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On Wednesday December 1, 2021, from 2-3 ET/1-2 CT/12-1 MT/11-12 PT, the National Homelessness Law Center will host a webinar to present its soon-to-be released report, Housing Not Handcuffs 2021: State Law Supplement. The 2021 report supplements the Housing Not…
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By Kaeleigh Williams, 2L at St. Louis University School of Law Last week, voters in Maine voted to add a “right to food” amendment to the state’s constitution. The amendment, which is the first of its kind in the United…
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Martha F. Davis, Access to water is a human right. When will the U.S. government agree?, WBUR (Nov. 3, 2021). Excerpt below: “Water is life, and water policy should be a central concern of nations as they gather for the…
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Wednesday November 10, 2021, at 12noon ET, the American Bar Association will host a webinar entitled Refugees and Asylum in the U.S. & Review of Domestic Interpretations at Odds with International Guidance. This webinar will review the differences between the…
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On Wednesday November 3, 2021, at 5:00pm ET, the American Society of International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group is holding a webinar on Indigenous Peoples and Constitutional Reform. Event Description: Over many years, Indigenous Peoples have successfully developed…
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David Birchall, Corporate Power over Human Rights, Encyclopedia of Business Ethics (October 4,2021), Abstract Below. The business and human rights (BHR) movement has developed rapidly since the 1990s, in lockstep with spiralling corporate size, wealth and influence. BHR attempts to…
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The following calls for inputs have been issued by the UN Human Rights Mechanisms with deadlines in November 2021 and law professors whose practice, research, and/or scholarship touches on these topics may be interested in submission: Special Rapporteur on the…
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Laura T. Dickinson, National Security Policymaking in the Shadow of International Law, Utah Law Review, Vol. 2021, No. 3 (2021). Abstract below. Scholars have long debated whether and how international law impacts governmental behavior, even in the absence of coercive…
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is current holding its 181st Period of Sessions virtually from October 18th until October 29th of 2021. To view the hearings, pre-registration is required: https://oas.org/en/iachr/sessions/calendario.asp?S=181. All times are listed in United States Eastern Standard…
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By Kaeleigh Williams, 2L at St. Louis University School of Law On Thursday October 14, 2021, the U.N. General Assembly elected the United States to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. The Trump administration quit the 47-member body more than three…
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Edited by Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite, The Struggle for Human Rights: Essays in honour of Philip Alston (2021), Description below. The Struggle for Human Rights evaluates the themes of law, politics, and practice…
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Sital Kalantry, Do Reason-Based Bans Prevent Eugenics?, Cornell Law Review Online (Oct. 13, 2021). Abstract below. Two judges of the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas, as well as several other U.S. Federal Court of Appeals judges…
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The United States was elected to the UN Human Rights Council on October 14, 2021, more than three years after the Trump administration withdrew from the Council. On the campaign trail President Biden had promised that the United States would…
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The U.N. Human Rights Council recognized for the first time on Friday, October 8, 2021, that having a clean, healthy, sustainable environment is a human right. Four countries abstained: Russia, India, China, and Japan. The United States is not currently…
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The University of Vienna in cooperation with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights are hosting an international conference `International Criminal Law before Domestic Courts’, which will take place online from Thursday October 14 until Saturday October 16,…
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Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, Solidarity as a Constitutional Value, Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2021). Abstract Below. In the face of the threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Solidarity has become the term of the hour. The…
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This blog introduced the Entitled podcast in a post on August 23, 2021. This post below provides more information about the hosts of the podcast and the first couple of episodes. By Khala Turner, 3L at St. Louis University School…
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Desirée LeClercq, The Disparate Treatment of Rights in U.S. Trade, Fordham Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 1 (2021). Abstract below. Rights advocates are increasingly urging U.S. trade negotiators to include new binding and sanctionable provisions that would protect human rights,…
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On Friday October 8, 2021, the University of Georgia School of Law’s Dean Rusk International Law Center will host its annual Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law conference. The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment produced the…
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On September 17, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released a statement expressing concern over the expulsion of people, mainly of Haitian nationality, from the United States, Mexico, and Guatemala. The IACHR called on all States involved “to…
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During the webinar on Thursday, Oct. 7th from 4pm to 5pm, Rachel Lopez and her co-author Kempis Songster will be presenting their article, Redeeming Justice, which will be published next week in the Northwestern Law Review, and the presentation will…
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On October 4-5, 2021, the United Nations Office at Geneva and the Nizami Ganjavi International Center will be holding a webcast on “Peace, Diversity and our Common Humanity”. From the event organizers: UN Secretary-General António Guterres has just published his…
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Kisha Parella, Investors as International Law Intermediaries: Using Shareholder Proposals to Enforce Human Rights, Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 2 (forthcoming 2022). Abstract below. One of the biggest challenges with international law remains its enforcement. This challenge grows…
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On September 14, 2021, the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls: Melissa Upreti (Chair), Dorothy Estrada Tanck (Vice-Chair), Elizabeth Broderick, Ivana Radačić, and Meskerem Geset Techane; Tlaleng Mofokeng, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment…
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On Thursday September 23, 2021, at 9am ET, the first day of the Annual Strategic Litigation Roundtable 2021 will take place virtually, co-hosted by UNHCR, HIAS, Asylum Access and, this year, the new Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights….
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Two ABA events are being held tomorrow that might be of interest. First, the ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and the White House Gender Policy Council are holding a listening event on the White House’s development of a…
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Please join us in welcoming three new Co-Editors of the Human Rights at Home Blog: Mary Hansel Acting Director of the International Justice Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law R. Denisse Córdova Montes Practitioner in Residence,…
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