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Curbing the Trade in Policing Equipment to Rights Abusers Video: How to Make a Torture-Free Trade Treaty Effective
As the culmination of two semester’s work, in May the Clinic convened an expert roundtable and hosted a public event on torture-free trade with the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre.
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Clinical Project Leads to Academic Article in Harvard Human Rights Journal about the Role of Non-State Actors in Enforced Disappearances
The most recent print edition of the Harvard Human Rights Journal features an article co-authored by Clinical Director Susan Farbstein, Americas Director at the International Federation for Human Rights Jimena Reyes, and clinical alumni Sabrina Ochoa, JD ’24, Rebecca Gore, LLM ’23, Adriana Bones, JD ’24, Nitika Khaitan, LLM ’23, and Victoria Abut, JD ’24.…
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Reviewing the Record: Resources on Incendiary Weapons from Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School
A June 2024 compilation of publications produced by Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Clinic on the issue of incendiary weapons.
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Explosive Weapons Pose Threats to Cultural Heritage: States Have a Tool to Protect It
In early May 2022, Russian forces fired a munition that struck a museum complex including the final home of the 18th-century Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhorii Skovoroda. The attack sparked a fire that raged for nearly nine hours. By the time the blaze was extinguished, almost all that remained were scorched walls and a pockmarked statue of…