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"Turkey has [been engaged] in a broad-based assault on judicial independence, the media, civil society, rule of law and human rights... [but] there’s still time... to turn back from this path," writes HRI Faculty Co-directory Professor Sarah Cleveland…

HRI's Alex Moorehead and CIVIC's Dan Mahanty explain how any proper assessment of the costs of war is impossible without official civilian casualty estimates.

The Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic and Argentine Forensic Anthropology team train Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic police officers on accountability efforts using forensic sciences.

HRI hosted Uyghur scholars to discuss the Chinese government's mass internment of Uyghur and other Muslim populations in Xinjiang, and address possibly areas of advocacy against these systemic human rights violations.

Columbia Law School Holds Third Annual Human Rights Student Paper Symposium, featuring a record number of 16 student presentations.

In the wake of reports of civilian casualties in US military operations in Somalia, together with Abdifatah Hassan Ali of Witness Somalia and Rahma Hussein, HRI's Alex Moorehead highlights how important transparency is to those most impacted: Somali…