Projects and Cases
Established in 1998, the International Human Rights Law Clinic is engaged in cutting-edge research, policy work, and advocacy. The clinic has developed this work through human rights projects that utilize innovative approaches to promote the rights of victims and survivors of these abuses.
The clinic currently works in the following areas:
Accountability and Transitional Justice
The clinic works to end and prevent atrocities, hold governments and their agents accountable for them, and assist societies rebuilding after mass violence. Projects include:
- Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
- Bangladesh Justice Project
- Refugee Rights in the Great Lakes
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
- Corporate Accountability Project
- Guatemalan Military Death Squad Dossier Case
- Cambodia Justice Project
- Women's Rights in Conflict/Post-Conflict Situations
- Colombia Accountability Project
- Canadian Universal Jurisdiction Project
- International Court Monitoring Project
- Stopping Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in Darfur and Beyond
- Human Rights and the Internet
- African Human Rights Commission
- Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain
- Alien Tort Claims Act Litigation
- Bosnia Judicial Study
Promoting Human Rights Within the United States
The clinic seeks to promote recognition and compliance by U.S. authorities with international human rights standards. These efforts include:
- Immigration Policy and Human Rights
- Guantánamo and Its Aftermath: A Study of Detainees Released from U.S. Custody
- Human Rights in California’s Central Valley
- Hurricane Katrina & Human Rights Project
- Forced Labor and Slavery Project
- Anti-Trafficking Law in California
- U.S.-Mexico Anti-Trafficking Working Group
- Human Rights Protections for Domestic Workers
- Due Process Rights and Detention of Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal Proceedings
- Asylum & Religious Persecution
- Refugee Resettlement
- Supporting Gay and Lesbian Asylum-Seekers from Mexico
- Death Penalty Project
Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
Since 1998, the clinic has pioneered a rights-based strategy to combat poverty. It creatively surmounts barriers to enforcement of economic, social, and cultural rights while building the capacity of local groups to make use of these rights.
- Corporate Accountability Project
- Human Rights in California's Central Valley
- LGBT Human Rights Project
- Climate Change and Human Rights
- Collective Remedies for Violations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- Civil Registration and Education Case (Yean v. Bosico v. Dominican Republic)
- Mass Expulsions from the Dominican Republic
- Dominican Republic and Haiti: Forced Migration Study
- 2004 Study on the Tsunami and Human Rights
- Sri Lanka Access to HIV Medicines Project
- Mexico Labor Project
Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
The clinic promotes compliance by the United States with international human rights standards in its efforts to combat terrorism. Its current work on this area includes:
- Do No Harm? Intelligence Ethics, Health Professionals and the Torture Debate
- “Returning Home: Resettlement and Reintegration of Detainees Released from the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba”: Policy Paper and Briefings
- Guantánamo and Its Aftermath: A Study of Detainees Released from U.S. Custody