Why Elie Wiesel's 'Night' Still Matters so Much to Me – and All of Us
Words tend to fail us most in two circumstances — in the face of profound evil and of transcendent decency.
Research
The Ties that Bind: How Armed Groups Use Violence to Create Social Cohesion
How do armed groups use violence to create social ties? What are the conditions under which such violence takes place?
The Social Construction of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights
The United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) in June 2011.
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
Girl Child Marriage as a Risk Factor for Early Childhood Development and Stunting
This paper quantitatively examines the intergenerational effects of girl child marriage, or the developmental and health outcomes of children born to women who marry before age 18.
Human Mobility and the Longue Durée: The Prehistory of Global Migration Law
The long history of human migration sets the stage for a probing engagement with current migration law and the challenges of bringing it into alignment with contemporary needs and rights.
The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity
We compare the ideological balance of the legal academy to the ideological balance of the legal profession.
Reclaiming Adolescence: A Roma Youth Perspective
In this article, the authors present data gathered in the Reclaiming Adolescence research project, which investigated the educational hardships of Roma youth by comparing their experiences with their
Challenges to Reducing Discrimination and Health Inequity through Existing Civil Rights Laws
More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, health care for racial and ethnic minorities remains in many ways separate and unequal in the United States.
Realizing Roma Rights
Realizing Roma Rights investigates anti-Roma racism and documents a growing Roma-led political movement engaged in building a more inclusive and just Europe.
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