Tag: Human Rights Program

  • Nation & World

    Not-so-innocent bystanders

    Géraldine Schwarz discusses her memoir, “Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe,” with Abadir Ibrahim and Cass Sunstein at Harvard Law School event.

    Géraldine Schwarz
  • Nation & World

    Back to Myanmar with fresh insights

    Yee Htun, a Myanmar native who immigrated to Canada as a refugee and returned to work as a human rights lawyer in her native country, now teaches human rights advocacy at Harvard Law School.

    Yee Htun.
  • Nation & World

    Justice for the slain in Bolivia

    A federal jury found the former president of Bolivia and his defense minister responsible for extrajudicial killings carried out by Bolivian military forces in 2003. Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic was part of the legal team representing eight victims’ relatives.

  • Nation & World

    Beyond the Nobel Peace Prize

    Two Harvard Law clinicians and four students took part in negotiating the treaty banning nuclear weapons as partners of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently received the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Nation & World

    Stuck in legal limbo

    A clinical instructor at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, Anna Crowe traveled to Jordan to study the challenges some Syrian refugees face to obtain the legal documentation they need to access basic services and humanitarian assistance.

  • Nation & World

    The human toll of war

    Members of human rights organizations gathered at Harvard Law School to reflect on the lasting impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Health

    An experiment gone horribly awry

    Victims of U.S. syphilis experiments in Guatemala are still awaiting compensation that may or may not come, even as new laws passed in the wake of 9/11 make it harder, in some circumstances, to sue disease researchers for wrongdoing, panelists at Harvard Law School said.

  • Campus & Community

    Human rights at a crossroad

    The decade-old University Committee on Human Rights Studies was disbanded in June, having largely achieved its goals of promoting cross-disciplinary research and creating human rights-centered courses for undergraduates. In that light, Tuesday’s annual reception became a tone-setting event for the next phase of human rights scholarship.

  • Campus & Community

    House masters appointed

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, announced the appointment of three House masters: Douglas Melton, Christie McDonald, and Rakesh Khurana.