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Challenging discrimination against LGBTQIA+ persons in Texas (2024)
Proposing a New UN Special Procedure on Sports and Human Rights (2023)
Securing Memory, Truth, Reparation, and Justice for the Disappeared in Argentina (2022)
Ensuring Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Freedom from Gender-Based Violence for Women and Young People with Disabilities in the Pacific Region (2022)
Rights of Transgender Persons in Texas (2020)
Austin Police Shootings During Mental Health Calls
Promoting the Development of the Right to Memory
Fortalecimiento de las medidas cautelares de la CIDH / Strengthening the IACHR’s Precautionary Measures
Denial of the Whereabouts of Detainees as a Method of Enforced Disappearance in Venezuela
Promoting the Right to Health of Persons living with HIV/AIDS in Guatemala
Bringing Human Rights and Business Principles to Texas
Human rights abuses and state complicity in Coahuila, Mexico
Media Advisory – Disappearances in Mexico/ Aviso de Prensa: Desapariciones Forzadas en Mexico
Human rights abuses in the context of the imposition of the death penalty in Texas
USA: Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons
USA: Freedom from Domestic Violence as a Human Right in Travis County and Austin, Texas
Argentina: Advocacy campaign on the right to health and to a healthy environment in Abra Pampa, Argentina
USA: Advocating human rights in the southern border of Texas
IACHR: Study on the pace of adjudication of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
WGEID: Supporting the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Regional: Promoting the Declaration of Principles on Equality in the Americas
Students travel all over the world on behalf of Human Rights Clinic
Guatemala: Access to information for Human Rights abuses in Guatemala
USA: Arbitrary Detention in Guantanamo (Fall 2012)
USA: Implementation of IACHR Decisions in the U.S.
Regional: Human Rights abuses by extractive industries
Mexico: Environmental Activists
IACHR: Rights of the Child
Costa Rica: El Diquis Hydroelectric Project
Haiti: Fleury v. Haiti
Indonesia: Indigenous People’s Rights
United Nations: Poverty and Human Rights
Regional: Corporate Complicity and Legal Accountability
Ghana: Communities Affected by Mining in the Tarkwa Region
Kenya: Pre-trial Detention and Right to Health
Panama: Addressing Racial Profiling
Right to Food in Yemen
United Nations: Disputes among minority groups: UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues
Regional: Choosing a forum for the Protection of Women’s Rights
Cambodia: Collective Reparations
Honduras: Supporting litigation of Garífunas lands claims at the IACHR
OAS: Draft Inter-American Convention against Racism
United Nations: Background Paper for the UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues
Brazil: Protecting collective rights of the Quilombo community and challenging racial discrimination
Ecuador: Documenting and reconstructing historical memory and access to information: The Ecuadorian Truth Commission
Guatemala: Securing labor rights in rural areas
Honduras: Using international law to fulfill orders by the Court
Peru: Prosecuting former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori for human rights abuses
