Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Lowenstein Clinic Students Research the Experiences of LGBT Youth in South Korea
Students from the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic travelled to South Korea as part of their research for a newly released report on LGBT youth in South Korea.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Robina Senior Fellow and U.N. Rapporteur Warns of Mass Atrocity Threat in Myanmar
Tom Andrews, the Robina Senior Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School, warned that Myanmar could be on the verge of an even greater human rights catastrophe and loss of life than it has seen in recent months.
Thursday, October 7, 2021
U.S. Rights Groups Petition for a Stop to Asylum Seeker Expulsions
Al Jazeera
A news report describes how the Lowenstein Human Rights Project and others submitted an emergency request to demand the U.S. stop using a public health directive to expel migrants.
Friday, October 1, 2021
Joanne Meyerowitz Analyzes Past Anti-Poverty Campaigns
historian Joanne Meyerowitz spoke at the Human Rights Workshop about how and why anti-poverty efforts increasingly focused on women as the “deserving poor” and the shift’s implications for human rights.
Friday, September 24, 2021
Monique Clesca Reflects on Haiti’s Overlapping Crises
Monique Clesca spoke at the Human Rights Workshop and described the origins of what she considers to be “a deep, profound, almost existential crisis” that has afflicted Haiti for years.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Human Rights Workshop: Repression and Resistance in Cuba
University of Florida Professor Lillian Guerra discussed the Cuban government’s sustained use of surveillance against its citizens and how that catalyzed the island’s largest protests in decades last July.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Lowenstein Clinic and Human Rights Watch Issue Report on LGBT Youth in South Korea
The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School and Human Rights Watch have issued a report on the experience of LGBT young people in South Korea.
Friday, September 10, 2021
Human Rights Workshop: Guantanamo Litigator on Lawyering in a Lawless Space
Baher Azmy, Legal Director of the Center of Constitutional Rights, spoke at the Sept. 9 Human Rights Workshop about representing Guantanamo detainees.
Friday, September 3, 2021
Rayhan Asat Leads Human Rights Workshop on Uyghur Genocide
Rayhan Asat, Yale World Fellow and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project, led the Schell Center’s Human Rights Workshop on September 2, 2021.
Monday, August 23, 2021
Perhaps This Is What a Peaceful Transition Looks Like in Afghanistan — A Commentary by Paul W. Kahn ’80
The Hill
Paul W. Kahn ’80 is the Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.