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June 25, 2026
Human Rights and the Environment

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…
January 27, 2025
Reflections

African Perspectives on International Climate Change Law – Challenges and Opportunities for Justice 

We find ourselves at a time when Africa is trying to tackle one of the greatest contemporaneous challenges of our…
January 14, 2025
Reflections

Climate Change, Women’s Rights and National Action Plans in Africa

The Human Rights Council called on states in 2014 to develop national action plans on business and human rights (NAPs)…
October 25, 2016
Gender Equality

Commentary: Justice is long overdue for the widows of South African mineworkers

We’re very pleased to cross-post this piece by Emily Nagisa Keehn, Associate Director of HRP’s Academic Program, who argues in The…