HRI co-organizes a meeting for the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies to strengthen the treaty body system, with a focus on human rights reporting, internal coordination, and increased review capacity.
Congratulations to our leading partner in the work on war crimes and mass graves, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), for being nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize!
Priyanka Motaparthy, Director of Project on Counterterrorism, Armed Conflict, and Human Rights, discusses what a legal investigation into civilian casualties caused by the U.S.'s Baghdadi Raid in Syria should include.
As part of her work with the Columbia Law Human Rights Clinic, Shannon Marcoux '21 J.D. discusses how COVID-19 is a disproportionately devastating disease for the Marshallese in Hawai’i
HRI calls on federal actors to shift course and protect historically marginalized communities that are bearing the brunt of the health impacts and economic harms of COVID-19.
Even as COVID-19 reveals deep inequities, the Trump administration continues to downplay the significance of economic and social rights, writes JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Director of Human Rights in the U.S. Project.
