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 citizenship to U.S. born children violates both federal statutory law and the Constitution.
The report spotlights the impact of visiting scholars and fieldwork undertaken by students and alumni, and details the rich assortment of HRP events….
On September 3, 2026, the European Court of Human Rights struck out 879 separate applications against Russia, brought by at…
We are excited to welcome this year’s 2026-2027 Visiting Fellows: Girmachew Alemu Aneme, Senuri De Silva, Michael Lysander Fremuth, Kirsty…
On October 17, 2017, Pavel Mardari died in a Moscow hospital after five days in a coma following a car…
A chapter by Gerald L. Neuman, HRP Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, titled…
Abadir Ibrahim, Associate Director of the Harvard Human Rights Program, together with Salma Waheedi, Executive Director of the Program on Law…
We are excited to announce that HRP has awarded its 2026-27 Henigson Fellowship to Namashya Karuna Arachchige LLM ‘26 and…
HRP Associate Director, Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim, and Florida International University College of Law Assistant Professor, Dr. Angela Hefti, have…