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Intersectionality and Standing in Climate-Related Human Rights Cases
April 22, 2024On 9th April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Europe’s regional human rights court, decided its first three…
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Prospects and Obstacles of Strategic Human Rights Litigation Globally: A Spotlight on Egypt
March 21, 2024At a recent discussion hosted by the Program on law and Society in the Muslim World and the Human Rights…
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The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission: A Champion of Transitional Justice?
August 4, 2023Since the signing of the Pretoria agreement which ended formal hostilities between the Ethiopian government and the Tigrayan Forces in…
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Signposting Another Genocide: The World’s Obligation to Act on Clear Warning Signs
April 28, 2023The dirt road leading to Kut, a small Armenian village on the border with Azerbaijan, is uneven and somber as…
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HKS, Kenneth Roth, and the Message to Human Rights Defenders
January 17, 2023It was shocking to learn that the Kennedy School had vetoed the appointment of Kenneth Roth, a towering figure in…
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The Crisis in Sri Lanka: Human Rights in Peril
November 16, 2022In 2022, a youth-led citizens’ movement succeeded in ousting Sri Lanka’s all-powerful President, Prime Minister, and the Cabinet whom they…
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CDC Ends Use of Public Health Law to Deny Rights of Asylum Seekers
April 6, 2022On April 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered the termination of the “Title 42” procedure,…
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Another Trump Legacy That Won’t Give Up
March 28, 2022It appears that on April 1, Harvard Law School will be hosting a lecture by Peter Berkowitz, formerly the Executive…
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Impeachment Can Vindicate Human Rights
January 13, 2021Impeachment is an extraordinary procedure for responding to abuse of power by government. Is legislative trial of elected officials consistent with…
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Coming to grips with populism after Trump
December 9, 2020Gerald L. Neuman, Human Rights Program Co-Director, reflected on populism and human rights in a post-Trump landscape for Open Global…
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Harvard Human Rights Reflections is a discussion platform for critical engagement with the human rights project in all its diversity and complexity. Hosted by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, it provides a space for members of the human rights community at Harvard to publish and exchange legal arguments, advocacy pieces, applied research, practitioner’s notes and other forms of reflections related to human rights law, theory, and practice.