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The International Human Rights Clinic, partners, and professors request that U.S. Congress hold Azerbaijan accountable for human rights violations, amend Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act

  • Publication date May 25, 2021

The International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC), based at the USC Gould School of Law,  has joined with a number of institutional partners and professors to request that the U.S. Congress hold Azerbaijan accountable for its grave human rights violations committed during and after its  September 2020 attacks on the Nagorno-Karabakh region and Armenia. The Clinic is concerned  that continued U.S. military aid has, and will continue to, further embolden Azerbaijan’s alarming  behavior. The Clinic requests that further aid be halted immediately, and that Section 907 be  amended to add a requirement into the President’s waiver authority to ensure that no funds may be  provided to the Government of Azerbaijan unless and until the President certifies to Congress that  any security assistance to Azerbaijan is not being used, and will not be used, for offensive  purposes against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh….Continue Reading The International Human Rights Clinic, partners, and professors request that U.S. Congress hold Azerbaijan accountable for human rights violations, amend Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act

Trial Monitoring with the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch Project: “Pre-Trial Proceedings Against Maâti Monjib in Morocco Raise Concerns”

  • Publication date April 6, 2021

Excerpt from the statement drafted by Clinic Student Attorney Pablo Das with TrialWatch: “The Clooney Foundation for Justice and the USC Law International Human Rights Clinic
announced today that the Clinic intends to monitor criminal proceedings against
academic and activist Maâti Monjib in Morocco as part of CFJ’s TrialWatch initiative. Mr.
Monjib was arrested late last year on suspicion of money laundering based on allegations
that he received funding from foreign sources that he then diverted for his own use. The
charges carry a potential sentence of up to 10 years….Continue Reading Trial Monitoring with the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch Project: “Pre-Trial Proceedings Against Maâti Monjib in Morocco Raise Concerns”

Clinic Director Professor Hannah Garry testifies before the Canadian House of Commons on the unfolding atrocity situation in Cameroon

  • Publication date February 19, 2021

On February 16, 2021, Professor Hannah Garry testified before the Canadian House of Commons’ Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on the unfolding atrocity situation in Cameroon. …Continue Reading Clinic Director Professor Hannah Garry testifies before the Canadian House of Commons on the unfolding atrocity situation in Cameroon

The Clinic Joins In Signing Onto A Letter to the Biden Administration Re: U.S. participation in the third Universal Periodic Review of the United States

  • Publication date February 19, 2021

As one of the members of the US Human Rights Network (USHRN), the Clinic signed onto a letter to the Biden administration urging the administration to “meaningfully participate in the UPR in March” and pursue “thoughtful, strategic, and creative ways to improve engagement with human rights mechanisms to live up to longstanding U.S. values, commitments and obligations” and take action….Continue Reading The Clinic Joins In Signing Onto A Letter to the Biden Administration Re: U.S. participation in the third Universal Periodic Review of the United States

The Clinic Joins More than 70 Non-Governmental Organizations, Faith-Based Groups, and Academic Institutions Call for the Biden Administration to Repeal ICC Sanctions

  • Publication date February 18, 2021

The International Human Rights Clinic has joined more than 70 organizations in urging “the Biden Administration to engage constructively with the International Criminal Court (ICC). The U.S. government’s support for the ICC could help secure justice for victims in situations from Myanmar to Darfur, just as it helped facilitate the February 4 historic conviction of a former leader of an armed rebel group for war crimes and crimes against humanity in northern Uganda.”…Continue Reading The Clinic Joins More than 70 Non-Governmental Organizations, Faith-Based Groups, and Academic Institutions Call for the Biden Administration to Repeal ICC Sanctions

USC Gould International Human Rights Clinic signs onto a letter urging President Biden to close Guantánamo

  • Publication date February 4, 2021

The USC Gould International Human Rights Clinic joins 111 organizations as a signatory to a letter led by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture. The letter urges President Biden to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. …Continue Reading USC Gould International Human Rights Clinic signs onto a letter urging President Biden to close Guantánamo

U.S.-Based Civil Society Organizations Demand International Attention and Action to the Systemic Anti-Black Racism in the Criminal Legal System

  • Publication date November 3, 2020

IHRC joined the ACLU and 20 other civil society organizations in drafting this statement for UN Missions to pay explicit attention to the structures of oppression in our country that marginalize and criminalize people of African descent, and violate both their human rights as well as their civil rights under the U.S. Constitution….Continue Reading U.S.-Based Civil Society Organizations Demand International Attention and Action to the Systemic Anti-Black Racism in the Criminal Legal System