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The Center for Human Rights and International Justice welcomed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on February 14 to deliver keynote remarks reflecting on the role of human rights frameworks in guiding tech companies, governments,…

As the culmination of his appointment as a Visiting Senior Fellow this summer, Faculty Co-Director David Cohen was honored to deliver the S.T. Lee Distinguished Annual Lecture at Singapore’s S. Rajarantnam School of International Studies at the…

General Masaharu Homma, a Japanese officer charged with war crimes, testifies in his own defense at his trial held in the High Commissioner’s residence in...

Michael Eastman, a researcher for the Center's Virtual Tribunals Initiative, recently returned from an exciting and fruitful scoping trip he undertook to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland. The trip…

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Professor Tendayi Achiume delivered the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice’s 2023 Annual Lecture on International Justice. Achiume’s lecture, titled, “Race, Justice, and International Law,” described the past and present…

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice recently hosted a discussion entitled “New Directions in Genocide Studies,” which featured three scholars contributing to intellectual innovation in the field of genocide studies. 

Stanford Human Rights Minor, Ananya Karthik, has been selected as a 2023-24 John Gardner Fellow by the Haas Center for Public Service. As a Computer Science and Political Science major, Ananya is deeply interested in the intersection of human…

Stanford Human Rights Minor, Gabby Crooks, has been selected as a recipient of the 2023-24 Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy by the Haas Center for Public Service. As an emerging scholar, Gabby is passionate about human rights, in both domestic…

Stanford Human Rights Minor, Kyra Jasper, has been named a 2023 Marshall Scholar and will be pursuing her graduate studies at the University of London and the London School of Economics. The Marshall Scholarship offers financial support to…

The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT) is now available as the result of a partnership between the Stanford Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and…

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice recently held a discussion entitled “Toward Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Oceans,” which elevated the work of the Indonesian Ocean Justice Initiative to advocate for sustainable and…

Fifteen seniors affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and International Justice have won the Stanford Alumni Association's Award of Excellence. Created to recognize the top 10% of the class, the Award of Excellence honors graduating seniors…

Recent Human Rights graduate April Ball '22 has earned a Fulbright Award to study in Madrid, Spain, where she will study the cultural and religious identities of second generation Moroccan Muslim women. April will also be working with a local…

Human Rights Minor Karen Chen was selected to be a U.S. Fulbright Research Scholar in South Korea. She will be developing corneal transplant alternatives to treat blindness in the developing world through research with the Koh Lab at Yonsei…

Human Rights student Maria Clara Rodrigues da Silva recently won the 2022 Kennedy Prize in Social Science Research and a Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. These prizes are awarded to the top undergraduate honors theses…

Stanford Human Rights Minor and human rights summer fellow Maggie Roache has been named a 2022 Ford Fellow by the Haas Center for Public Service. Maggie’s passion for international human rights issues, particularly related to transitional justice…

Norman Farrell, current Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, recently gave the Center’s Annual Lecture on International Justice, titled “International Criminal Law, its Legal Framework and its Application in Ukraine." Mr. Farrell (L…

Marshall Ganz, the 2022 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor and preeminent scholar on leadership, narrative, strategy, and organization in social movements, recently sat down for a conversation with a small group of students and staff in…

United Nations clinical psychologists Nenna Ndukwe, Sarah Alcalay, and Chinedu Ezemokwe recently joined the Center for Human Rights and International Justice for a talk co-hosted with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies entitled “Ensuring a…

The Haas Center’s 2022 Social Entrepreneurs in Residence at Stanford (SEERS) fellows recently joined the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, the Graduate School of Education, the Haas Center for Public Service, and the Program on…

Traci Parker, an Associate Professor in the W.E.B Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an External Faculty Fellow at Stanford University, recently joined the Center for Human Rights and…