Clinical Professor of Law Claudia Flores has been appointed to the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Green Advocates International and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic welcomed the recent release of Liberians imprisoned since protests against a Turkish mining company in 2018 but vowed to continue investigating irregularities in the related arrests and convictions.
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For nearly seven years the people of Yemen have been victims of innumerable war crimes and human rights abuses.
Until last month the fact that the UN Human Rights Council’s Group of Eminent Experts (GEE) was documenting crimes by all parties to the conflict and reporting them to the world attested to a commitment to address widespread impunity for such crimes. It signaled to civilians in Yemen that Member States of the United Nations were not turning a blind eye to their suffering.