Recent News

By Rachael Ku, Student Assistant.

 

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice recently screened the film Eminent Monsters, a Hopscotch Films documentary tracing the history of western psychological torture. Eminent…

By Isabel Vasquez, Student Assistant.

 

Noah Bullock, executive director of human rights NGO Cristosal, recently spoke to a Stanford audience about the state of human rights in Central America’s Northern Triangle (encompassing…

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice congratulates Scott Williamson, Mariana Castrellon, and Callie Ward for their exceptional work and is pleased to name them the winners of our new Dissertation writing Fellowships. This funding…

By Isabel Vasquez, Student Assistant.

 

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice and the Center for Latin American Studies recently hosted immigrant rights advocate Casey Miller for an engaging discussion of what…

By Isabel Vasquez, Student Assistant.

The Center for Human Rights & International Justice recently wrapped up its autumn Human Rights Careers Intensive. This seminar provided a small cohort of twelve students a community in which to…

Our office will be closed on Tuesday, October 29 while we move to a new space, and business will resume Wednesday in our new office in room 030 on the garden level of Encina Central/East. The spacious office will be shared with our friends at the…

Undergraduates Shiriel King Abramson (American Studies) and Courtney Cooperman (Political Science) published an opinon editorial this week about their experience working with detained asylum-seeking families in Dilley, Texas in June. The trip was…

Thanks to tremendous student interest in our academic, advisory, and research programs, we have outgrown our office in Encina Hall West, and are delighted to announce the Center will be moving this month to a beautifully renovated, larger space…

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is pleased to announce that it will award 2-3 graduate fellowships (in the amount of $5,000 each) during AY2019-20. The funding is to support Stanford students in the process of completing a…

The Handa Center held a panel discussion with our fellow Erica Gould, Stanford Law Professor Jeffrey Fisher, and NGO experts who successfully challenged international organizations' immunity in a U.S. Supreme Court. The case empowers communities…

By Arman Kassam, Student Assistant.

Betsy Andersen, the Executive Director of the World Justice Project, outlined an urgent need to reclaim the rule of law at the Handa Center biannual lecture on Human Rights this past Thursday. Her call…

The Handa Center is delighted to announce that the Minor in Human Rights was unanimously renewed this month for a five year term by Stanford's Academic Council. The renewal comes after the program received a positive recommendation from the…

Stanford senior Audrey Huynh has been awarded the John Gardner Public Service Fellowship for 2019-20. The Gardner Fellowship provides opportunities for graduating seniors to invest their talent, energy and training in public service.

By Rachael Ku, Handa Center Student Assistant

Christoph Sperfeldt, a Research Fellow at the Handa Center and a Senior Research Fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School, recently spoke to a Stanford…

By Isabel Vasquez, Handa Center Student Assistant

The Handa Center presented a small group of students recently with the opportunity to sit down with Michelle Bachelet, the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The…

The Handa Center's Associate Director, Penelope Van Tuyl, recently took part in a panel on the effects of social media and misinformation campaigns on human rights fact-finding. The discussion was part of a conference in Washington, DC,…

Stanford junior Eva Borgwardt, who has been a key contributor to the Handa Center's Virtual Tribunals initiative, recently won the Truman Scholarship for graduate studies. Only 62 students across America received the prestigious $30,000…

By Isabel Vasquez, Handa Center Student Assistant

Brooke Axtell, founder of She is Rising, a healing community for women and girls overcoming gender violence and trafficking for sex, spoke to a Stanford audience about her work and her new…

Daryn Reicherter, MD, director of the Stanford's Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health (HRTMH) Program, was recently profiled in Stanford Medicine's blog, "Scope." The HRTMH Program is a joint, interdisciplinary collaboration between the Handa…

by Isabel Vasquez, Handa Center student assistant

David Morales, director of Strategic Litigation for Cristosal, a NGO working to advance human rights in Central America, spoke to a Stanford audience about his work on the El Mozote case…