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The Rapoport Center Working Paper Series is currently accepting papers! Authors from all disciplines and institutions are welcome to submit papers on any topic related to human rights.

Human rights policy can have a boomerang effect on issues outside of its traditional sphere, according to an expert on economic inequality and social injustice.

Ricardo Velasco reflects on his work as a Berta Cáceres Fellow, undertaking fieldwork with the Sustainable Settlements for Peace in Isla Grande, Islas del Rosario and in Filandia, Colombia.

Inequality, Human Rights and Labor Fellow Lissette Almanza reflects on her summer at the Solidarity Center in Washington DC.

This paper, by Franziska Brachthäuser, discusses forms of interpretation and implementation of reparations in international criminal law.

Elizabeth Schmelzel explores how immigration precarity is produced by a confluence of legal exclusions, including a lack of access to counsel.

Congratulations to former Steering Committee member, Barbara Hines, for winning this year’s Ohtli Award from the Government of Mexico!

This article explores alternative ideas of territorial governance and the reimagining of human rights by local communities in Cauca, Colombia.

This paper analyzes how US immigration law exacerbates the precarity of immigrants’ work in ways that demonstrate that insecure work is not a function of the neoliberal economic system alone.

Published by Cambridge University Press, the book uses case studies drawn from nineteen Latin American countries over forty years to reveal the ideas behind the new systems of constitutional justice.