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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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A Conversation with Justice Ntyam Ondo Mengue
Join the Harvard African Law Association, Advocates for Human Rights and the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program for a conversation with Justice Ntyam Ondo Mengue, Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Prior to joining the African Court, Justice Mengue built a distinguished judicial career in Cameroon spanning more than four…
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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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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…