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News
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Release of HRP’s 2025-2026 Annual Report
We are pleased to present HRP’s 2025-2026 Annual Report. The report showcases HLS students who advanced transitional justice in The Gambia, pursued reparations for survivors of wartime sexual slavery in the Philippines, and investigated war crimes in Ukraine. We also defended human rights in the U.S. by filing an amicus brief explaining why denying birthright…
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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…
Events
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Justice or Vengeance? Israel’s New Death Penalty Regime for October 7 Suspects
Join us for a discussion with Sari Bashi, Executive Director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), on Israel’s new Death Penalty for Terrorists Law. Passed by the Israeli Knesset in March 2026, the law establishes specialized military tribunals to try Palestinians suspected of participating in the October 7, 2023 attacks and to…
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Moral Conservatives and the Future of Human Rights in Latin America
Click here to register on Zoom. Human rights institutions are facing unprecedented pressures ranging from threats of non-compliance, denunciation, and backlash that has gone as far as the imposition of sanctions against the ICC. In Latin America, the threat may come from the dramatic rise of far-right governments, many of which have adopted adversarial stances…
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Buried Histories: Internment, Citizenship, and Belonging in India
In 1942, the British interned thousands of Japanese civilians inside Delhi’s Purana Qila — then let the episode vanish from memory. Writer and journalist Raghu Karnad — author of Farthest Field and co-founder of The Wire — has spent a year as a fellow at the New York Public Library, recovering this forgotten history. In a moderated conversation, he traces…