Videos tagged with Human Rights in Practice

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program marking 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Featuring Başak Çalı, Professor of International Law & Co-Director, Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School; Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Member, U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child; and RJ Thompson-Rodriguez, Managing Director, Urban Justice Center.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Nita Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy, Duke Law; Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law; Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Assistant Professor of Law, Sciences Po Law School; and a representative of the International Disability Alliance.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Lauren Aarons, Head of Gender Team, Gender, Racial Justice, Refugees and Migrants Programme, Amnesty International; Sofia Coelho Candeias, Judicial Affairs Officer, U.N. Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict; Jayne Huckerby, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law; and Siobhán Mullally, U.N.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Kristi Graunke, Legal Director, ACLU of North Carolina; Deepa Padmanabha, Deputy General Counsel, Greenpeace USA; and Leonor Rebassa, Legal Advisor, Law and Policy, Amnesty International - International Secretariat. Speakers will discuss protest in times of crisis. Moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring James J. Brudney, the Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, Fordham Law; Lance Compa, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations; and J.J. Rosenbaum, Executive Director, Global Labor Justice. Speakers will discuss labor organizing as a human rights struggle.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Meg Satterthwaite, Professor of Clinical Law; Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice; Director, Global Justice Clinic; Faculty Director, Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU Law & UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. Professor Satterthwaite will discuss human rights and legal empowerment.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Katharine G. Young, Associate Dean of Faculty and Global Programs, Professor, and Dean's Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, who will be discussing her piece on "Human Rights Originalism." Moderated by Jayne Huckerby, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Duke Law.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program featuring Catherine Addo, Founder, Racial Equity Impact Practice & Senior Strategy Director, Purpose; Richard Gaines, Global Advocacy team, Wikimedia Foundation; and Genevieve Sauberli, Human Rights Officer, OHCHR Migration Team. Speakers will discuss messaging for social change.

  • Featuring Rachel Chambers, Assistant Professor, Business Law, University of Connecticut, UConn Business and Human Rights Initiative, co-author of "Human Rights Disclosure and Due Diligence Laws: The Role of Regulatory Oversight in Ensuring Corporate Accountability" (2021), and Terry Collingsworth (JD '82), Executive Director of International Rights Advocates, who will be discussing business and human rights. Moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law.

  • As part of the Human Right in Practice series join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program on the connections between human trafficking and terrorism.

  • Please join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program, a part of the Human Rights in Practice series. It features Sumi Madhok, Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies, Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science; moderated by Jayne Huckerby, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law.

  • As part of the Human Right in Practice series please join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program. It discusses efforts to mainstream a human rights-based approach in conservation action and global biodiversity efforts, including the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which will be adopted in Montreal in December.

  • As part of the Human Right in Practice series, join the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic for this program discussing litigation and broader advocacy efforts to protect and promote reproductive rights in Latin American and the Caribbean. The discussion includes fighting El Salvador's abortion ban that results in criminalization of women as well as efforts in the U.S. focused on abortion rights post-Dobbs, including through community organizing.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice speaker series, join Benjamin Ballah, General Secretary, Cultivation for Users' Hope, Liberia, and Kriti Sharma, Human Rights Watch, in a discussion about the abuse of persons with psychosocial disabilities and their human rights. The conversation is moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Duke Law School. The event is organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic.

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice speaker series, join us for a discussion of the human right to food. Our guests are Denisse Córdova Montes, Acting Associate Director, Human Rights Clinic & Lecturer in Law, University of Miami, Laura Leira, a student with the University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic, and Ana María Suarez Franco, Accounting and Monitoring, FIAN International. Moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Duke Law School.

  • Khanyo Farisé, panelist, Africa Advocacy Officer, OutRight Action International

    Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, panelist, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) & Supervising Attorney, Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic

    Amanda McRae, panelist, Director of United Nations Advocacy,Women Enabled International

    Jayne Huckerby, moderator, Clinical Professor of Law & Director, Duke Law International Human Rights Clinic

  • As part of the Human Rights in Practice speaker series, join Eva Okoth (Natural Justice), and Kristin Casper (Greenpeace International), for a discussion of the use of litigation and other legal strategies to secure human rights and climate and environmental justice in Kenya and around the world. The discussion is moderated by Monica Iyer (Duke Law School). The event is organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic.

  • While much attention has been paid to the human rights fallout of national security measures post-9/11, one area that is consistently overlooked is the impact of such measures on the family-both as a unit and for individual family members. This is the case with administrative and criminal measures that impact the family unit or members.

  • The Human Rights in Practice speaker series presents discussions with noted practitioners on a wide range of current human rights issues. Our second program for the fall semester features Kate Barth, Legal Advisor, International Center for Not-For-Profit Law, and Domingo Lovera-Parmo, Professor, Department of Public Law & Co-Director, Public Law Program, Universidad Diego Portales. The event is organized by the Center for International and Comparative Law and the International Human Rights Clinic.

  • The Human Rights in Practice speaker series presents discussions with noted practitioners on a wide range of current human rights issues. Our first program for the fall semester features Kaaren Haldeman (Former Vice-Chair, Durham Racial Equity Task Force), Dreisen Heath (Researcher/Advocate, US Program, Human Rights Watch), Yuvraj Joshi (Asst. Professor, Univ. of British Columbia Allard School of Law), and, Virginie Ladisch (Sr.

  • Tina Huang, Research Analyst, World Resources Institute, and Kurt Tjossem, Regional Vice President, Horn and East Africa, International Rescue Committee, discuss food security and climactic factors. The program is moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic.

  • Talita Dias, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Junior Research Fellow & Lecturer in Criminal Law, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, and Gowri Ramachandran, Counsel, Election Security, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law discuss voting security. Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic, moderator.

  • This discussion features Aruna Kashyap, Senior Counsel, Business and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, and Achal Prabhala, Coordinator, AccessIBSA project and Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. The program is moderated by Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Clinical Professor of Law (Teaching) and Supervising Attorney, International Human Rights Clinic.

  • Carolina Solano, Researcher, Colombian Truth Commission, and former International Litigation Coordinator at the Colombian Commission of Jurists, and Claret Vargas, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), discuss litigating civil human rights cases in U.S. federal courts, primarily under the Torture Victim Protection Act, against U.S.-based perpetrators for atrocity crimes perpetrated abroad. Using the example of litigation on behalf of Colombian clients, extradited human rights perpetrators currently in U.S.

  • Fábio Amado De Souza Barretto, Brazilian public defender and head of the human rights department at the public defense office in Rio de Janeiro (Defensoria Publica do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) & Irmina Pacho, Associate Legal Officer, Litigation Team, Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) discusses the right to health care in prisons in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. De Souza Barretto will discuss a case filed in Brazil on behalf of prisoners, and Ms.