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Tag: International Human Rights Clinic
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Nation & World
Forcing the UN to do right by Haitian cholera victims
Beatrice Lindstrom, clinical instructor in the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, talks about the complaint the clinic and two human rights organizations filed against the United Nations for its response to introducing cholera to Haiti.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nation & World
Lessons from a post-9/11 world
Deborah Popowski is a Harvard Law School lecturer and human rights lawyer who has led efforts to hold psychologists accountable for their participation in torture during the war on terror.
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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.
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Nation & World
The rigor of reargument
Over many months, a Harvard Law School team put in long hours to craft a legal brief, hoping to sway a Supreme Court decision that will affect the fate of lawsuits regarding international human rights.
