Items tagged with Human Rights

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  The Report on Mapping the Impact of Gender Equality Lawmaking and Constitutionmaking: A Comparative Perspective
  August 10
  Associate Dean Rangita de Silva de Alwis’ Seminar on International Women’s Human Rights presented two reports to the United Nations (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Women) on May 16. The Report on Mapping the Impact of Gender Equality Lawmaking and Constitutionmaking: A Comparative Perspective was submitted to UN Women. This report is posted on UN Women’s website.
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  Girls Education as a “Justice” Issue: Redefining Attacks against Girls’ Education as 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.
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  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.
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  Transnational Legal Clinic Calls for IACHR Hearing
  January 22
  TLC calls for IACHR hearing about Central Americans held in detention centers.
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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.
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  “A Civil Remedy” Backstory: How Law Professor Kate Nace Day Came to Make a Documentary Short about Domestic Sex Trafficking
  July 17
  After analyzing numerous documentaries about sex trafficking, Law Professor Emerita Kate Nace Day decided to make one that focuses on a vision of civil justice for survivors.
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  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.
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  “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.
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  Panel 4: Privacy as a Human Right
  January 20
  3:30 - 5:00 PM
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  The Lived Experience of an Oxymoron: Harry Reicher’s Visual Approach to Law & the Holocaust
  November 10
  The late Harry Reicher, Adjunct Professor at Penn Law, made extensive use of visual material in teaching Holocaust Studies in the Law.  His talk at the Shoah Foundation explains how and why.
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  Documenting Social Justice Protests #3: The Supporting Roles of Three Different Kinds of Lawyers
  May 27
  Lawyers play a supporting role in protecting and assisting protesters who interact with digital visual technology. The lawyers may be practicing criminal law, civil liberties, or international human rights.
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  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.)