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The Schell Center for International Human Rights has announced eight Yale Law students and recent graduates who will receive postgraduate fellowships in human rights.

At the April 2, 2021, Human Rights Workshop, Audu Bulama Bukarti and Krystal Strong discussed the merits, drawbacks, and future of systems of policing in light of a history of police brutality in the United States and Nigeria.

At the Human Rights Workshop, on March 19, 2021, Dr. Nikita Sud spoke about the challenges to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime by women, agricultural workers, and other activists.

Connecticut's supermax prison closure is a success for the Lowenstein Clinic, which has supported efforts against the prison and Connecticut’s use of solitary confinement for the past decade.

Jorge Contesse ’05 LLM, ’14 JSD led the March 5, 2021 Human Rights Workshop titled “Chile’s Constitutional Awakening.”

At the February 26, 2021, Human Rights Workshop, Kristine Beckerle ’15 discussed her work advocating for accountability and justice for Yemen.

The Schell Center for International Human Rights announced the program for its 2021 Bernstein Symposium.

The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School and the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) released a report documenting the erosion of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, damage to forest environments, and violence resulting from government responses to the pandemic and ensuing global recession.

Hillary Margolis, a senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, spoke at the February 19, 2021 Human Rights Workshop.