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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…

CLS Unveils Eleanor Roosevelt Bust at special event marking the 70th anniversary since the signing of the declaration of human rights, and 20th anniversary of the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute.

HRI and the Clooney Foundation for Justice launch initiative that trains observers to monitor trials where human rights may be at risk. TrialWatch launched in day-long conference at CLS.

Chloé Marnay-Baszanger, Chief of the Peace Mission Support Section at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), joins HRI as this semester's Practitioner-in-Residence.