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Human Rights Law

Clinic Supports Pan-African Litigation on Women’s Rights and Economic Justice

The Human Rights Clinic’s Gender Justice team helped develop a curriculum and supplemental resources for a Pan-African Litigation Institute on Women and Economic Justice.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/05/clinic-supports-pan-african-litigation-on-womens-rights-and-economic-justice.html


Human Rights Law

Clinic Supports Pan-African Litigation on Women’s Rights and Economic Justice

The Human Rights Clinic’s Gender Justice team helped develop a curriculum and supplemental resources for a Pan-African Litigation Institute on Women and Economic Justice.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/05/clinic-supports-pan-african-litigation-on-womens-rights-and-economic-justice.html




Human Rights Law

Miami Law Aids in Federal Action Curtailing Unnecessary Intimate Exams

Under guidance from Professor Caroline Bettinger-López, second-year student Nicole Azarian researched and presented findings about the practice to federal agencies.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/04/clinic-aids-in-federal-action-curtailing-unnecessary-intimate-exams.html




Human Rights Law

Environmental Justice and Human Rights Clinics Host Series of Town Halls

Miami Law's clinics offer innovative and high-quality legal services to clients from some of Miami’s most marginalized communities using delivery models that reach clients who would not otherwise have access to counsel.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/04/ejc-and-hrc-host-series-of-townhalls.html


Human Rights Law

Law Students Seek Justice for Colombian Victims

The Human Rights Clinic, part of Miami Law's Human Rights Program, promotes social and economic justice globally and in the U.S.

https://news.miami.edu/stories/2024/03/law-students-seek-justice-for-colombian-victims.html


Human Rights Law

Immigration Clinic's Advocacy Succeeds in Reuniting Wrongfully Deported Haitian Client with Family

The client is one of six in a human rights petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/03/immigration-clinics-advocacy-efforts-in-reuniting-wrongully-deported-client.html


Human Rights Law

Miami Law Student Publishes in Journal of Human Rights Practices

The article deals with how the weakening of environmental protections can jeopardize the rights of citizens.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/02/miami-law-student-publishes-in-journal.html


Human Rights Law

Sustainable Development Goals and Racial Justice Town Hall

Working with community partners, Miami Law's Environmental Justice Clinic and Human Rights Clinic and Program are collaborating with the Black Audit Project to assess Miami-Dade County.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/02/sustainable-development-goals-and-racial-justice-town-hall.html


Human Rights Law

Human Rights Clinic Hosts United Nations Consultation on Racism and Violations of the Right to Food

The clinic, part of Miami Law's Human Rights Program, promotes social and economic justice globally and in the U.S.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/12/human-rights-clinic-hosts-united-nations-consultation-on-racism.html


Human Rights Law

Environmental Justice Clinic Tackles Food Justice in Miami, Collaborates with Human Rights Clinic

Two of Miami Law’s clinics partner to develop a study on how the current food system impacts vulnerable populations in Miami.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/11/environmental-justice-clinic-tackles-food-justice-in-miami.html


Human Rights Law

Human Rights Clinic and Partners Advocate on Food, Housing, Immigration, and Transgender Rights before the United Nations in Geneva

Students traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, with the clinic’s Acting Director and Acting Associate Director for the Fifth Periodic Review of the United States’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/11/human-rights-clinic-advocate-on-food-housing-immigration-and-transgender-rights.html


Human Rights Law

Miami Law Hosts Tenth Annual Louis Henkin Lecture Series on Human Rights with Keith Harper

The former U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council will explore the efficacy of the current international order and discuss if it has effectively adapted to address urgent issues facing today’s world.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/10/tenth-annual-louis-henkin-lecture-series.html


Human Rights Law

Miami Law Clinic Publishes Trans Rights Report

Florida has a long history of discrimination against the LGBT+ community and has recently become a hot spot for attacks against transgender individuals with a spate of anti-trans legislation.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/09/clinic-publishes-trans-rights-report.html


Human Rights Law

Anniversary Marks Legal Protection for Indigenous Women, Girls

This fall semester marks one year since the historic adoption of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women General Recommendation No. 39.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/09/clinic-advances-the-rights-of-women-and-girls.html


Human Rights Law

Human Rights Clinic Alumna Soars at International Human Rights Organization

Yanitza Sánchez Batista, LL.M/J.D. '22 in International Law, joins D.C.-based Institute on Race, Equality, and Human Rights after clinical training experience at Miami Law.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2023/06/human-rights-clinic-alumna-soars-at-international-human-rights-organization.html


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