Year: 2009

The Clinic has worked with the attorney representing the Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (the Fraternal Black Honduran Organization, or OFRANEH) in support of their case against Honduras pending in front of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The Garífunas Communities have suffered through the State’s failure to protect their traditional lands, and now the very […]

Clinic students worked with the Observatorio de Discriminación Racial (Racial Discrimination Observatory) from the University of Los Andes (Colombia) in order to prepare briefing and advocacy papers supporting the adoption and improvement of the current draft the “Inter-American Convention against Racism and All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance.” The product analyzed problematic aspects of the […]

At the request of the United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues, the Clinic prepared a paper to facilitate one of her country’s missions. This issue was complicated by several issues, including the fact that it dealt with the rights of people from one minority group living within lands granted by treaty to another minority […]

This article was written by Jerry de Jaager and first published in the Fall 2007 issue of UT Law magazine. Taylor, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin, advertises itself as a “a vibrant, growing community of . . . friendly people living the good life.” The community newspaper announces a farmers market, a fajita cook-off, […]