Events

This panel will explore the impact of the International Human Rights Clinic on training future generations of human rights advocates to advance women’s rights globally. As much as the fight for gender justice has enjoyed significant gains with the growth of the international human rights movement, many obstacles to equality remain. While global crime rates are on a downward trend,…

Join us for pizza and an overview of the Human Rights Program and how you can get involved! We’ll give you information on our International Human Rights Clinic; summer funding for human rights internships; post-graduate fellowships; events and conferences; and the larger human rights community at Harvard Law School. Then it’s your turn: mix and mingle with instructors from the…

Please join the South Asian Law Students Association, the International Human Rights Clinic, and HLS Advocates for Human Rights for “The World’s Oldest Form of Existing Discrimination,” a talk with Dr. Suraj Yengde, a Human Rights lawyer and Non-Resident Fellow at the W.E.B Du Bois Institute at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Dr. Yengde will discuss the ongoing ramifications of the caste system in…

March 27, 2018 The U.S. in Yemen: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What That Means for Rights Protection 12:00- 1:00 p.m. WCC 1019   The war in Yemen has been marred by frequent violations of the laws of war by all parties to the conflict, and a humanitarian crisis that has left millions at risk of famine and…

Please join us for a discussion with Mustafa Akyol , author of “Islam Without Extremes: and Senior Fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College; Brian Grim, founding President of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, and Co-editor of the World Religion Database; and Daniel Mark , Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Sponsored…

The shortcomings of the international humanitarian response architecture, traditionally reactionary and top-down in nature, have been put to the test by the recent rise of of people on the move.  Affected communities of refugees are now beginning to challenge hierarchies of access and urging humanitarian actors to put those most affected at the center of policymaking.  At this event, Sana Mustafa, Founding…

Join us today, Feb. 6, and tomorrow for a small act of kindness as we write Valentine’s Day cards with messages to strangers who may be feeling particularly vulnerable in today’s climate. We’ll have supplies for card-making as well as food in Belinda Hall from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm. You can also make your own cards and drop them…

The directors of four civil society campaigns will examine how the humanitarian approach to disarmament has influenced their work and how they have adapted it to respond to contemporary challenges. They will discuss efforts to curb the urban use of certain explosive weapons, reduce the environmental impacts of armed conflict, preempt new technology that could autonomously make life-and-death decisions, and…