Human Rights Program @ Harvard Law School

You're Not Universal and Stop Whining About it: Sexuality and the Limits of Human Rights

November 20, 2009
12:00pm-1:30pm
Hauser 105
Harvard Law School
Lunch provided!

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HRP Visiting Fellowships

Applications now being accepted for 2010-2011 academic year!

Through its Visiting Fellows Program, the Human Rights Program seeks to give thoughtful individuals with a demonstrated commitment to human rights an opportunity to step back and conduct a serious inquiry in the human rights field. Individuals who become fellows at the Program are usually scholars with a substantial background in human rights, or experienced activists. On occasion, they have included young committed workers in the field with the capacity and interest to develop as teachers or activists. A number of fellows have also come from the judiciary and other branches of government. More info...

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The Human Rights Program's Working Paper Series highlights the latest scholarship and research from HRP Faculty, Visiting Fellows, Clinical Fellows, and alumni. The series focuses on both interdisciplinary and traditional legal analyses of the latest human rights issues.

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The Human Rights Program (HRP) seeks to give impetus and direction to international human rights work at Harvard Law School.

Now in its twenty-fourth year, the HRP fosters course work and participation of students in human rights activities through its summer fellowships, clinical work, speaker series, applied research and scholarship. The HRP advises students wishing to conduct research projects with human rights organizations, and provides counseling in the field.

The HRP also plans and directs international conferences and roundtables on the leading human rights issues and debates in the field.

Through these activities, the HRP seeks to make international human rights an integral part of a Harvard Law School education. It works to educate students who will be among the leaders of the human rights movement, and foster progress within the movement through its scholarship, engagement, criticism and suggestions.

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Field experience in Cambodia places Human Rights Program student at the cusp of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

During the Summer of 2006, 2L Becky Mangold spent 10 weeks working for the Khmer Institute for Democracy (KID), an NGO founded in 1992 to foster human rights and promote respect for the rule of law in Cambodia, working on issues related to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal project for the Cambodian genocide. Her timing was perfect.