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  • Prison Portraits: Photographic Self-Representation in an Image Desert
    December 7
    As the Docs Program undertakes visual work on behalf of lifers incarcerated for decades because they are ineligible for parole, we confront a ban on photographing and filming in prisons.  Prison Portraits may be useful in providing not only a way to deal with the ban, but also an argument why it is wrong.
  • Collective Trauma, Transitional Justice and Two Documentaries about Philadelphia’s Confrontation with MOVE
    July 3
    As “Let the Fire Burn” (2013) and “The Bombing of Osage Avenue” (1987) show in very different ways, May 13, 1985 was a traumatic day in the history of police/citizen relations in Philadelphia.  Its legacy is reflected in contemporary controversies over race relations in America.
  • Summer Employment Dispatch: Darien Wynn L’19
    August 3
    In this dispatch, Darien Wynn L’19 describes his work with SECTION27, a public interest law center in South Africa.
  • 2016 Chubb Rule of Law Fund Report
    June 29
    Established in 2012 in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the fellowship creates new pathways for students to build careers in international rule of law and human rights.
  • The National Security Narrative Exacerbates Persecution of Rohingya Muslims
    June 20
    The United Nations (UN) has long characterized the Rohingya Muslims as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, with anti-Rohingya and anti-Muslim sentiment tainting Burma’s political and social spheres.  In contravention to international human rights law, Burmese officials subject Rohingya Muslims to a spectrum of human rights violations including the denial of citizenship rights, restrictions on religious freedom, forced displacement, gender-based violence and the arbitrary deprivation of life.
  • TLC’s Ayodele Gansallo featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer
    March 6
    Transnational Legal Clinic lecturer in law Ayodele Gansallo has been working hard to assist those affected by the recent Trump travel ban. Click the link to read more on Philly.com
  • A Dignified Death: Reflections on the Treatment of Prisoners and Compassionate Release
    December 10
    In honor of Human Rights Day on December 10th, Hayley Winograd L’17, shares her reflections on her documentary A Dignified Death, which addresses issues of the treatment of prisoners and compassionate release from Pennsylvania state prisons. Introduction by Editor Patricia Stottlemyer, L’17.
  • Penn Law Hosts UN Giants to Discuss the Role of Women in the Global Human Rights Movement
    October 25
    Two titans of the global human rights movement reflected on the challenges facing women’s human rights, on September 20, before a packed room of students and faculty at Penn Law. Associate Dean for International Programs Rangita de Silva de Alwis moderated the conversation between former United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Hina Jilani and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
  • How Can US Foreign Policy Address Child Marriage?
    October 11
    Earlier in the year, on International Women’s Day, The United Nations announced an initiative to end child marriage by 2030. If nothing is done to accelerate change, women married as children will reach one billion by 2030.  While child marriage is well-documented as a heinous crime against girls, from a development perspective, addressing the causes of child marriage will be more expedient than addressing the consequences of child marriage: vulnerability to violence, maternal mortality, HIV Aids, and feminization of poverty, among others. As we mark the first year after nations committed to a new development agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals, ending early child marriage must be defined as both a women’s rights issue and a development imperative.
  • Girls’ Education as a “Justice” Issue: Redefining Attacks against Girls’ Education as a Tactic of Terror
    July 28
    Girls’ education as a justice issue expands the notion of the right to education and invokes the right to education as a justiciable right. This new definition of education as justice provides a fresh lens to analyze the current war against girl’s education.
  • Child Advocacy Profs Weigh in on ‘Disturbing’ Montco Court’s Dicta
    March 16
    Montco Court opinion on a denied petition filed by Child Advocacy Clinic professors, Kara Finck and Jennifer Nagda, highlights misunderstandings between state and federal laws which leaves children with Special Immigrant Juvenile status unprotected.
  • Transnational Legal Clinic Calls for IACHR Hearing
    January 22
    TLC calls for IACHR hearing about Central Americans held in detention centers.
  • “The Look of Silence”: Vicarious Fear, Transitional Justice, and Documentary Practice
    June 8
    Like “The Act of Killing,”  Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Look of Silence” examines the 1965 Indonesian genocide; this time the focus is Adi Rukun, the brother of a victim, who pursues his own mission of truth and reconciliation.
  • Panel 4: Privacy as a Human Right
    January 20
    3:30 - 5:00 PM
  • PLIRP co-sponsors “De Novo,” a documentary illustrating life of an undocumented immigrant youth
    March 12
    The Penn Law Immigrant Rights Project (PLIRP) is a TPIC Pro Bono Project whose goals include providing pro bono immigration law services to the greater Philadelphia community and educating the Penn community on issues of immigration law.
  • The Archives' Far-flung Researchers
    September 20
    What an exciting week at the Archives! I had a patron come all the way from the hinterlands of Norway to conduct research in arguably our most valuable records: The American Law Institute's "Statement of Essential Human Rights" Collection. (More after the jump.)