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January 22, 2024
Challenging discrimination against LGBTQIA+ persons in Texas (2024)
The Clinic partnered with Equality Texas to support their efforts to secure justice and full equality for transgender and LGBTQIA+ people in Texas. During fall 2023, the Clinic prepared a Joint Allegation Letter demonstrating how laws passed by the Texas Legislature violate several human rights such as equality and non-discrimination, privacy, dignity, freedom of expression, […] -
December 4, 2023
Proposing a New UN Special Procedure on Sports and Human Rights (2023)
For the past two semesters, Clinic students have researched the current UN framework for addressing the relationship between human rights and sports. The Clinic published a white paper, A New Referee: The Need for a New Special Procedure on Human Rights and Sports, proposing that the UN create a new special procedure focused on sports […] -
January 31, 2023
Securing Memory, Truth, Reparation, and Justice for the Disappeared in Argentina (2022)
During the spring 2022 semester, the Clinic prepared a brief to request the reopening of the case related to the enforced disappearance of Alicia Irene “Moni” Naymark Gabe. Moni was kidnapped by the security forces of Argentina in November 1976 and never seen again. Her case was submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, […] -
January 30, 2023
2022: Clinic students worked closely with Women Enabled International (WEI) and its partners to conduct a needs assessment for Fiji to identify primary barriers that prevent women and young people with disabilities from accessing sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence (GBV) services. This needs assessment included a desk review of relevant laws, policies, surveys, […] -
June 19, 2022
Uruguay quiere imitar el sistema carcelario de Texas, acusado de repetidas violaciones a los derechos humanos -
November 30, 2020
Report: A Texas Code Violates The Human Rights Of Transgender People With Felonies
Report: A Texas Code Violates The Human Rights Of Transgender People With Felonies -
November 16, 2020
The Human Rights Clinic collaborated with the Austin Community Law Center and Trans Pride Initiative to address the harms that transgender incarcerated people face within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Texas Family Code 45.103 restricts the ability of incarcerated persons from changing their name. The Clinic sent surveys to 300+ transgender incarcerated persons to […] -
September 27, 2019
New report alleges that “Austin Police shootings during mental health calls violate human rights.”
New report alleges that “Austin Police shootings during mental health calls violate human rights.” [Video] -
September 25, 2019
The Clinic collaborated with the Austin Community Law Clinic in addressing the way with which the Austin Police Department (APD) responds to mental health-related calls for service. Currently, APD has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal police shootings of people suffering from mental health issues. This was documented in a September […]
