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• November 09: Prof. Cassel Addresses Organization of American States
• October 23: Prof. Cassel in Chicago Tribune: Return democracy to Honduras
• October 21: Prof. Cassel participates in a briefing to the U.S. Congress

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The Pursuit of Human Rights

Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights offers the J.S.D. in International Human Rights Law and the LL.M. in International Human Rights Law. The Center’s academic programs provide J.D., LL.M. and J.S.D. students from around the world the opportunity to study human rights from the perspective of the international legal process. Because it is one of the few U.S. law schools to do this, the Center provides leadership in the field of human rights. > Read More

CCHR News

Notre Dame Law Professor Doug Cassel, Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, continues to be a leading voice in the national and international debate over the recent coup d’etat in Honduras. This week he debates prominent Honduran American lawyer Miguel Estrada at Georgetown Law School on Wednesday, while on Thursday he participates in a briefing in the U.S. Congress, together with José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch and former Honduran Foreign Minister Ernesto Paz Aguilar. > Read More

Events

Panel discussion on Goldstone Report – Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:15 p.m. in Room C103 Hesburgh Center

Earlier this year, the United Nations Human Rights Council established an international independent fact-finding mission chaired by Justice Richard Goldstone, former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The mission’s mandate was to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international law during the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip. In September, the group released their findings.

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, international expert in the Law of Armed Conflicts, will analyze the process, present the report and comment on its conclusions. In addition, Sonia Boulos (NDLS J.S.D candidate from Palestine) and Ziad Abdel (NDLS LL.M. candidate from Egypt) will speak on some possible avenues and strategies for follow up at the national and international level.

Iran, the muslim world and human rights
December 1, 2009 at 12:30pm – 1:45pm
Location: Room 1130

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Independent International Panel

The Center for Civil & Human Rights has formed an independent international panel to conduct a human rights impact assessment of gold mining operations at the Goldcorp Inc. Marlin Mine in San Marcos, Guatemala. > Read More