Category: Reflections

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission: A Champion of Transitional Justice?

Since the signing of the Pretoria agreement which ended formal hostilities between the Ethiopian government and the Tigrayan Forces in…

Signposting Another Genocide: The World’s Obligation to Act on Clear Warning Signs

The dirt road leading to Kut, a small Armenian village on the border with Azerbaijan, is uneven and somber as…

HKS, Kenneth Roth, and the Message to Human Rights Defenders

It was shocking to learn that the Kennedy School had vetoed the appointment of Kenneth Roth, a towering figure in…

The Crisis in Sri Lanka: Human Rights in Peril

In 2022, a youth-led citizens’ movement succeeded in ousting Sri Lanka’s all-powerful President, Prime Minister, and the Cabinet whom they…

CDC Ends Use of Public Health Law to Deny Rights of Asylum Seekers

  On April 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered the termination of the “Title 42” procedure,…

Another Trump Legacy That Won’t Give Up

It appears that on April 1, Harvard Law School will be hosting a lecture by Peter Berkowitz, formerly the Executive…

Impeachment Can Vindicate Human Rights

Impeachment is an extraordinary procedure for responding to abuse of power by government. Is legislative trial of elected officials consistent with…

Coming to grips with populism after Trump

Gerald L. Neuman, Human Rights Program Co-Director, reflected on populism and human rights in a post-Trump landscape for Open Global…

The Supreme Court’s Attack on Habeas Corpus in DHS v. Thuraissigiam

Gerald L. Neuman, Human Rights Program Co-Director and J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law, contributed a…

Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—a groundbreaking document that established the modern foundation of…