With our innovative courses, globally renowned experts and opportunities to launch students into human rights careers, there is no better place to study human rights law than The Promise Institute.

2024 Symposium:
Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence

Letter to President Biden on Nagorno/Karabakh-Artsakh

Marking the 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention, Executive Director Prof. Hannah R. Garry and other experts call on the Biden administration to put words to action for accountability for international crimes by Azerbaijan against displaced Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Concrete measure are needed NOW to prevent further atrocities including: impose sanctions, withhold military aid and establish a fact-finding mission.

Read the Letter to President Biden

Indigenous Land Defenders of Brazil: In Memoriam (2019-2022)

Our November 2023 report looks at the deaths of thirteen Indigenous leaders along with emerging regions of risk in Brazil, and is unique in the way that it maps the threat Indigenous land defenders face as they stand up to extractivists.

Promise Institute Assistant Director and head of our Digital Investigations Lab, Prof. Jess Peake noted “The report is a powerful advocacy tool which highlights a small fraction of the deaths of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, many of which remain otherwise invisible to outside communities.”

Learn More about the Defenders and our Report

Human Rights Litigation Clinic joins Mirmehdi Brothers before the IACHR

Watch the recording of the Mirmehdi Brothers, accompanied by students from our Human Rights Litigation Clinic, testifying in Washington D.C. before the IACHR on the brothers’ 41 month arbitrary detention and U.S. courts’ denial of remedy.

Watch the Recording of the Hearing

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