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For the past decade, a wall of wire and fencing has stood between two neighboring cultures — a physical divide between U.S. Latinos and their heritage.

The prison system in the United States equates to a modern-day slavery due to its targeting of racial and ethnic minorities. There are 2.2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails, which am...

The Clinic researched the capital punishment system in Texas, detailing the chronic overuse of solitary confinement on Texas’ death rows.

Check out photos from our recent forum/workshop on "Certifying Human Rights in Global Supply Chains."

An enraged young Lebanese activist, Ahmad Amhaz, was detained in March over this Facebook status: “Three kinds of animals currently rule our country: a donkey, a crocodile and a third whose kind is...

Considering the most recent release of information by WikiLeaks, and the ongoing 2016 election investigation, it seems as apt a time as ever to reevaluate the right of privacy and how far it truly...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been subject to significant criticism regarding the absence of participatory mechanisms that allow societal actors to intervene in the inter-American...

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination released a statement in 2000 that acknowledged “the place of the Roma communities [is] among those most disadva...

Harvard Law School will host a book launch on March 21st featuring authors Helena Alviar, Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller, and Samuel Moyn. Intro by David Kennedy.

On a night usually reserved for celebrating Hollywood elites, human rights violations around the world were featured front and center in several winner’s acceptance speeches. Especially in the...