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April 25, 2015
Metal Huasi, a Foundry/Smelter company, operated in the town of Abra Pampa, Jujuy, in Northern Argentina, from the 1950s until 1986. There were three areas within the town where the smelting plant’s waste was deposited. Because of that, there are high levels of contamination and lead in the blood of Abra Pampa’s residents, particularly the […] -
April 24, 2015
USA: Advocating human rights in the southern border of Texas
As part of the working group on Human Rights and the Border Wall, students wrote a memoexploring possible areas for human rights advocacy in front of the Inter-American Commissionon behalf of a coalition of border residents opposed to the construction of the wall between theU.S. and Mexico. In June 2008, the UT Working Group published […] -
April 24, 2015
IACHR: Study on the pace of adjudication of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The report “Maximizing Justice, Minimizing Delay: Streamlining Procedures of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights” is the result of two years of the Clinic’s work based on statistical analysis and interviews on the duration of the procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. It contains a serious and profound diagnosis of the current backlog […] -
April 24, 2015
WGEID: Supporting the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Students worked on the issue of enforced disappearances. During different semesters Clinic students approached the problem from different perspectives, at times focusing on children, women, the situations in particular countries, or the operations of the Working Group. At times the Working Group has used materials prepared by the Human Rights Clinic about disappearances affecting children […] -
April 24, 2015
Regional: Promoting the Declaration of Principles on Equality in the Americas
After several stages of consultations, a group of human rights and equality experts agreed upon The Declaration of Principles on Equality. The Declaration reflects a moral and professional consensus among these experts. The principles are based on concepts and jurisprudence developed in international, regional and national legal contexts. They are intended to assist the efforts […]
