As global human rights issues become increasingly urgent, law schools across the United States are stepping up to prepare the next generation of advocates. The Human Rights Law Honor Roll for 2025, ...

While many of his law school peers were pursuing careers in corporate law, Andres Perez (LAW ’04) felt called to a a different path: international criminal law and human rights. This is what led him ...

Dr. Ganna Yudkivska is a force to be reckoned with in the world of international law and human rights. Her impressive career trajectory originated in a newly independent Ukraine and has since spanned ...

(Nairobi) – Human Rights Watch released a question and answer document today that explains how international humanitarian law applies to the armed conflict in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF ...

International law is by nature multilateral. Its ontology is universal and cannot be interpreted or applied selectively, today this way, tomorrow somewhat differently — or not at all. In some cases ...

Over the past year, cluster munitions—weapons banned by a majority of the world’s countries—have killed or injured hundreds of civilians in Ukraine. Their use, which began the first day of Russia’s ...

Exceptionalism is an expression of the aninmus dominandi of powerful nations who refuse to submit to established rules of human coexistence and reject customary international law. Instead, these ...

Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news. A coalition of human rights groups urged the United Nations to take “urgent” action against abortion bans in the U.S., arguing in ...

Last month, Pakistan’s caretaker government issued an ultimatum to all undocumented immigrants, including some 1.73 Afghan nationals: leave the country voluntarily, or face expulsion. The deadline was ...

Almost 200 human rights organizations from around the world on Thursday urged the United Nations to intervene to protect reproductive rights in the United States, accusing the country of violating ...

In just one week, President Donald Trump has launched the most systemic and aggressive assault on human rights in U.S. presidential history. While the first Trump administration made similar attempts ...