Release of HRP’s 2023-2024 Annual Report – Harvard Law School
Release of HRP’s 2023-2024 Annual Report We are pleased to present HRP’s 2023-2024 Annual Report. The report showcases the global reach and impact of the Human Rights Program in the year of its 40th anniversary, featuring work on African perspectives on climate change law, a new UN draft declaration on the rights of people of […]
Brazil Bans X from Using Children to Power Its AI
This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its child users in Brazil to train its artificial intelligence (AI). The data regulator also banned X from sharing children’s personal data with third parties to train generative AI and ordered the company to amend […]
Recurring floods in Sudan displace refugees and their host communities
Nyalan Goldit, 37, stands in the remains of the shelter she once called home. First, conflict forced her to flee her country, and now floods have displaced her from the home where she hoped to find a new beginning. She lost most of her belongings in the heavy flooding that swept through Sudan’s White Nile State […]
2024-25 Tiruchelvam Fellow: Thyagi Ruwanpathirana – Harvard Law School
2024-25 Tiruchelvam Fellow: Thyagi Ruwanpathirana The Human Rights Program and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School are thrilled to welcome the inaugural Neelan Tiruchelvam Fellow, Thyagi Ruwanpathirana. Thyagi comes to Harvard Law School from Amnesty International, where she served as a South Asia Regional Researcher since 2018. […]
Egypt: Asylum Bill Threatens Refugee Rights
Update: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed the draft asylum bill into law and it was published in the Official Gazette on December 17, 2024. (Beirut) – Egypt’s draft asylum law, if enacted, risks violating the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said today. The law would hinder the work of United Nations agencies and […]
Drought brings life-threatening food shortages for refugees in Ethiopia
Samira Abdi fixes worried eyes on her six-year-old son as a nurse lays him gently in a weighing basin at a nutrition centre in the Melkadida refugee camp in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region. Samira brought him and another of her children here after they suffered weeks of stomach pains, but she already knows what torments […]
Release of Consultation Proceedings on Rights of People of African Descent – Harvard Law School
October 31, 2024 Release of Consultation Proceedings on Rights of People of African Descent We are delighted to share the release of the proceedings and written submissions of the Expert Consultation on the Draft UN Declaration on the Human Rights of People of African Descent, a significant convening organized by the UN Permanent Forum on […]
Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza
Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza by intentionally depriving Palestinian civilians there of adequate access to water, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths. In doing so, Israeli authorities are responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for […]
Baseball club brings a bit of home to Venezuelan refugee and migrant kids in Peru
A baseball training club in Lima gives young Venezuelans a second chance at their dreams of one day going professional. Source link
HRP Celebrates 40th Anniversary – Harvard Law School
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