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HRC students Miraisy Rodriguez, Farrah Elchahal, and Monika Siwiec publish op-ed on violence against women in The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald (March 2011)

The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Deportations of Haitians Resumes with Guests Caroline Bettinger-Lopez and Farrin Anello (see minutes 42-52)

IntLawGrrls Guest Blogger Beatriz Carta Wagman on US Deportations Imperil Haitians (Apr. 30, 2011)

Island TV segment on advocacy before the Inter-American Commission to stop Haitian deportations with activist Marleine Bastien and Miami Law Human Rights Clinic students Beatriz Carta Wagman and Miya Patel (Mar. 11, 2011): www.islandtv.tv/?p=247 (see minutes 21-32; in Haitian Creole & English)

The Miami Herald: Halt Haitian Deportations (Apr. 17, 2011)

Deportations to Haiti: Still a Death Sentence By Vince Warren, Carrie Bettinger-Lopez and Sunita Patel (Apr. 8, 2011)

Human Rights Clinic Partners With Local Community Organizations To Plan U.N. Special Rapporteur's South Florida Visit (Jan. 28, 2011)

NY Times: After Long Fight, Farmworkers in Florida Win an Increase in Pay (Jan. 18, 2011)

In an interview on National Public Radio, Director Carrie Bettinger-Lopez discusses how deporting Haitians will lead to human rights violations

Supporters Join Miami Law To Stop Deportations To Haiti One Year After The Earthquake (Jan. 12, 2011)

Miami Law Clinics File Petition To Stop Deportations of Haitians (Jan. 6, 2011)

Human Rights Clinic Partners with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers on New Fair Food CROP Project (Dec. 2010)

MEET OUR DIRECTOR

Caroline Bettinger-López, former Deputy Director of the Human Rights Institute and Acting Director of the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, has joined Miami Law to run the Human Rights Clinic. Read more

Read article about Carrie Bettinger-López and the Human Rights Clinic

HUMAN RIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES

Learn more about Human Rights opportunities at Miami Law.

IN THE NEWS

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)

HRC student Liam McGivern Awarded Skadden Fellowship (December 27, 2011)

U.S. Deportees to Haiti Face Horrific Conditions (November 13, 2011)

More Human Rights Clinic news

HUMAN RIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES

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

JESSICA LENAHAN (GONZALES) V. U.S.

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

STOPPING DEPORTATIONS TO HAITI

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

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

MISSING AND MURDERED ABORIGINAL WOMEN AND GIRLS IN CANADA

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

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 March 28, 2012 IACHR Thematic Hearing

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

VIDEO

PHOTOS

See 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.

A Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic student and lawyer from the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) interview a client in Anse-a-Pitre, Haiti concerning his human rights case against the Dominican government for mass expulsions of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent.

Migrant farmworkers celebrate after Whole Foods Markets, the leading natural and organic foods supermarket, announced that two of Florida's largest organic tomato growers, Lady Moon Farms and Alderman Farms, agreed to implement the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) "penny-per-pound" program designed to improve wages for tomato harvesters. (June 2009, from http://www.nesri.org)