The Promise Institute for Human Rights
With our innovative courses, globally renowned experts and opportunities to launch students into human rights careers, there is no better place to study human rights law than the Promise Institute.
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Faculty / Experts
Our professors, lecturers, speakers, fellows and researchers represent the vanguard of human rights thinking.
Courses
We offer an inspiring education in human rights that goes far beyond the law.
Publications
With the Williams Institute: Knowledge Gaps and Research Priorities on LGBTQI+ Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Race, Empire and Human Rights
Social Media, Content Moderation and International Human Rights Law
Race, Tech and Borders
Self-Determination, Remedial Secession, and International Law
Proposed Definition of Ecocide
Country Report: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Racial Discrimination and Emerging Digital Technologies: A Human Rights Analysis
Human Rights, Racial Equality & New Information Technologies: Mapping the Structural Threats
Country Report: Qatar
International Criminal Law and the Protection of the Environment
Time to Step Up at the ICC – No Time to Trim the Sails
Reparations for Racial Discrimination, Slavery, and Colonialism
Global Trends in Anti-Semitic Violence
Country Report: Kingdom of Morocco
Country Report: United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Global Extractivism and Racial Equality
Neo-Nazi Youth Recruitment
Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights (Full Report)
Women Behind Bars: Reentry and Human Rights (Executive Summary)
The Use of Digital Technologies in the Propagation of Neo-Nazi & Related Ideology
The Threat of Nationalist Populism to Racial Equality
Racial Discrimination in the Context of Laws, Policies, and Practices Concerning Citizenship, Nationality and Immigration
Contemporary Resurgence & Spread of Support for Neo-Nazi Ideologies
Race, Migration and Ethno-Nationalist Ideologies
The Human Rights Consequences of LASD-ICE Collaboration
Breaking the Silence
Tremors Along the Fault Line: A Critical Perspective on Covid-19 and the Right to Health in the United States
Race, Tech & Borders
Reparations for Colonialism & Slavery
Race, Extractivism & Human Rights
Populism and Racial Equality
Race, Migration and Ethno-Nationalist Ideologies
Racial Discrimination & Emerging Digital Technologies
Connecting Race and Empire: What Critical Race Theory Offers Outside the U.S. Legal Context
Technological Testing Grounds
The Quiet Expansion of Universal Jurisdiction
Universal Jurisdiction Is Not Disappearing
The Diplomacy of Universal Jurisdiction
Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through and Across National Borders
Critical Race Theory Meets Third World Approaches to International Law
News
NBC News: Joseph Berra Explains the Significance of Honduran President’s Extradition
Read MoreThe Minneapolis Star Tribune: Inviting E. Tendayi Achiume to Minneapolis as part of the U.N. Special Rapporteur’s Country Visit to the U.S.
Read MoreBackground Briefing with Ian Masters: Kate Mackintosh Assesses US Evidence of Russian War Crimes in Ukraine
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