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News
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HRP Welcomes 2026-2027 Visiting Fellows
We are excited to welcome this year’s 2026-2027 Visiting Fellows: Girmachew Alemu Aneme, Senuri De Silva, Michael Lysander Fremuth, Kirsty Hughes, and Jeffrey Vogt. The HRP Visiting Fellows Program gives individuals with a demonstrated commitment to human rights an opportunity to engage with the human rights community at HLS, enrich in HLS events and conferences,…
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“The United States Will Need International Law”
A chapter by Gerald L. Neuman, HRP Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, titled “The United States Will Need International Law” is featured in the new collection America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance. In the wake of rising global authoritarianism and transnational megacorporations, Neuman warns that “As…
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HRP Associate Director Abadir Ibrahim Co-Authors Submission Calling on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to Recognize the Right to a Healthy Climate
Abadir Ibrahim, Associate Director of the Harvard Human Rights Program, together with Salma Waheedi, Executive Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, and Angela Hefti, Assistant Professor of Law at Florida International University, submitted written comments to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, in response to the Commission’s call for substantive inputs on the draft General Comment on…
Events
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Judicial Dialogues on Health and Climate Change: Emerging Standards, Comparative Trajectories, and Future Directions
This event will be open to the public at Harvard Law School, as well as livestreamed. Click here for in-person registration or click here for online registration. This one-day conference will convene judges, litigators, and scholars from Africa, Europe, and Latin America for a comparative examination of the evolving relationship between climate change, the right…
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The War in Sudan: Geopolitics, Human Rights, and the Challenges of International [In]Action
Click here to register on Zoom. Sudan’s ongoing conflict has precipitated a catastrophic humanitarian and human rights crisis, violently reversing the country’s democratic transition and devastating civilian life. The crisis presents profound challenges not only for domestic political order, but also for the security of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, as well as…
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Human Rights @ HLS Orientation
Join us on September 10th for an orientation on Human Rights at HLS! Come hear from the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights, and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law….