Project Aids Countries in Transition
With the support of Professor Philip Heymann ’60, a joint Harvard project seeks to foster cooperation and progress for countries in transition.
Assessing the Universal Declaration
Professor Mary Ann Glendon and Makau Mutua LL.M. ’85 S.J.D. ’87 weigh in on this influential half-century-old human rights document (1948), a major topic at the fall celebration of HRP’s 15th anniversary.
The Human Rights Program at fifteen
Professor Henry Steiner ’55, founder of the program, reflects on the agenda of HRP at Harvard and beyond, and the HLS graduates “battling in the trenches” for the human rights movement worldwide.
Koh’s Human Rights Agenda
“My job is to try to advance and increase human freedom, through reporting, persuasion, criticism, and advocacy,” says Yale Law School Professor Harold Hongju Koh ’80, who became assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in November 1998.