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Human Rights Institute announces the 2019 awardees of its Commendation for Leadership and Commitment in Human Rights

HRI joined leading Human Rights organizations including the Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU for a briefing in D.C. Experts and advocates discuss the implications of the findings of the Special Rapporteur of Extreme Poverty and Human Rights'…

Sarah Mehta joins Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute and Human Rights Clinic as the TrialWatch Legal Fellow, where she is working to develop and implement a new international trial monitoring project.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward writes on the relevance of human rights in the era of #MeToo, and how CEDAW can advance gender equality at the local level. This builds upon the Gender Equality Toolkit that HRI developed with the Leadership Conference and UNA-USA to…

Continuing advocacy to garner federal support for state and local human rights implementation, HRI and The Program on Human Rights in the Global Economy at Northeastern provided input to OHCHR to inform a report to the UN Human Rights Council later this…

HRI Co-Faculty Director Sarah Cleveland conducts human rights follow-up mission Guatemala, and warns that recent changes “could further violate the rule of law and human rights protections.”