Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys h...
UC Press is thrilled to share that UC Press author Loretta Ross has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.
Loretta J. Ross, Reproductive Justice and Human Rights Advocate, 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Northampton, MA
Loretta J. Ross is a reproductive justice and human rights activist reframi...
By Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture
I made my first trip to Guantánamo in July 2010 after years of researching the fight against US torture during the “war on terror.” At the time, Guantánamo’s well-deserved description as a “legal black ho...
By Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles
The past week marked historic recognition of injustice and suffering. In Minneapolis on April 20, a jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, on...
by Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
Violence in the Darfur region of Sudan is flaring up again, as the United Nations and news media report. Janjawiid militia are targeting the same groups they had s...
Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable human rights which everyone is inherently entitled to regardless of race, eth...