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The King Center on Global Development recently awarded a generous grant to the Stanford's Human Trafficking Data Lab, an early-stage research initiative jointly run by faculty and staff from the Center for Human Rights and International Justice,…

A recently released report by the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, relied upon research provided in a submission by Stanford’s Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Program (HRTMHP).…

On October 5-7, people from 16 time zones and 5 continents convened in a Digital Human Rights Summit on Responsible Digital Leadership, Information, Infrastructure, and Governance to discuss how a new, human-centric and ethical technology can…

Recent Stanford human rights graduates Lily Foulkes, Xóchitl Longstaff, and Shannon Richardson recently won the Walk the Talk Service Leadership Award. This award recognizes the public service activities of students involved in service through…

What are digital rights? And how do Human Rights relate in the digital age? How do we protect and secure rights of individuals in this digital world? And most importantly, how do we change governance models to fit what…

Human rights graduate Harika Kottakota '20 recently won the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Harika graduated in June with a bachelors degree in Biology and a Human Rights Minor. She was the undergraduate coordinator for…

Stanford human rights graduate Lily Foulkes '20 recently won the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and the Creative Arts.

Lily graduated from Stanford this year with a bachelors degree in History and a minor in…

Recent Stanford graduate and 2019 Summer Human Rights Fellow Xóchitl Longstaff has won a Fulbright Award to work in Colombia. The Fulbright Program, established in 1946 by U.S. Congress was created to foster mutual understanding among nations…

Center Fellows Soren Jorgensen and Radhika Shah have launched a project on Responsible Digital Leadership. The project will provide guidelines and learning platforms for acting responsibly with data and new technologies such as artificial…

Nearly three years ago, Center for Human Rights and International Justice Senior Program Manager Jessie Brunner was invited to Greentree Estate on Long Island, NY to help set the agenda for measuring achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (…

Two students affiliated with the Center for Human Rights and International Justice have received the J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement from the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Keith Nobbs is minoring in Human…

Stanford senior Melodie Grace Liu has been named a scholar by the The Yenching Academy of Peking University. Melodie is among 119 young scholars selected for the award, which provides one year of graduate study at Peking University. In the fall,…

Digital technologies offer promising means of anticipating, analyzing, and responding to serious human rights concerns, but they also present human rights challenges. On September 18, 2019, the Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National…

This  week, faculty of Stanford’s Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Program (HRTMHP), of which the Center for Human Rights and International Justice is a core collaborator, will launch a series of online trainings focused on best…

Julian Bava '18, an alumnus of Stanford's Human Rights Minor, recently published a research paper in Vermont Law Review. His article, "Prosecuting Extraterritorial Atrocity Crimes Under State Law: An Analysis of the Puerto Rico Model," discusses…

By Rachael Ku, Student Assistant.

 

Two affiliates of the Center, Daniel Mattes and Somaly Kum, recently published a Research Compendium on the Women in Law in Cambodia, along with their colleague, Muy Seo, a researcher and law…

By Isabel Vasquez, Student Assistant.

 

The Stanford Daily recently published an opinion article by Maya Mahony describing her experience working with asylum-seeking families in Texas through a human rights course offered last…

Alina Utrata (’17), a former Center student assistant and one of the first Stanford students to graduate with a minor in Human Rights, was recently awarded with a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD at Cambridge University.

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By Alisha Zhao, Student Assistant.

 

The Center for Human Rights and International Justice recently hosted Dr. Ravi Mariwala and Ms. Paula Mariwala to discuss the role of innovation and human rights for the future of water in…

By Isabel Vasquez, Student Assistant.

 

Dr. Adam Kochanski, a former postdoctoral fellow and a current research fellow at the Center, recently returned to Stanford to discuss his research findings on local transitional justice…