Events
The Case to Abolish ICE: Human Rights Abuse & Federal Immigration Enforcement
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesFamilies separated. Rife sexual abuse in detention centers. Informants handed over to certain death. Refugees physically tortured and sexually abused. Pregnant women detained. Illegal solitary confinement tactics used. Seven year old children incarcerated for prolonged periods, without access to family contact. Teenagers brutally murdered at the border. Over the last few years, the human rights […]
The Long Arc of Impunity: State Sanctioned Torture and Human Rights Today
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesBlack sites. Enforced disappearances and abduction. Torture. On the 15th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, we have seen little legal accountability for the systematic and extensive human rights abuses which took place as part of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism measures following the attacks of 9/11. American officials responsible for designing and executing torture policies […]
Film Screening and Q&A on Kashmir and Human Rights In India: Blood Leaves Its Trail (Khoon Diy Baarav)
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Human Rights Centre will be screening Blood Leaves Its Trail (Khoon Diy Baarav), a documentary by Iffat Fatima on the thousands of enforced disappearances in Kashmir, and memory as a tool of resistance. The film explores personal narratives and reminiscences ruptured by violence, undermined by erasure and over-ridden by official documents that challenge […]
The Re-Haunting of Indian Punjab
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Human Rights Center presents Mallika Kaur, lawyer and lecturer at Berkeley Law School, as a part of the Partition at 70 and Human Rights lecture series. Only three decades after its bloody Partition of 1947, Indian Punjab spiraled dangerously into a decade of deadly armed conflict between 1984-1994 in which tens of thousands were killed. This talk will […]
India’s Rising Fundamentalism and Its Impact on Dalit and Indigenous Rights
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAs a part of the "Partition @ 70: Human Rights In India" Speaker series, bringing activists, advocates, and civil society members from India to discuss human rights 70 years after independence and partition, the Stanford Human Rights Centre is proud to invite N. Paul Divakar, the Chairperson of the Asia Dalit Rights Forum to Stanford Law School […]
Post-genocidal Guatemala Between Impunity and Institutional Reconstruction
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis conference will examine the achievements and limitations of popular struggles against impunity and corruption in Guatemala, and the opposition of elites and criminal networks to Constitutional reforms necessary for the full implementation of the 1996 Peace Agreements. Interdisciplinary panels of indigenous leaders, human rights activists, lawyers, academics and policymakers from Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, Europe […]
The Future of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Room offsiteAmidst the human rights crisis in the Americas, what role can and should the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights play? Join the discussion (in Spanish) with current members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS) that promotes and protects human rights in the Americas. The […]
Human Rights Under the Next Administration – the View from International Law
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS) that promotes and protects human rights in the Americas. It exercises oversight over the United States, since the U.S. is a member of the OAS. What role might international oversight play to ensure human rights are respected during […]
The Future of Business and Human Rights Law: Consultations with Indigenous Peoples
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA lunchtime discussion featuring Sergio Puig, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the International Economic Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona College of Law Few areas of international practice illustrate the tensions between business and human rights better than the implementation of the duty to consult with indigenous peoples. Based […]
Genocide in Syria
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Law School, Room 190 Co-sponsored by the Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law and the Stanford Human Rights Center RSVP ISIS is committing genocide and other international crimes against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, as determined by the latest report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the […]
Beyond Borders: Central American and Mexican migration to the United States
Bechtel International Center 584 Capistrano Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDuring this U.S.Beyond Borders election cycle, there has been a lot of talk about migration from Mexico to the United States. Mirte Postema, Fellow for Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Prison Reform in the Americas at the Stanford Human Rights Center, Stanford Law School, will address the reasons why people are leaving Central America and […]
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Protection of Human Rights: Building Integrated Networks between Academic, State, and Societal Actors
Room offsiteOn July 6, 2016, SHRC Fellow Mirte Postema and SHRC Senior Affiliate Researcher Claret Vargas participated in the international workshop Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Protection of Human Rights: Building Integrated Networks between Academic, State, and Societal Actors. This workshop took place at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan and was organized by Ayako Nakamura, Assistant Professor […]
A Lawyer at Guantanamo: Reflections on 10 years of representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAs the Obama administration undertakes an effort to release more prisoners, join us for an intimate, thought-provoking account of the challenges of working with, meeting with and advocating on behalf of those imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. Ramzi Kassem is a Professor at CUNY School of Law. Along with his students, he represents men detained at […]
International Discussion Series: The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Legal and Ethical Obligations
Room offsiteSponsored by the Bechtel International Center A lunchtime discussion featuring Mirte Postema, Fellow for Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Prison Reform in the Americas at the Stanford Human Rights Center. Forced displacement has affected millions of people for decades, and the number of people fleeing conflict, generalized violence, political persecution and human rights violations is only increasing. […]
Medical Care Under Fire: International Law in Times of Conflict
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Geneva Conventions regulate the rules of war. They establish that, in principle, medical facilities should be protected during armed conflicts. In recent months, there have been numerous attacks on medical facilities operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan—by the U.S. Air Force—and in Syria and Yemen. Jason Cone, executive director […]
Limits on Free Speech on U.S. Campuses?
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn January 7, 2016, the Stanford Human Rights Center hosted the third and final event in its Speaker Series, Perspectives on the Current Israel-Palestine Conflict. The Israel-Palestine conflict is a complex and sensitive issue that generates strong reactions. Universities should be the ideal environment to discuss this conflict. However, a recent report from the Center for Constitutional Rights […]
Pursuing Justice in Israel: the Rachel Corrie Case
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis event was the second of the Stanford Human Rights Center's Speaker Series, Perspectives on the Current Israel-Palestine Conflict. In March 2003, an Israeli army bulldozer killed Rachel Corrie, a U.S. peace activist, while she sought to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip. Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel’s parents, will […]
Deterrence or revenge? The return of punitive house demolitions in response to recent events in East Jerusalem and the West Bank
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe first event in the Stanford Human Rights Center's Speaker Series, Perspectives on the Current Israel-Palestine Conflict. Punitive house demolitions were routinely practiced by Israel in the Occupied Territories until 2005. In 2014, Israel renewed these demolitions, based on their purported deterrent effect. But has Israel enjoyed greater security in the past two years? The […]
The Ayotzinapa killings and disappearances one year later: the report of the Inter-American Commission’s Expert Group
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSeptember 26th, 2015 will mark the one year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from the Rural Normal School Raúl Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico. On September 5, 2015, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights's Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts published a report at the conclusion of their six-month independent investigation of the Ayotzinapa case. […]
The Future of Transitional Justice: a Roundtable Discussion
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesManning Faculty Lounge, Crown Quadrangle This roundtable will address issues of transitional justice from a comparative perspective, focusing on emblematic transitional efforts across the globe, with an emphasis on Cambodia, South Africa, Kenya, Tunisia, Syria and Latin America. Panelists include: Amb. Christian Wenaweser (Former President of the ICC Assembly of States Parties) Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple […]
Transitional Justice, Gender and the New Human Rights Agenda
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA talk by Felipe Michelini, Universidad de la República School of Law (Montevideo, Uruguay) Felipe Michelini is Professor of Human Rights at the Universidad de la República Law School, Montevideo, Uruguay. He previously led Human Rights Law training at the National Police Academy in Uruguay. He has been a consultant at the U.N. and the […]
Racial Justice as a Human Right
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMobilizing Human Rights Strategies for Racial Justice #SLSforJustice The recent deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have highlighted for many the persistence of racial injustice in the US. Some advocates believe that a human rights framework opens the door to a set of potentially game-changing strategies that can effectively address racial injustice. This panel […]
The New Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC): Challenges and Opportunities in the Defense of Human Rights
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn June 2011, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) established the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) to “promote the civil, political, social and economic rights enshrined in the organisation’s covenants and declarations and in universally agreed human rights instruments, in conformity with Islamic values” (Article 5 OIC Charter). On the one hand, this has […]
The Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan: Blasphemy, Identity and the Politics of Exclusion – a talk by Pakistani jurist Mujeeb-ur-Rahman
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED** Join the Human Rights Center for a discussion with Pakistani Jurist Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, who has argued scores of cases before the Pakistan Supreme Court and who has been at the forefront of the fight for religious liberty in Pakistan for five decades. He will discuss the persecution of the Ahmadi religious […]
Reading the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as an Organic Instrument — A Talk by ICC Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJudge Eboe-Osuji began his term as Judge at the ICC on 11 March 2012. He previously served as the Legal Advisor to the then-UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Dr Navi Pillay, with cross-appointment as Principal Appeals Counsel for the Prosecution in the Charles Taylor Case at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). He […]