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Annual Report

2011-2012 Annual Report

Reports & Papers

Bringing Human Rights Home: How State and Local Governments Can Use Human Rights to Advance Local Policy
The Human Rights Institute, December 2012

Counting Drone Strike Deaths
The Human Rights Clinic, October 2012

The Civilian Impact of Drone Strikes: Unexamined Costs, Unanswered Questions
The Human Rights Clinic and the Center for Civilians in Conflict, September 2012

The Road to Rights: Establishing a Domestic Human Rights Institution in the United States
The Human Rights Institute and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, April 2012

Gender Justice in the Americas: A Transnational Dialogue on Violence, Sexuality, Reproduction, and Human Rights
A Post Conference Report (available in English and Spanish)

Enforcing the Rules: Government & Citizen Oversight of Mining
Erin Smith & Peter Rosenblum, 2011

Implementing Recomendations from the Universal Periodic Review: A Toolkit for State & Local Human Rights & Human Relations Commissions
The Human Rights Institute, August 2011
 

Promises to Keep: Diplomatic Assurances Against Torture in U.S. Terrorism Transfers
Naureen Shah, December 2011

State and Local Human Rights Agencies: Recommendations for Advancing Opportunity and Equality Through an International Human Rights Framework
Human Rights Institute, 2010
 

Contracts Confidential: Ending Secret Deals in the Extractive Industries
Peter Rosenblum and Susan Maples, 2010

Climate Change and the Right to Food: A Comprehensive Study
Olivier de Schutter

Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States
Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, Martha F. Davis, ed

Human Rights and Domestic Violence: An Advocacy Manual
March 2010

Human Rights, Social Justice and State Law: A Manual for Creative Lawyering with Supplementary Materials
Spring 2008

Other Publications

Framing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the U.N.
Risa Kaufman, Northeastern Law Journal, Vol. 4, pp.407-427, 2012

'By Some Other Means': Considering the Executive's Role in Fostering Subnational Human Rights Compliance
Risa Kaufman, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 33:5, pp. 101-159, 2012

Using Human Rights Mechanisms of the United Nations to Advance Economic Justice
Risa Kaufman and JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Clearinghouse Review, Fall 2011