes in op-ed for Open Global Rights.
Writing in the Washington Post, HRI's Sarah Knuckey and Alex Moorehead call on Congress to scrutinize the Trump administration's record on civilian casualties and demand transparency.
"Resources in Resilience," a new website, promotes resilience and mental health in the human rights field, blogs HRI's Faculty Co-Director Sarah Knuckey in Just Security.
Human Rights Institute press release highlights Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute Symposium exploring effective strategies to advance racial justice in the US, citing HRI's JoAnn Kamuf Ward.
JoAnn Kamuf Ward questions and urges Ben& Jerry's continued commitment to the Milk in Dignity program, supporting justice and human rights of Vermont dairy workers in Human Rights at Home blog.
Much-anticipated judgment on Adrian Coman and Others V. Romania is a "celebratory step forward" for gay rights, blogs Human Rights Clinic alumnus Daron Tan in the Oxford Human Rights Hub.
Human Rights Clinic and NGO groups condemn detention of Yemeni human rights defenders and demand that Saudi, Emirati, and Yemeni authorities permit advocates to work and travel freely.
