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Alfonso Carrillo

Advisory Board Member
Partner, Carrillo & Asociados

Alfonso Carrillo is a leading Guatemalan attorney and founding partner of one of Guatemala’s largest and most well-respected... Read more about Alfonso Carrillo



Clara Brillembourg

Advisory Board Member
Partner, Foley Hoag

Clara Brillembourg specializes in counseling sovereign States in international disputes with other States, foreign investors... Read more about Clara Brillembourg



Steve D'Antonio

Advisory Board Member
Chief Operating Officer, Global Fixed Income Division, Morgan Stanley

Steve D’Antonio served as global chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley’s Fixed Income Division, and was a member of the firm-wide 40-person management... Read more about Steve D'Antonio



Vin Ryan

Advisory Board Member
Chair Emeritus

Vin Ryan is Founder and Chairman of Schooner Capital, a firm which he started in 1971 and has managed for four decades. He serves as a Director of Iron... Read more about Vin Ryan



Marlese von Broembsen, Jenna Harvey, and Marty Chen. 3/5/2019. Realizing Rights for Homeworkers: An Analysis of Governance Mechanisms. . Carr Center Discussion Paper Series. 2019004th ed. Cambridge: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. See full text.Abstract

Realizing Rights for Homeworkers: An Analysis of Governance Mechanisms Carr Center Discussion Paper: 

Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the labour rights violations in global supply chains, and indeed the governance of global supply chains, has become a pressing global issue. This paper evaluates key existing global and national supply chain governance mechanisms from the perspective of the most vulnerable workers in supply chains—informal homeworkers.

Read the full paper here: https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/files/cchr/files/ccdp_2019_004_realizing_rights.pdf



Advancing Human Rights Policy and Practice

March 4, 2019

Sarah Margon, Washington director at Human Rights Watch, discusses how the organization addresses human rights violations, authoritarianism, and policy changes from the local to global level.... Read more about Advancing Human Rights Policy and Practice

2019 Apr 04
Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Human Rights at the Frontlines - Negotiating the Protection of Civilians
11:45am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is excited to announce its 2019 Speaker Series: Human Rights in Hard Places, facilitated by Carr Center Executive Director, Sushma Raman.
The Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series was formed to underscore that despite the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, vast human rights abuses are still occurring 7 decades later. 
We hope for...
Read more about Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Human Rights at the Frontlines - Negotiating the Protection of Civilians



Averell Schmidt and Kathryn Sikkink. 2/20/2019. “Breaking the Ban? The Heterogeneous Impact of US Contestation of the Torture Norm.” Journal of Global Security Studies, 4, 1, Pp. 105-122. See full text.Abstract

Breaking the Ban? The Heterogeneous Impact of US Contestation of the Torture Norm recent journal article by Kathryn Sikkink and Averell Schmidt

Following the attacks of 9/11, the United States adopted a policy of torturing suspected terrorists and reinterpreted its legal obligations so that it could argue that this policy was lawful. This article investigates the impact of these actions by the United States on the global norm against torture. After conceptualizing how the United States contested the norm against torture, the article explores how US actions impacted the norm across four dimensions of robustness: concordance with the norm, third-party reactions to norm violations, compliance, and implementation. This analysis reveals a heterogeneous impact of US contestation: while US policies did not impact global human rights trends, it did shape the behavior of states that aided and abetted US torture policies, especially those lacking strong domestic legal structures. The article sheds light on the circumstances under which powerful states can shape the robustness of global norms.

Read more here: https://academic.oup.com/jogss/article-abstract/4/1/105/5347914?redirectedFrom=fulltext



Patrick Vinck

Research Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Assistant Professor, Global Health and Population, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health

Patrick Vinck, Ph.D. is the Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.  He is assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard... Read more about Patrick Vinck

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John Shattuck, Aaron Huang, and Elisabeth Thoreson-Green. 2/28/2019. The War on Voting Rights. Carr Center Discussion Paper Series. 2019003rd ed. Cambridge: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. See full text.Abstract

Discussion Paper on The War on Voting Rights: 

The 2020 presidential election will be a showdown over the right to vote. The outcome will be determined by an electoral system under attack from both foreign and domestic sources. Russian efforts to manipulate the 2016 presidential election are being extensively investigated, but the domestic war on voting rights is less well understood.  After more than a century of expanding the voting rights of previously disenfranchised groups, the American electoral system today is confronted by political and legal maneuvers to curtail the hard-won rights of these same groups, ostensibly in the name of combating fraud and regulating voting, but in fact in order to change the outcome of elections. 

 

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