Noticias

Read Camila Bustos’ latest co-authored piece on how law schools, and the legal profession as a whole, are exacerbating the climate crisis and what they can do to diminish this impact.

Read UNHR ED Jim Cavallaro’s written critique of the ICC.

The discussion considers the recent book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, written by Samuel Moyn, and its relevance to the current war in Ukraine. The event featured the author (Moyn), as well as Silja Voeneky, of the University of Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and Frauke Lachenmann, of the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium. James Cavallaro, of the University Network for Human Rights, Yale Law School and Wesleyan University, was the moderator. The public address questions to the panelists in the second half of the event.

A joint report published in July 2020 by Harvard University’s International Human Rights Clinic and the University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) accused Áñez’s interim government of carrying out gross human rights abuses. It claimed at least 23 indigenous Bolivians were killed and over 230 injured by soldiers in the towns of Sakaba and Senkata, during protests against her government in November 2019. This was reportedly the second deadliest month in terms of civilian deaths by state forces since Bolivia became a democracy in 1982.

No matter what the Public Service Commission says about the need for the project, the bid to build two new LNG vaporizers at the plant goes against New York’s climate laws, attorney for the Sane Energy Project and Cooper Park Resident Council Ruhan Nagra said…“We are extremely disappointed that DEC has failed once again to stand with environmental justice communities.”

“A September 2018 Times profile of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was slammed by University Network for Human Rights executive director James Cavallaro for giving ‘free publicity for dangerous psychopaths.’”

“El Dr. James Cavallaro, expresidente de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), realizó una visita académica a la Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México.”

This 20-minute VICE documentary features UNHR’s work with the community of Mossville, Louisiana.

“Por su parte James Cavallaro, profesor de la universidad de Yale y expresidente de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos dijo que las autoridades mexicanas deben responder las preguntas sobre la desaparición de los estudiantes. “En vez de entrar en afirmaciones sobre la confianza o falta de confianza que podría tener el señor presidente López Obrador en las Fuerzas Armadas, trabajemos en función de hechos”, estima Cavallaro.”

“Afirmó que el gobierno de la expresidenta fue ilegal porque se utilizó la violencia para que las autoridades ejecutivas y legislativas renuncien a sus cargos y de esa manera llegar al poder.”

Listen to Eric Clemons interview ED Jim Cavallaro on human rights violations and the training the next generation of defenders.

“Este blog resume los principales argumentos y propuestas del reporte “La Impunidad Activa en México: Cómo entender y enfrentar las violaciones masivas a los derechos humanos” de Alejandro Anaya Muñoz, James Cavallaro y Patricia Cruz Marín, publicado por el ITESO y la University Network for Human Rights en 2021. El informe fue presentado en México el 13 y 15 julio de 2021. 1”

“Organizations such as Amnesty International, University Network for Human Rights, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network, #StandWithKashmir as well as Mary Lawlor the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, have condemned the activist’s arrest saying the anti-terror laws are being misused to criminalized the work of human rights defenders in India.”

“Several international human rights organizations including Amnesty International, University Network for Human Rights, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network and many others have expressed their solidarity following his arrest and has called upon the Indian authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally.”

“According to Ruhan Nagra, the director of the Environmental Justice Initiative and the senior clinical supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights, environmental and climate law is moving in a direction that’s much more community focused. This is evident in New York’s landmark law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. ‘I think the environmental justice protections built into the CLCPA are very significant, and absolutely a result of all of the grassroots organizing that’s happened in order to make these sorts of climate justice laws a reality,’ she said.”

“Ruhan Nagra, director of the Environmental Justice Initiative at University Network for Human Rights, who represents Sane Energy in their lawsuit against National Grid, said enforcing the policy so late in the review process does not really comply with CP29. ‘It is absolutely insufficient to decide at the end of a public permit process that suddenly this policy applies and therefore National Grid needs to submit this public participation plan and have a public information session, and then somehow presume that National Grid has fulfilled its obligations under CP29 by doing that,’ she said.”