Past Projects

Rightslink seeks traditional and innovative human rights projects. Past projects include:

• Conducted research on Alien Tort Claims Act cases, customary international environmental law, and on non-profit organizations representing clients under contingency fee arrangements (with the Center for Justice and Accountability).
• Compiled statutes and international and domestic caselaw relating to rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and matrimonial property rights, to assist with brief preparation (with International Women's Rights Action Watch -- Asia Pacific, Malaysia).
• Researched information on Namibia's ratification of international treaties and conventions (with the Legal Assistance Center, Namibia).
• Researched accounts of the involvement of children in armed conflict for inclusion in organization's publication (with the Rädda Barnen (Save the Children) Foundation, Sweden).
• Researched information on Namibia's ratification of international treaties and conventions (with the Legal Assistance Center, Namibia).
• Compiled CEDAW country reports (with International Women's Rights Action Watch -- Asia Pacific, Malaysia).
• Provided U.S. rules of evidence rules concerning testimony by victims of sexual harassment and domestic violence, as well as domestic violence laws of a number of developing countries, in support of a proposal to reform Namibia's domestic violence laws (with the Legal Assistance Center, Namibia).
• Examined domestic caselaw on violations of the Genocide Convention and on the duty of governments to investigate and prosecute human rights violations, to assist preparation of a report recommending that the Taiwanese government redress human rights violations which occurred during a period of martial law (with the Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Taiwan).
• Researched East European criminal justice systems to assist Roma plaintiffs bring their cases before the European Court of Human Rights (with the European Roma Rights Center, Hungary).
• Compiled cases on tort liability and offenses related to HIV-transmission (with the Lawyers Collective, India).
• Assisted disabled plaintiffs by researching U.S. law on employment discrimination (with the Free Legal Assistance Group, Philippines).
• Provided treaties and materials on the rights of the child (with an Argentinean Columbia Law School alumnus).
• Researched legal education practices for a presentation to visiting East European Scholars (with the Public Interest Law Initiative at Columbia Law School).
• Supported an asylum-seeker by researching human rights conditions in Afghanistan (with the Legal Aid Society's Immigration Unit).
• Assisted legal representation of AIDS patients by researching law on discrimination against HIV-positive persons (with the Lawyers Collective, India).
• Researched caselaw on discrimination in public transportation and other public facilities (with the Israel Women's Network, Israel).
• Compiled reports of violations of journalist's rights in Chechnya (with the Glasnost Defense Foundation, Russia).
• Researched information on human rights conditions in Zaire (with the Legal Aid Society's Immigration Unit).
• Compiled reports on state parties to CEDAW (with Legal Aid of Cambodia, Cambodia).
• Examined California legislation on hazardous waste, and legal rules of liability for environmental degradation and mining-related injury (with the Free Legal Assistance Group, Philippines).
• Assisted a Liberian citizen's gender persecution claim (with the Legal Aid Society's Immigration Unit).
• Provided information on the InterAmerican system for the protection of human rights (with a member of Uruguay's Congress).
• Conducted an extensive comparative study of res judicata in diverse legal systems (with the International Court of Justice, the Hague).
• Researched discrimination against persons of Lebanese descent in Cote D'Ivoire, and a question of resettlement of Lebanese nationals in West Africa (with the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Center).
• Studied demonstrations and political protests in Ghana (with Amnesty International).
• Researched the culpability of doctors who collaborated with Brazil's military regime (with the Center for Popular Education and Assistance (CEAP), Brazil).
• Researched human rights conditions in Montenegro, Cote D'Ivoire, Mauritania, Senegal, and the Punjab (with the Legal Aid Society's Immigration Unit).
• Provided information on bilingualism and constitutional rights in Canada, Belgium and Switzerland (with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Israel).
• Compiled leading cases on the abolition of the mandatory death penalty in the United States (with the Free Legal Assistance Group, Philippines).
• Specified cases on HIV, worker's rights, and criminal law (with the Lawyers Collective, India).
• Researched U.N. and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights material on Argentina (with the Andean Commission of Jurists, Peru).