New Book Edited by Gerald L. Neuman and Silja Voeneky … More >
HRP Welcomes New Staff to the International Human Rights Clinic… More >
Clinic Releases Joint Briefing Papers on Refugee Freedom of Movement and Business Documentation in Kakuma, Kenya… More >
Emily Nagisa Keehn Co-Authors Case Study on Reducing Overcrowding in South African Detention Facility… More >
Preview HRP's upcoming events for the Fall 2018 semester.… More >
Clinic and HRW call for preemptive ban on killer robots… More >
Areas of Focus
Criminal Justice and Health
International human rights law recognizes the right of everyone—including incarcerated people—to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.…
More >Armed Conflict & Civilian Protection
The international community has increasingly sought to prevent civilian casualties during armed conflict and to mitigate the harm suffered afterward. …
More >Myanmar
Even as the political arena in Myanmar opens up, violent abuses continue in conflict zones, and questions persist about whether the rule of law will take hold and what will be done about past abuses.…
More >Accountability Litigation
Survivors of grave human rights violations have used the Alien Tort Statute to seek justice in U.S. courts when redress might otherwise be unavailable in their home countries.…
More >Business & Human Rights
The relationship between business and human rights is of central importance in our increasingly globalized economy. Still, debates rage about the responsibility.…
More >UN Treaty Bodies
The number of UN treaty bodies has increased over time. So has their importance, as the end of the Cold War enabled them to adopt more effective working methods for evaluating and declaring human rights violations.…
More >Human Rights and the Environment
Since the early 1990s, the international community has increasingly accepted the inextricable link between human rights and the environment. …
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