Our Ten-year Story Video
Transcript of Our Ten-year Story Video
"Video by Krisha Mae Cabrera, Clinic Alum 2020.
In tribute to the Clinic's 10 year anniversary.
For a decade, the International Human Rights Clinic at USC Gould School of Law has taken on cases involving some of the most urgent and devastating human rights violations plaguing our globe.
Under the supervision of clinic director Hannah Garry, student attorneys have engaged in high-impact work, and have learned to apply international law as a tool for social justice.
Students have assisted international judges and legal officers with efforts involving 15 former heads-of-state and high-level military leaders allegedly responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and terrorism perpetrated against hundreds of thousands of victims in Cambodia, Lebanon, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Since the clinic's launch in 2011, students have also achieved a near 100 percent success rate in representing human trafficking victims with clients from Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines.
Advocacy meets application as students learn to provide client-focused, strategic, and detail-oriented work with human rights at the very core.
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