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Advocates reflect on ‘disturbing legacy’ of detention facility and urge President Joe Biden to take action and close it.

The Mauritanian film is about a Muslim man's experience in Guantanamo Bay detention center. The Biden administration must close the prison.

The military prison at Guantánamo Bay continues to facilitate grave violations of human rights by the U.S. Government.

Columbia Universitys Program on Peace-Building and Human Rights releases an implementation review of the ceasefire document between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

  In September, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion as a crime. This major policy change comes in one of the world’s largest Catholic countries, where abortion was previously allowed in only four states and Mexico City–and just as abortion opponents implemented severe restrictions across the border in Texas. Join the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy for a conversation about the Supreme Court decision, the likelihood of state-level backla...

It was noted that "the Biden administration must now follow up with greater action to protect human rights WITHIN the United States."

Elysée Sindayigaya currently serves as the ABA ROLI Country Director and Chief of Party of the Promoting Rights and Justice program in The Gambia. Sindayigaya is a Rule of Law and Human Rights Expert with over 19 years of experience.

Academics posted Olivia A. Zeiner-Morrish ’22 Max Norteman ’23, a double major in political science and human rights from North Attleborough, Massachusetts, is one of many Trinity College students conducting research on campus this summer. Norteman’s research project with Benjamin C. Carbonetti—director of the Human Rights Program and lecturer in human rights—investigates the environmental impacts of United Nations peacekeeping projects. What led you both to th...

Indian American attorney Chandra Bhatnagar, named earlier this year as UCLA’s inaugural assistant vice chancellor for civil rights in the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, was recently featured by

Image Members of the Sunrise Movement and other environmental groups demonstrating last month in New York City.Credit...Scott Heins/Getty Images To the Editor: A tentative bipartisan deal has been agreed to on infrastructure, but many doubt that it can garner the 60 votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster. The same issues apply to climate change legislation. Perhaps a change in strategy is needed. Rather than pushing against hard-line political resistance, a better approach would be moving...