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Autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to human rights during both war and peacetime, the International Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Watch said in a recently released report. Governments should tackle the concerns raised by such weapons systems, known as “killer robots,” by negotiating a multinational treaty to address the dangers.  

Russia’s Aerial Attacks on Ukraine Amount to Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes, Perpetrators Must Be Held Accountable, According to Clinic’s Factual Investigation and Legal Analysis.

Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic recently released a new question-and-answer document on the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. The paper was published in advance of a regional meeting on the topic, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from February 27-28, 2025.

IHRC has published new recommendations for designing an international trust fund on victim assistance and environmental remediation under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

The Rights at Work team traveled to Casablanca, Morocco in early October to attend ILAW’s Global Conference. The third gathering of its type that the network has held since 2019, the global conference brought together members of the international labor law community, enabling the legal experts to share strategies, collaborate on complex cases, and develop context-specific approaches to workers' rights challenges.

A group of recent Clinic alumni whose careers span human rights litigation, documentation, research, and advocacy returned to campus and shared their insights with current students during a panel discussion in September.

This event occured as part of Harvard Law School’s Fall 2024 Reunion weekend.Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this academic year, works at the cutting edge of education and advocacy to drive tangible change in human rights. In this session, clinical faculty and students will share insights about the evolution of human rights…

On September 30, the International Human Rights Clinic hosted a panel discussion with recent Clinic alumni at the forefront of the human rights practice. Watch to hear about their personal journeys, from navigating early career challenges to celebrating unexpected wins.

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.

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. The article, which grew of…