Tag: International Organization Projects

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 […]

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 […]

The Human Rights Clinic conducted extensive research through interviews with human rights workers and produced a report aimed at strengthening the Rapporteurship on the Rights of the Child (RRC), part of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, by capitalizing on its existing core competencies to augment its position as an advocate for children’s rights in […]

Students conducted research on the ways poverty leads to exclusion from society, institutional practices and obstacles that limit those in poverty’s participation in society, and how to improve those institutions’ practices in order to allow and encourage this participation. The study was prepared for the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.

The United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues asked the Clinic to prepare a brief on the dispute between two minority groups. The Clinic researched the historical background of the dispute, the legal arguments and current situation. The document contains an analysis of the dispute based on the human rights framework and proposes different courses […]

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 […]