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TRIAL International and the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic have submitted a General Allegation on barriers to justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparations, and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence.

Yale Law School’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic filed an allegation letter to the United Nations documenting the use of solitary confinement and other abusive practices by the Connecticut Department of Correction, arguing that such practices constitute torture under international law.

A Q&A with Soli Özel, a current Tom and Andi Bernstein Fellow at the Schell Center.

At the April 18, 2019 Human Rights Workshop, Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow Sari Bashi ’03 discussed her research into the ways that different social movements “talk to and about the dominant group whose conduct [they] wish to change.” This is a question Bashi has often asked herself and her fellow advocates in Israel-Palestine, where she has worked as a human rights lawyer for the past 15 years. Bashi has long thought that the human rights movement in Israel-Palestine could do more to respond to Israelis’ fears about what the end of occupation would bring for them, and that doing...

On April 18, 2019 David Smolansky spoke at the Schell Center about the state of human rights in Venezuela.

U.C. Berkeley Professor of Law Laurel E. Fletcher spoke at the Schell Center on April 16, 2019.

The twenty-first annual Bernstein Symposium, entitled “Borders, Refuge, and Rights,” explored questions related to forced displacement and the international refugee regime.