News & Advocacy

Ensuring accountability for journalist Omar Radi

  • Publication date December 26, 2019

In collaboration with the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch, IHRC student attorneys Sophie Sylla, Krisha Mae Cabrera, and David Wright worked to focus on countries that weaponize courts against marginalized groups, activists, and individuals who speak truth to power with the goal of training monitors and drafting a report to hold prosecutors and judges accountable…Continue Reading Ensuring accountability for journalist Omar Radi

Clinic defends human rights defenders

  • Publication date November 10, 2018

By Christina Schweighofer In their respective home countries, Anna and Rachel stood up for other women — until they too became victims, targeted specifically for their human rights activism. Both women fled to the United States, where their applications for asylum were approved thanks to the work of four students in the International Human Rights…Continue Reading Clinic defends human rights defenders

Transitional Justice and Accountability for Crimes against Humanity in Tunisia

  • Publication date September 18, 2018

Prof. Hannah Garry, director of the International Human Rights Clinic, moderated a discussion Sept. 18, 2018, about the work of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission. Discussants: Prof. Belghith Brahim, Higher Institute of Technologies of Kairaouan, Tunisia Kathy Roberts, deputy director of the Transitional Justice Clinic, and senior legal advisor to the Center for Justice and…Continue Reading Transitional Justice and Accountability for Crimes against Humanity in Tunisia

Clinic wins litigation on behalf of Iranian Refugees

  • Publication date September 5, 2018

USC International Human Rights Clinic student attorneys Matt Saria, ’19, Ashley De Vance, ’19, Bettina Tiangco, ’19 and Natalia Da Silva, ’19 worked in partnership with the International Refugee Assistance Project to file motions for class certification and summary judgment in U.S. district court in the northern district of CA to reverse the unprecedented mass…Continue Reading Clinic wins litigation on behalf of Iranian Refugees

IHRC and Access Now urge UN to address human rights violations committed against Anglophone Cameroonians

  • Publication date March 6, 2018

USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic and Access Now Urge United Nations to Address Human Rights Violations Committed Against Anglophone Cameroonians LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2018 – The University of Southern California Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) and Access Now, together with legal counsel, Foley Hoag LLP, are…Continue Reading IHRC and Access Now urge UN to address human rights violations committed against Anglophone Cameroonians

IHRC and Access Now urge United Nations to address violations committed against Anglophone Cameroonians

  • Publication date March 6, 2018

LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2018 – The University of Southern California Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) and Access Now, together with legal counsel, Foley Hoag LLP, are urging the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, to address recent human rights violations committed by the Republic of…Continue Reading IHRC and Access Now urge United Nations to address violations committed against Anglophone Cameroonians