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Promoting Human Rights through Teaching, Scholarship, and Service.

AUWCL established the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law as part of its long-standing commitment to international human rights and the rule of law.  For over 25 years, the Center has worked with students, faculty and the international legal community to provide support for human rights initiatives in the U.S. and around the world through teaching, scholarship and service. The Center engages in exciting innovations in human rights education and advocacy by way of training, complementary education, outreach, workshops and conferences, and research and publications.  All Center programming promotes the value of service, thereby grounding the Center as a core resource to the NGO community and a bridge between academia and civil society.

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“The Center is a place where everyone can come together to ensure that human rights are respected and humanitarian law is enforced.”

Macarena Sáez, Faculty Director

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Human Rights Brief Hosts Symposium on Human Rights & Global Migration

The Human Rights Brief, a student-run publication of the Center, organized a "Symposium on the Legal Effects of Environmental Destruction on Human Rights and Global Migration." The Symposium, co-hosted with AUWCL's Sustainable Development Law and Policy Brief, featured experts from diverse human rights organizations and a standing-room only crowd of over 100 attendees. Read more

 

Whitney Washington selected as for Washington Blade's 40 Under 40

Whitney Washington, the Center's Equal Justice Works Fellow, was selected as one of the Washington Blade's 40 Under 40. Washington manages the Center's Project for Transgender Incarcerated Survivors. Read more

 

Anti-Torture Initiative Hosts Drafting Group Meeting in Tunisia

The Center's Anti-Torture Initiative organized an expert convening in Tunis, Tunisia where member of its Steering Committee continued its groundbreaking work on the Universal Protocol on Investigative Interviewing and Associated Safeguards. Read more

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Upcoming Human Rights Events

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May 28 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom A Human Right to Reproductive Health the Human Rights Committee’s General Comment on the Right to Life//El Derecho Humano a la Salud Reproductiva: La Observación General del Comité de Derechos Humanos sobre el Derecho a la Vida May 28 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom A Human Right to Reproductive Health: The Human Rights Committee’s General Comment on the Right to Life May 29 6:30PM-8:00PM 2223 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington D.C. 20008 Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights Judgments: An Ongoing Conversation in the European and Inter-American Human Rights Systems May 30 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom The Shrinking of Democratic Spaces: Corruption, Criminalization of Protest and Repression// La Contracción de los Espacios Democráticos: Corrupción, Criminalización de la Protesta y Represión June 04 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom Justice and the Colombian Peace Process June 06 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom The Human Rights Council: Current Challenges June 07 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom Elections at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: The Independent Panel of Experts Presents its Final Report on the Candidates June 11 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom Fact-finding in the Inter-American System: The Powers of the Commission to Monitor Human Rights Violations in Real Time June 13 12:30PM-2:00PM Tenley Campus - Warren NT01 Ceremonial Classroom The American Convention on Human Rights: 50 Years After its Adoption September 04 4:00PM-6:00PM Room Y360 International and Abroad Opportunities at WCL Open House
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