ICCPR Forum
The Human Rights Clinic and the ACLU-FL are hosting a forum on the upcoming review by the United Nations Human Rights Committee of the United States' compliance with its treaty obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Come learn about national and local efforts by civil society in the US to promote human rights at home.

When: September 23, 2013
12:30-2:00 pm
Where: University of Miami Law Library
Room D201

Thursday, Sept 26 at 5:30-7:30
Faculty Meeting Room
(4th floor in the law library)
"A Conversation on The Future of International Environmental Law" featuring Dan Magraw, distinguished international environmental lawyer and Jim Nickel, UM Professor of Philosophy and Law.
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Monday, Sept 30 at 5:30-6:30
Law Campus Room E-352
"Destroying What We Seek to Protect: Interrogation, Values and U.S. Foreign Policy" -- Louis Henkin Lecture on Human Rights; Speaker: Alberto Mora, JD '81, Former General Counsel to the Navy.
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Caroline Bettinger-López, former Deputy Director of the Human Rights Institute and Acting Director of the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School runs the Human Rights Clinic. Read article about Bettinger-López joining Miami Law.

Watch video and presentation of Bettinger- López discussing the clinic.

Learn more about Human Rights opportunities at Miami Law.

The ACLU delivers a statement on behalf of several groups at UNHRC urging US government to refrain from deporting Haitians (July 4, 2012)

Professor Caroline Bettinger-Lopez discusses the Miami Law Clinics' work on deportations to Haiti on Pacifica Radio (January 12, 2012)

Miami Law's Human Rights Clinic and Haitian Women of Miami Urge End to Haiti Deportations (June 6, 2012)

More Human Rights Clinic news

Learn more about the Gender Justice Convening co-hosted by HRC in February 2011.

Learn more about Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States

The Immigration Clinic and the Human Rights Clinic began a collaborative effort to halt deportations in view of the ongoing effects of the January 2010 earthquake. Read more about this project.

View our Congressional briefing flyer (March 2012) with the latest updates on Haitian deportations.

IIn Fall 2011, the Human Rights Clinic began working on the project of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in Canada with partner organizations the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA).

View the clinic's briefing paper to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for our thematic hearing on March 28, 2012 on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls in British Columbia, Canada.

View the video of the hearing

Read a Miami Law article about the Human Rights Clinic's trip to Washington, DC

See more photos of the Human Rights Clinic in action on Flickr.

Miami Law Human Rights Clinic students with Professor Bettinger-López

Miami Law Human Rights Clinic students Lea Dartevelle and Miya Patel discuss the plight of Haitian deportees from the U.S. with a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) at UNHCR headquarters in Washington, DC.

See more photos of the Human Rights Clinic in action on Flickr.