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The Lowenstein Clinic is involved in legal action in Italy involving a fatal incident in 2017 in which a boat carrying migrants found itself in distress off the coast of Libya.

Conor Casey ’17 LLM discusses a report, The Right to Housing in Comparative Perspective, and other aspects of his experience thus far at MLRC.

On April 23, Bethany Brown, a Researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Health and Human Rights Division, presented the organization’s recent report, They Want Docile: How Nursing Homes in the United States Overmedicate People with Dementia.

Regan Ralph, president and CEO of the Fund for Global Human Rights, gave an April 19 talk at the Schell Center.

Sanya Kumar ’17 LLM is completing her Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship at Reprieve, an international human rights organization that works to abolish the death penalty or restrict its use worldwide.

At the April 5th Human Rights Workshop, Michael Doyle made the case for the Model International Mobility Convention—a new international agreement that seeks to fill the gaps in the preexisting international migration regime and give more protections to all classes of migrants.

At Yale Law School, Shebaya discussed her work defending the civil rights of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities in the United States.

On April 12-13, 2018, the Schell Center for International Human Rights will host the annual Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium.

Professor Javier Corrales spoke about LGBT activism in Latin America and the challenges it faces during a Schell Center lecture.