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Senior diplomats spoke about the evolution of human rights policy at a day-long conference to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and L…

Panelists discussed war crimes tribunals, both past and present, and if the legal infrastructure the world’s leading democracies have struggled to establish since the Nuremberg trials of 194…

Brandt Goldstein talked about his book Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won, published by Scribner. The book told the story of a team of Yale law …

State Department officials released the international reports on human rights, detailing the state of human rights around the globe. Speakers talked on the State Department compiled annual r…

Department officials talked to reporters about the release of the report, Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo: An Accounting, which details the extent of the process and specific incidents of atrocit…

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright released a report detailing atrocities and war crimes by Serbian forces operating in Kosovo. Before issuing the report she expressed sorrow over the acc…

Witnesses testified about human rights violations around the globe. Of particular interest were violations in China, Africa, and Guatemala.