The Harvard Human Rights Journal is starting a new community-based blog here on HarvardHRJ.com. The first post--a note from the director of a Yezidi organization on the rights of survivors of the Islamic State's atrocities--is already online, and more will [...]
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Online Symposium on Transitional Justice
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN CONTEXT Online Symposium, 2017 Truth, reconciliation, accountability, and reparation are generally identified as the core components of transitional justice. When it is not politically or practically feasible to hold perpetrators of human rights violations criminally accountable, is it acceptable [...]
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Announcing Volume 28 of HHRJ
The HHRJ staff is very excited to announce that Volume 28, Issue 1 has been published! Click below to read our articles and student note. ARTICLES Lazo-Majano: Alive, Well, and Thriving at Twenty-Seven Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. Strategic Compliance in the Shadow of Transnational [...]
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Gender Inequalities in Access to Information about Ebola as Gender-Based Violence
By Anjali Manivannan Click here to access a PDF version of this article The current Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa has infected 27,237 people—almost exclusively in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—of whom 11,158 died. This public health emergency has significantly [...]
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Freeing Trade at the Expense of Local Crop Markets?: A Look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s New Plant-Related Intellectual Property Rights from a Human Rights Perspective
By Hannah Brennan & Burcu Kilic Click here to access a PDF Version of this article I. Introduction On October 16, 2014, a new draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was leaked. The TPP is a free trade [...]
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Book Review: Conscientious Objection to Military Service in International Human Rights Law, by Özgür Çinar
By David J. Hotelling Click here to access a PDF Version of this article Individuals with powerful ethical, moral, or religious beliefs can cause a quandary for political systems that seek to both protect individual consciousness and protect the State. The conscientious objector [...]
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HHRJ Annual Symposium – International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Successes and Challenges
When: Friday, March 27th, 2015 at Harvard Law School Sponsored by the Harvard Human Rights Journal and Advocates for Human Rights With contributions from the Milbank Student Conference Fund Keynote Address by Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY: Where Has International Criminal Law Taken [...]
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Using Dias’ Legal Resources approach to Combat Manual Scavenging in India: A Human Rights Analysis
By Devarshi Mukhopadhyay and Ramya Krishna Tenneti Click here to access a PDF Version of this article INTRODUCTION: RE-ANALYZING THE CASTE QUESTION In her essay “Can the Subaltern speak?” Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak raises questions about who speaks for whom when the subaltern of history [...]
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