Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic welcome Ireland’s January 2021 draft of a political declaration to strengthen the protection of civilians from the harm caused by the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
E. Tendayi Achiume, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, offered an international human rights perspective on the issue.
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The undersigned organizations urge the Biden Administration to engage constructively with the International Criminal Court (ICC). The U.S. government’s support for the ICC could help secure justice for victims in situations from Myanmar to Darfur, just as it helped facilitate the February 4 historic conviction of a former leader of an armed rebel group for war crimes and crimes against humanity in northern Uganda.
Legal scholars and experts discussed mobilizing and advocating for human rights and racial justice in a virtual panel at Harvard Law School on Thursday.
The event titled “Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Justice” marked the second installment in a year-long series hosted by the Human Rights Program at the Law School.
Moderated by Aminta J. Ossom, a clinical instructor at the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, the event featured Gay J. McDougall, the scholar-in-residence at Fordham Law School; Nicole Austin-Hillery, the executive director of Human Rights Watch’s U.S. Program; and Maryum J. Jordan ’10, counsel for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law.