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Addressing current human rights concerns at local, state, and international levels

The Carr Center’s work includes a range of special initiatives focused on critical and compelling human rights concerns, including migration, trafficking, torture, transitional justice, humanitarian crises, LGBTQ rights, corruption, and shrinking civil society space. These initiatives are responsive to current events and are reflected in the work of our fellows, student experiential learning and funding, conferences and seminars, and the...

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Chicago Public Schools Monitored Social Media for Signs of Violence, Gang Membership

February 11, 2019

New article in ProPublica Illinois mentions the work of Desmond Patton, Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow.

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Critical Skill for Nonprofits in the Digital Age: Technical Intuition

May 7, 2019

Alix Dunn, Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow, was recently interviewed in a podcast for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. 

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Living with a Criminal Record

January 8, 2019

Technology and Human Rights fellow Laurin Leonard talks with Minnesota Public Radio.

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Alberto Mora. 3/15/2018. “Gina Haspel Is a Torturer. What Else Does the Senate Need to Know?” Politico . Publisher's VersionAbstract

A new Op-Ed by Carr Center Senior Fellow Alberto Mora in Politico.

President Donald Trump is notoriously hostile toward the CIA. He frequently denigrates it in public and reportedly rarely even bothers to read its reports. None of Trump’s critical tweets, utterances or acts, however, carries as much venom or has the potential for causing as much harm to the agency as the president’s recent nomination of Gina Haspel to serve as the CIA’s next director. If evidence were needed of the president’s continuing grudge against the agency, this is it.

Original post, in Politico, here.



Aminta Ossom

Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School

Aminta Ossom is a Clinical Instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic. She focuses on equality, inclusion, and economic and social rights. She also has research interests in human rights diplomacy, the role of identity in advocacy, and symbioses between civil and human rights movements.... Read more about Aminta Ossom

HLS
2019 Nov 08
Film Screening: The Report
6:30pm to 10:00pm
Location: 
Brattle Square Theater; 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138 | Harvard Kennedy School, Allison Dining Room
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Amazon Studios invite you to a special screening of, "The Report". 
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Notes from a North Korean Defector

October 31, 2019

Listen to a personal and policy-oriented account of the climate in North Korea in this special episode of Justice Matters. 

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2019 Oct 22
Organized Crime, Migrants and Human Rights in Central and North America
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Rubenstein 229
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy welcomes Sergio Aguayo (Professor,  El Colegio de Mexico and Fellow, FXB) to deliver a talk titled, "Organized Crime, Migrants and Human Rights in Central and North America." Jacqueline Bhabha ( FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School) will serve as the moderator.
 
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The Politics of Documentation: Narrative and the Rohingya Crisis

October 7, 2019

In the latest episode of Justice Matters, Carr Center's Executive Director Sushma Raman interviews Carr Center Fellow Matthew Smith. Smith is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fortify Rights.... Read more about The Politics of Documentation: Narrative and the Rohingya Crisis

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