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Clare Skinner '20 LL.M. highlights that for women at risk of domestic violence, staying home due to COVID-19 is not safe.

HRI launches an event series titled "COVID-19: Advancing Rights and Justice During a Pandemic," bringing together scholars and practitioners to discuss the threats we face, and how we might respond.

It is vital to ensure that upcoming UN human rights reviews evaluate government responses to the current pandemic, stresses JoAnn Kamuf Ward in a Just Security blog.

The Human Rights Institute responds to the impacts of COVID-19.

HRI is co-sponsoring a webinar on how cities and communities can address the housing crisis exposed by COVID-19 and advance the right to housing, featuring former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing staffers. Other co-sponsors include the UPR…

Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International's deputy regional director for East Africa, the Horn, and the Great Lakes; and former HRI Practitioner-in-Residence investigates how international human rights groups move towards transformative solidarity instead of…