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Schell Center Fellow Spotlight: Marco Wan
Marco Wan, a scholar of public law and humanities, discusses his work exploring the intersection of human rights law and identity through the lens of culture.

Event Joins Activists, Students, and Survivors to End Solitary Confinement
People close to the issue of solitary confinement, including those who survived it, discussed what’s next in the effort to stop the practice.

Professor Claudia Flores Appointed to UN Working Group on Women and Girls
Clinical Professor of Law Claudia Flores has been appointed to the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Liberian Environmental Defenders Freed But Clinic and Advocates’ Investigation Continues
Green Advocates International and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic welcomed the recent release of Liberians imprisoned since protests against a Turkish mining company in 2018 but vowed to continue investigating irregularities in the related arrests and convictions.

Lowenstein Clinic Proposes Framework to Moderate Indirect Hate Speech Online
The Lowenstein Clinic has released a report proposing how social media company Meta can take a human rights approach to moderating indirect hate speech in conflict or crisis situations.

Bonita Meyersfeld Discusses Prosecuting “Invisible” Crimes of Sexual Violence in International Court
Bonita Meyersfeld LLM ’03 JSD ’06 discusses The Prosecutor v. Ongwen, she filed a joint amicus submission

Report Examines the Migrant Wage Gap in High-Income Countries
The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School and the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School have released a report indicating that migrant workers, in comparison to national workers, often face adverse wage differentials solely because of their status as migrants.

Postgraduate Fellow Spotlight: Rodrigo Ayala Miret ’22
Rodrigo Ayala Miret ’22 discusses his Robina Fellowship with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Lowenstein Clinic Finds Ethiopia and Allies Responsible for Mass Starvation in Tigray
A new report from the Lowenstein Clinic concludes, based on publicly available information, that Ethiopia and its allies violated international law by inflicting starvation on civilians in Tigray during the two-year-long war in the region.