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Sarah Azaransky Spoke on U.S. Civil Rights Activist Bayard Rustin
Sarah Azaranksy, an assistant professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary, spoke at the Schell Center’s Human Rights Workshop on the work and legacy of civil rights activist and intellectual Bayard Rustin.
Guy Goodwin-Gill Discusses International Refugee Regime
Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill visited Yale Law School to speak about international refugee law in an event sponsored by the Schell Center.
Lowenstein Clinic Co-authors Report on Extreme Isolation in Prisons
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School released a report documenting the U.S. government’s use of a secretive form of extreme isolation in federal prisons.
Workers’ Rights Activists Tell Students, ‘Human rights are possible, but not a given’
On September 21, 2017, the Schell Center sponsored a conversation with prominent workers’ rights advocates Gerardo Reyes Chávez and Daniel Castellanos.
Yale Junior Spends Summer Investigating U.S. Human Rights Abuses
Madeline Batt, a junior Political Science major in the Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights, spent last summer working at two different organizations: Solitary Watch and the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture.
Okafor ’15 Contributes to U.S. Holocaust Museum’s Project
Chika Okafor ’15 spent a year as a Tom & Andi Bernstein Human Rights Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Professor Silk to Give Binger Inaugural Lecture on October 16
Professor James Silk will deliver his inaugural lecture as the first Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights on Monday, October 16, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127.
Paulina Perlin ’19 Reflects on Summer Work Experience in Colombia
Paulina Perlin '19 reflects on her summer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bogotá, Colombia.
Bernstein Fellow Ryan Thoreson Discusses New Report on Discrimination Against LGBT Youth in the Philippines
Ryan Thoreson ’14, the Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at Human Rights Watch (HRW), discusses his new report "Just Let Us Be’: Discrimination Against LGBT Students in the Philippines.”
Lowenstein Clinic Hails Passage of Law in Fight Against Solitary Confinement in CT
A new law will bring Connecticut’s use of solitary confinement out of the shadows.