Overview

The mission of the Stanford Human Rights Center is to promote events, research, student engagement, publications, public understanding, practical engagement and policy development in the area of international human rights and global social justice.  The Center will work closely with the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic.

The Center launched in early April 2013 with the first of a series of events in its year-long speaker series on the "Future of Human Rights."  Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, was the first of a number of leading practitioners and scholars to address this question.  Upcoming speakers and topics are:

May 13: Can U.S. Social Movements Leverage International Human Rights Standards? with Ejim Dike, Executive Director of U.S. Human Rights Network.  Room 185 from 12:45-2:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.

May 21: Environment, Networks and Social Movements in Latin America and the Global South with Professor César Rodríguez Garavito, Associate Professor and Director, Program on Global Justice and Human Rights, University of the Andes Law School.  Room 285 from 12:45-2:00pm.  Lunch will be provided.

PAST EVENTS

April 2: Pressuring Rights Abusers as Power Shifts and Diffuses with Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. 

April 16: Cameras Everywhere: Can Citizen Witnesses + Technology Empower Rights Advocacy? with Sam Gregory of WITNESS.   

April 22: Does the History of Human Rights Matter for the Future? with Professor Jenny Martinez of Stanford Law School.  

April 29: Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts After Kiobel with Paul Hoffman, leading Alien Tort Statute litigator and lead counsel in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.