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HRP Visiting Fellow Conducts U.S. Country Visit for UN
HRP Senior Visiting Researcher and UN Independent Expert for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (IE SOGI) Victor Madrigal-Borloz completed a 10-day visit investigating the state of LGBT rights in the USA in August. Having visited Washington DC, Birmingham, Miami and San Diego, the IE SOGI found that LGBT rights in the USA were under a "concerted attack".
Madrigal-Borloz stated: “I am deeply alarmed by a widespread, profoundly negative riptide created by deliberate actions to roll back the human rights of LGBT people at state level.” He further called upon the U.S. government to bolster its support for LGBT rights across the nation.
You can find more information in the related press release from the the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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- Reminder: Next Thursday at 12:30pm -
Book Launch: Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order
Thursday, September 22, 2022
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. ET
Registration under this Zoom link.
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On September 22 at 12:30pm ET, HRP is organizing a virtual book launch and discussion of the edited volume “Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order” (Brookings, 2022). Edited by Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, the volume addresses a range of challenges affecting the international human rights system and provides policy recommendations. The volume contributions, some of which were authored by the panelists, cover emerging challenges and provide policy recommendations on how best to respond to them in order to shore up the global rights regime.
Speakers:
- Alexander Cooley is the Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University and an Academy Adjunct Faculty member at Chatham House.
- Solomon Ayele Dersso is a member and former Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and chairs the Commission’s working groups on indigenous populations and minorities and on extractive industries and the environment.
- Aslı Ü. Bâli is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Prior to that, she was a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where she served as the founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights.
Moderator: Gerald L. Neuman is the Director of the Human Rights Program, and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School.
Co-sponsored by the HLS Advocates for Human Rights.
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Human Rights and Humanitarian Law:
Just the Basics
Monday, September 19, 2022
12:20 - 1:15 p.m. ET
WCC 2012
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A crash course in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, led by the experts. Perfect for 1Ls or anyone interested in learning more about international law through an advocacy lens. Professor Gerald Neuman, director of the Human Rights Program, and Dustin Lewis, Research Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict will present. No experience necessary!
Organized by Advocates for Human Rights. Co-sponsored by HRP and the Harvard International Law Journal.
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