Educating a Different Kind of Lawyer
Jessica Brock, NDLS ’10, is spending the summer in Kampala, Uganda as an HIV and Human Rights Intern for UNAIDS. Her work has included review of the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, drafted by the Uganda Law Reform Commission (ULRC). Read More
“Earth Day 2009: A Human Right to a Decent Environment?”
Does international law recognize a human right to a decent environment? Should it?
The question is more complicated than it might seem. The concept of human rights is human-centered. For the law to protect the environment, by declaring it a human right, could be understood to mean that the case for our planet turns on whether it happens to accommodate us. Read More
As part of its Advisory Committee Meeting, the CCHR will present a panel discussion entitled “The Obama Administration’s Record on Human Rights and Terrorism: The First Sixty Days”. Panelists include Steven M. Watt, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Human Rights Program and graduate of the Center for Civil and Human Rights LL.M. program and Doug Cassel, Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights. The presentation will begin at 3:00 p.m. and will be held in the Faculty Meeting Room (Room 2130) in the Eck Hall of Law. Read More
BBC News – UK
… by a giant open-pit gold mine located in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. … Besides the rashes, Goldcorp has been accused by some Guatemalan … > Read Story Read More
Ishmael Beah, former child soldier of Sierra Leone and author of “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.” will deliver a lecture of the same name at the University of Notre Dame at 7 p.m. March 16 (Monday) in the McKenna Hall auditorium. For complete story, go to http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=31768 Read More
Guatemala: Canadian Mining Company under Scrutiny
While industries in the global economy continue to struggle, there is one industry, other than oil, that’s having blockbuster profits; it’s the gold mining industry. As waffling financial markets force cautious investors run to precious metals, gold’s value continues to skyrocket. Read More
The panel is designed to encourage open discussion and questions about unions in a worker-friendly atmosphere. Read More
“Justice for Cambodia’s Killing Fields?”
Too little, too late, too suspect – but better than nothing, perhaps: the first of five planned trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders is set to begin next week in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.
If ever crimes cried out for justice, the Killing Fields of Cambodia are near the top of the list. During a four-year reign of terror three decades ago, Khmer Rouge lunacy led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people — one fifth of Cambodia’s entire population. Two hundred thousand victims were executed. The rest died from starvation and disease. Read More
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Archdiocese of Gulu, Uganda
Archbishop John Baptist Odama has played a prominent role in promoting peace and reconciliation amidst one of the world’s most gruesome conflicts. He has been instrumental in moving forward the peace process and serves as an official observer in that process. He has been outspoken in proposing indigenous alternatives to war crimes indictments, alternatives that would ensure accountability while promoting reconciliation. He has joined other Christian and Muslim leaders in pursuing these and other peacebuilding activities through the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative. Read More
ACLU, BLSA, Center for Civil & Human Rights, Int’l Human Rights Society, & Woman’s Legal Forum present…
A Symposium and Film Festival on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Victims of Armed Conflict Read More
Featuring Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh and Krystal Mason, Peace Brigades International
4:15 pm
Tuesday, January 27
C-103 Hesburgh Center
This lecture will highlight the critical work of Peace Brigades International, especially its efforts in Nepal related to human rights and the country’s transition from monarchy to republic. Read More
“A New Administration, and A New Day for Human Rights”
One of the first tasks of the Obama Administration – to restore our national honor and reclaim our national values – is beginning to take visible shape. Read More
“Corruption: Corroding Democracy, Stifling Economies”
To judge by public perceptions, the United States is far from the most corrupt country in the world. Of 180 nations rated by Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2008, the US ranks as the 18th least corrupt.
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The Center for Civil and Human Rights congratulates Pablo Saavedra Alessandri, a 1996 Notre Dame LLM graduate, who this week was reelected to a second five-year term as Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. According to the Court’s press release, the judges agreed on Saavedra’s reelection base on his outstanding performance during his first term as Executive Secretary, from 2003-2008. Read More
On Friday, Nov. 14, Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) will host the Hon. Juan Guzman, the retired Chilean judge who became internationally famous for being the first judge to prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, and Ambassador Richard Williamson, President Bush’s special envoy to Sudan. Guzman will speak in room 105 of the Law School at 12:10 p.m., and Williamson will speak in room 105 at 2:00 p.m. Read More
Farnoosh Hashemian, MPH, lead author of above mentioned Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) report “Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact” will present her findings. According to PHR, the groundbreaking report presents for the first time medical evidence to confirm first-hand accounts of mend who endured torture by US personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. None of the tortured men were ever charged with a crime. Read More
Obama Presidency and Human Rights
Today, Amnesty International urged President-elect Obama to make a clean break with alleged human rights abuses of the Bush Administration. The human rights organization has requested an early meeting with the President-elect to discuss the new administration’s human rights agenda. Read More
“Venezuela’s Chávez: Expelling Human Rights Watch”
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who is nothing if not a charmer, has succeeded in seducing many of my friends in the democratic left in Europe and the Americas. His formula is simple: denounce the gringos, embrace the poor, add charisma, and stir. Read More
A new book titled “Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact,” includes essays by major business leaders and scholars—including Notre Dame Law School’s Douglass Cassel and Sean O’Brien—who discuss the issues presented by the United Nations Global Compact, including the impact of commerce in promoting peace and the benefits of global economic development through voluntary corporate policies and actions. Read More
On Monday, Sept. 15, Muthee Kiunga, a post-doctoral research associate for Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) will present “Beyond Darfur: Conflict and Human Rights in Southern and Eastern Sudan.” The talk begins at 12:15 in room 101 of the Law School. Read More
The reaction of the United States to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, particularly the authorization of torture and secret detention, has greatly depleted the power of already strained international institutions, and Mary Ellen O’Connell would like to do something about that.
In her new book, “The Power and Purpose of International Law,” published by Oxford University Press, O’Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at Notre Dame, opposes the recently revived arguments about the impotence of international law and its inapplicability to the United States. Read More
“International Labor Standards: More Effective Protection for Workers”
Economic globalization pushes up profits for transnational companies, but drags down real wages and benefits, as well as the bargaining power of labor, in the formerly industrialized nations of the North. Offsetting benefits for workers in developing nations have not made up for this loss, largely because labor regulation in the global South is toothless. Read More
Mario Domingo ’08 LL.M. has done what no other Guatemalan has ever accomplished: he put Guatemalan military officers behind bars for human rights violations. His work and his life are profiled in the Summer issue of Notre Dame Magazine. Read More
Former Bosnian Serb President Karadzic Arrested
It’s been 13 years since the warrants were issued for the arrest of former leader of the Bosnia’s “Republika Srpska”.
NATO was in Bosnia for 10 years yet Allied forces failed to find Karadic. He’s apparently been settled in Belgrade practicing alternative medicine [under the name Dragan Dabic] for sometime. Read More
On April 26, 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi of Guatemala was found dead in his garage, bludgeoned to death by a chunk of concrete. Mario Domingo—a 2008 graduate of the LL.M. program in international and human rights law at Notre Dame Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights—prosecuted the case. Since then, Novelist Francisco Goldman has published an acclaimed book on the trial titled “The Art of Political Murder.” The book, the author, and the actors involved are the subject of a story in the July 7 edition of “The Nation.” Read More
The Center for Civil and Human Rights (CCHR) has joined the Notre Dame Haiti Program to launch a joint project on health and human rights in Haiti. The yearlong project is headed by Haitian lawyer Jean-Marc Brissau, a graduate of the CCHR’s LL.M. program in international human rights law. Read More
“Peru’s Former President Fujimori In the Dock”
A decade ago, as an advisor to the United States delegation to the annual meeting of the Organization of American States in Lima, Peru, I listened in amazement to a “welcoming” address by Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. Haughty, arrogant and dismissive of international qualms about his human rights record, Fujimori lectured the visiting diplomats for failing to understand Peruvian reality. Read More
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