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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.”
Schell Center Fellow Spotlight: Nixon Boumba
A Q&A with Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow Nixon Boumba.
Nixon Boumba and Ellie Happel on Building Solidarity in Haiti
Schell Center Visiting Human Rights Fellow Nixon Boumba and Ellie Happel, the Haiti Project Director at the Global Justice Clinic at NYU, discussed their partnership to fight the development of mining projects and related human rights violations in Haiti, on February 22, 2019
Panel Details China’s Surveillance and Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs
Abuses by the Chinese government against the Uyghur people have escalated in recent years, panelists at a Schell Center event said.
Former Robina Fellow Lani Inverarity ’15 Shares Win for Land Rights in Haiti
Lani Inverarity ’15 L.L.M worked with a group of Haitian farmers and their families on a historic agreement with the bank that once displaced them.
Julieta Lemaitre on the “Embattled and Groundbreaking” Peace Process in Colombia
Former Robina Human Rights Visiting Scholar Julieta Lemaitre spoke about the challenges and breakthroughs of Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, a tribunal created in 2016 to try the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and former members of the Colombian military for war crimes, on February 21, 2019.
Lowenstein Clinic Defends Victims of Human Rights Abuses in War on Terror
The Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School is representing three men who have endured an extended period of arbitrary detention in Afghanistan.
Human Rights Experts Denounce the “Extraterritorialization” of Migration Controls
Two European human rights scholars discussed efforts to deter migration and potential legal avenues for stopping these tactics at the 2019 Human Rights Workshop.
Human Rights Program Alum Discusses Work on Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka
A Q&A with Emily Rice, former member of the Schell Center's Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights and her work today.