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Center for Human Rights and International Justice Director of Human Trafficking Research Jessie Brunner recently returned from an energizing week of convenings of key business leaders, anti-trafficking practitioners, policymakers, researchers,…
Center researcher and Stanford University Libraries historian Michael Eastman is the winner of the 2025 Chief of Naval Operations History Award! Eastman, previously a South African human rights lawyer, wrote an essay on the United States…
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice was pleased to offer its 14th iteration of the Human Rights Careers Intensive (HRCI) this Fall, a program originally piloted in 2018 in partnership with Stanford Career Education. Every…
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is delighted to share that Distinguished Fellow Dr. Beth Van Schaack was recently named a Commissioner with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), a prominent global body dedicated to…
This spring, four Human Rights minors were recognized with prestigious awards from the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service. The 2025 recipients – Aleena Anand, Enrique Flores, Makayla Abril Butters, and Dora Plascencia Macias – exemplify a…
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice, the Center for African Studies, the Program in International Relations, and Stanford Global Studies were honored to host a student lunch roundtable with Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first…
Kira Kay, Executive Director of the Bureau for International Reporting (BIR), delivered the Center for Human Rights and International Justice’s 2025 Annual Lecture on International Justice on May 20, titled “Journalism’s Role in International…
Stanford Human Rights Minor alum (Class of 2022) and Human Rights Summer Fellow Alexandra Koch was recently named a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholar and will be returning to the Farm next academic year to pursue her JD at Stanford Law School.…
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is honored to welcome back Dr. Beth Van Schaack to Stanford as a Distinguished Fellow. Van Schaack recently stepped down from her post as the United States’ sixth Ambassador-at-Large for…
A flagship collaboration of the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice was featured in the Stanford Report this week.
Center Faculty Co-Director David Cohen and Associate Director of Strategy and Program…
In collaboration with Stanford Global Studies, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice hosted the “Careers in International Law” panel on November 14, 2024. The panel — which brought Center Associate Director Penelope Van Tuyl into…
Center Associate director Jessie Brunner (left) moderates a student-facing discussion on forced labor with international experts.
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice hosted a lunch panel with international academic experts on the topic of combating exploitation and forced labor in global supply chains in conjunction with a convening of the Re:…
Launched in April 2021 with the mission of combating severe labor exploitation in global supply chains through business model innovation, the Re:Structure Lab recently received a second round of funding from the Ford Foundation, Humanity United…
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s appeals chamber in Leidschendam in the Netherlands.
When the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) closed down at the end of 2023, historians and practitioners of international law were left to wonder: Who will preserve its legacy? Just seven months later, an interdisciplinary team from…
Alongside Stanford’s McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice recently co-sponsored “Brazil: Challenges & Progress,” a panel discussion exploring critical education, climate, and labor-…
As further evidence of her amazing spirit and commitment to Stanford, Center for Human Rights and International Justice Associate Director Penelope Van Tuyl was one of three recipients of the 2024 Amy J. Blue Award. The award is named after an…
On the heels of the global community marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the cornerstone document in the history of human rights, Stanford’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice commemorates its…
In the Stanford Center's 2024 Annual Lecture on Human Rights on May 14, famed international human rights lawyer Jared Genser explored a daunting new arena where technological advancement stands to both challenge and promote human rights: our own…
Professor Beth Simmons of the University of Pennsylvania delivered the Center for Human Rights and International Justice’s 2024 Annual Lecture on International Justice on April 9, titled “From Barriers to Abuse: International Border Hardening and…