Moving On: Cara Solomon Departs HRP to Focus on Her Non-Profit, Everyday Boston… More >
Spotlight feature: HRP's "Human Rights in a Time of Populism" conference… More >
Eager for online learning, refugees in Kenya's Kakuma Camp create a center of their own..… More >
In Clinic case, jury finds former Bolivian president responsible for extrajudicial killings of indigenous people… More >
Spotlight on the Human Rights Program's 2018 winter and summer fellows… More >
Clinic releases joint report on challenges refugees in Nairobi face in obtaining the official documentation needed to secure their status and identity.… More >
Bonnie Docherty launches the Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative… More >
Areas of Focus
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 >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 >Alien Tort Statute
Survivors of grave human rights violations have used the statute to seek justice in U.S. courts when redress might otherwise be unavailable in their home countries.…
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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