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David Smolansky Speaks on Venezuela’s Present Crisis and Future Outlook
On April 18, 2019 David Smolansky spoke at the Schell Center about the state of human rights in Venezuela.
Laurel E. Fletcher On Confronting Berkeley Law’s Past Through Art
U.C. Berkeley Professor of Law Laurel E. Fletcher spoke at the Schell Center on April 16, 2019.
2019 Bernstein Symposium Explores Refugee Rights
The twenty-first annual Bernstein Symposium, entitled “Borders, Refuge, and Rights,” explored questions related to forced displacement and the international refugee regime.
Unpacking “UNPACKED” with Mohamed Hafez
A Q&A with Syrian-born, New Haven, Connecticut artist and architect Mohamad Hafez about the exhibition UNPACKED.
Reporter Reveals How She Uncovered Hidden Civilian Death Toll in Iraq
In “ The Uncounted,” a groundbreaking investigation in The New York Times Magazine, award-winning journalists Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal showed that the number of civilian casualties from U.S.-led airstrikes on ISIS strongholds in Iraq far exceeded the military’s reported figures. Khan told the story behind the investigation at the Human Rights Workshop on February 28, 2019, detailing how they gathered the information that led to the findings that they reported in the Times — that coalition-led airstrikes caused civilian deaths at a rate 31 times higher than officially acknowledged. Khan and...
Schell Center Fellow Spotlight: David Marshall
David Marshall, a Visiting Human Rights Fellow at the Schell Center for International Human Rights who has worked as a human rights lawyer with the U.N., talks about his experiences in this Q&A.
Bernstein Symposium to Feature Discussions of Refugee and Migrant Rights
This year’s Bernstein Human Rights Symposium — April 4-5, 2019 — will convene lawyers, scholars, activists, journalists, and artists to assess the international refugee regime.
Schell Center Announces 2019–2020 Postgraduate Fellows
The Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights announced its postgraduate fellows for the 2019–20 academic year. Taylor Burgess LL.M. ’19, Britta Redwood ’17, and Andrew Udelsman ’16 will be Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellows. Sebastian Bates LL.M. ’19, Nikila Kaushik LL.M. ’19, Mariana Olaizola ’19, and Mara Revkin ’16 will be Robina Foundation Human Rights Fellows.
Activists from Around the World Discuss “Engaging the Oppressor”
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow Sari Bashi ’03, who convened a panel of activists from Israel-Palestine, South Africa, and the U.S. to compare their experiences of “engaging the oppressor.”