The Academy was created to promote practical approaches to human rights and humanitarian law as well as to strengthen links between human rights organizations, practitioners, and educators worldwide. We hope to enhance the culture and prominence of human rights and humanitarian law around the world. Additionally, we wish to offer relevant, empowering training for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in the international human rights system and laws. The Academy accomplishes these tasks through its programs, partnerships, and scholarly endeavors.
The Academy is one of the many human rights programs at American University Washington College of Law, which include, among others, the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the International Human Rights Clinic, the War Crimes Research Office, Impact Litigation Project, Women and International Law program and the UN Committee Against Torture Project.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Human Rights Essay Award: Raphael Lorenzo Aguiling Pangalangan and Luciano Pezzano.
On March 17, 2017, the National Jurist named the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Program one of the Top 4 Places to study International Human Rights in the world. In the face of new challenges and issues that arise in our ever-changing world, the Academy is always finding innovative ways to create and strengthen partnerships between human rights organizations, practitioners and educators worldwide, thereby expanding its outreach.
PlayThis year's competition is based on a hypothetical case regarding Eric Tardif, of Canadian origin, a legal adviser in the regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Mexico, Central America and Cuba.