Volume 60, Winter 2012 (PDF document)

  • HRA Annual Education Event: Violence Against Migrant Women
  • The UN Denies Justice to Haitian Cholera Victims
  • The U.S. Double Standard on Elections in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • The MDGs, SDGs, and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
  • News from Geneva
  • Litigation & Advocacy Updates

Volume 59, Summer 2012 (PDF document)

  • Connie de la Vega’s Presentation before the HRC
  • The UN CSW 56: A Disappointing Outcome
  • Food Insecurity and Women’s Personal Security
  • Chronic Malnutrition From a Gender Perspective
  • Juvenile Justice Sentencing Practices
  • The Death Row Phenomenon
  • The Perpetuation of Global Hunger
  • The Right to Adequate Housing
  • The Right to Vote
  • Human Rights Implications of Private Prisons
  • Haiti’s UPR: Baby Steps
  • Statement to the Human Rights Council
  • Private Military and Security Companies

Volume 58, Winter 2011/2012 (PDF document)

  • Advocacy at the UN
  • Haiti: Universal Periodic Review
  • Implications of Prison Privatization
  • Protection for the Human Rights of Migrants
  • Women’s Rights and Housing Rights in Haiti
  • Private Military and Security Regulation
  • Litigation: Excessive Sentencing of Juvenile Offender
  • HRA Newsmakers

Volume 57, Summer 2011 (PDF document)

  • Advocacy at the UN
  • Human Trafficking Prevention
  • Discrimination, Violence against Girls in School
  • International Human Rights and Juvenile Justice
  • A Strategy for the Realization of the Right to Food
  • Violations of the Prohibition Against Torture
  • Political Participation and Voting Rights
  • Violence Against Children Deprived of Liberty
  • Corporate Accountability Developments
  • Women’s Human Rights in Human Settlements
  • Unlawful Eviction of Haitians from Camps
  • HRA Annual Meeting
  • HRA Newsmakers

Volume 56, Winter 2010/2011 (PDF document)

  • HRA Celebrates Human Rights Day
  • UN Recognizes Right to Water and Sanitation
  • HRA at 14th Session of the Human Rights Council
  • Using the Right to Truth to Account for the Adverse Impact of Toxics on Human Rights
  • Panel at 15th Session of the Human Rights Council
  • HRA input to the Universal Periodic Review of US
  • UN Women: A New Agency Begins Its Work
  • HRA Co-sponsors Periodic Review Conference
  • Accountability in Haiti after the Earthquake
  • IACHR Rules Death Row Petition Admissible
  • Investigating Food Security and Women’s Empowerment in India and Nepal
  • Haiti: Hold new, open, fair elections

Volume 55, Summer 2010 (PDF document)

  • UN Commission on the Status of Women
  • Violence Against Migrant Women
  • Domestic Violence Against Women
  • Food Sovereignty
  • Human Rights While Countering Terrorism
  • Privatized Prisons and Human Rights
  • The Right To The Truth
  • Continued Violations of the Right to Vote
  • Alternatives to Incarceration for Juveniles
  • Developing Death Row Law
  • U.S. Supreme Court JLWOP ruling
  • UN Gender Equality Reform Victory

Volume 54, Winter 2010 (PDF document)

  • HRA Educational Event in Honor of Virginia Leary
  • Tribute to Virginia Leary
  • Housing is a Human Right
  • Enforcing Labor and Environmental Rights
  • Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
  • Universal Periodic Review: a New Form of Accountability
  • Gender Equality Architecture Reform
  • HRA Newsmakers

Volume 53, Summer 2009 (PDF document)

  • Advocacy at the UN
  • Migrant Domestic Worker Rights
  • Negotiating the CSW
  • Protecting Internally Displaced Persons
  • The Human Right to Water
  • The Human Right to Food
  • Accountability for Private Military and Security
  • Arbitrary Detention of Migrants
  • Juvenile Criminal Justice
  • Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights
  • The Right to Vote
  • Access to Public Information Laws
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Free Speech
  • GEAR-ing Up for UN Gender Reform
  • Remembering Virginia Leary

Volume 52, Winter 2008 (PDF document)

  • Tributes to Frank and Frannie Newman
  • CERD and the Question of Religion
  • Affirmative Action Requirements of CERD
  • Freedom Of Expression
  • Expansion of the Toxic Wastes Mandate
  • Bringing Justice to Cambodia
  • HRA Welcomes Laurel E. Fletcher
  • Human Rights Film Festival

Volume 51, Summer 2008 (PDF document)

  • Attending the CERD Meeting
  • Racism in the United States?
  • Gender-Responsive Budgeting at the CSW
  • Combating Trafficking of Women and Children
  • The Human Rights of Migrants
  • The Right to Vote
  • Suppressing Political Dissent in East Africa
  • Accountability of Private Military Companies
  • The Right to Water
  • The Human Rights Impact of E-wastes
  • Human Rights Issues in Iran and Tibet
  • In Memory of Frances Burks Newman

Volume 50, Winter 2007 (PDF document)

  • HRA’s Fall Event on Racial Discrimination
  • U.S. to be Reviewed by CERD Committee
  • Thoughts from Former Frank Newman Intern
  • HRA Newsmakers – New Publications from HRA Members

Volume 49, Summer 2007 (PDF document)

  • Advocacy at the UN
  • Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
  • Trafficking and Sexual Abuse of Girl Children
  • Donor Nations’ Obligations on Health Aid
  • Corporate Accountability and Toxic Waste
  • The Human Rights of Migrants
  • Violence Against Women During Armed Conflict
  • Voting, Human Rights and Peacekeeping
  • Death Row Phenomena and International Law
  • Life Without Parole Sentencing for Juveniles
  • Reforming U.S. JLWOP Sentencing Practices
  • Gender Equality at the United Nations
  • International Law and The Supreme Court’s Recent Affirmative Action Decision

Volume 48, Winter 2006 (PDF document)

  • Educational Event on Human Rights Issues at the UN
  • Corporate Accountability & Human Rights
  • Early Days of the Human Rights Council
  • Civil and Political Rights in the U.S.
  • Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
  • Immigration Reform
  • Death Penalty in Indonesia Challenged
  • Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case

Volume 47, Summer 2006 (PDF document)

  • U.N. Human Rights Council
  • U.N. Human Rights Committee
  • More HRA Advocacy at the U.N.
  • Advancing Women’s Political Participation
  • The Role of Militaries in Trafficking
  • Combating Trafficking in Persons
  • The Right to Water & Corporate Accountability
  • Promoting Juvenile Justice
  • Migrant Worker Rights Along State Borders
  • The Right to Vote
  • Arbitrary Detention in the Dusk of the CHR
  • The Labor Rights of Migrant Workers

Volume 46, Winter 2005 (PDF document)

  • HRA’s Fall Education Event
  • Shadow Report to Human Rights Committee
  • U.N. Congress on Crime Prevention
  • U.N. requests trafficking data
  • Church of Sudan v. Talisman
  • South African Apartheid Litigation
  • Letter to the U.N. General Assembly

Volume 43, Summer 2004 (PDF document)

  • Human Rights Advocates Annual Meeting
  • United Nations Meetings
  • The Role of Men and Boys in the Trafficking of Women and Children
  • Women’s Equal Participation in Peace Processes
  • The Juvenile Death Penalty and Life Without the Possibility of Parole
  • Arbitrary Detention
  • Protecting the Human Right to Water
  • Child Soldiers
  • The Impact of Poverty and Military Forces in Trafficking
  • Experience at the UN Commission on Human Rights
  • Access to Safe Drinking Water
  • Toxic Substances and Their Adverse Effects on Human Rights
  • Migrant Workers at the UN Commission on Human Rights

Volume 42, Winter 2003 (PDF document)

  • United Nations Sub-Commission
  • Transnational Corporations
  • In Memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello and Arthur Helton
  • Rolling Back Parts of the Patriot Act
  • Update on the Juvenile Death Penalty
  • The Death Penalty: Can Delay Render Execution Unlawful?
  • Convention for People with Disabilities

Volume 41, Summer 2003 (Word document)

  • HRA Annual Meeting
  • Participation at United Nations Meetings
  • Trafficking of Women and Children (at Commission on the Status of Women)
  • Commission on the Status of Women at CSW
  • Addressing the Causes of Trafficking at CSW (2 Articles)
  • Domestic Violence at CSW
  • Trafficking of Women and Children at Commission on Human Rights
  • Arbitrary Detention
  • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Illicit Transfer of Toxics: Privatization of Water
  • Juvenile Death Penalty
  • Migrant Worker Rights
  • HRA Joins Amicus Brief in Grutter v. Bollinger Supreme Court Case (Michigan Affirmative Action)
  • Supreme Court Decisions Cite Internationa Human Rights Law
  • Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
  • UN Efforts on Women, Housing, Land and Property

Volume 40, Winter 2002 (Word document)

  • Summary of HRA Activities at the 54th UN Sub-Commission
  • Working Group on Transnational Corporations
  • Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
  • Migrant Worker Rights
  • Review of Death Penalty Cases

Volume 39, Summer 2002 (Word document)

Vol. 37 Summer 2001

  • United Nations
  • Toxics
  • International Sex Trade
  • Migrant Worker Rights
  • Juvenile Death Penalty
  • Right to Adequate Housing
  • Impunity
  • U.N. Commission on the Status of Women
  • Corporate Accountability Project Report
  • 6th Symposium on Genital Integrity
  • Council of Europe gives US deadline on Death Penalty

Volume 36, Winter 2000 (Word document)

Publications and Resources

HRA publishes a newsletter twice a year, prints and distributes articles and papers, and supplements the UN/Human Rights Collection of the Law Library of the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and the Law Library at the University of California Hastings College of the Law with UN documents and other materials.

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