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Archive for March, 2011

Prof. Lisa Davis to Testify Before The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

March 23, 2011

CUNY Law Adjunct Professor Lisa Davis, who teaches in the Law School’s International Women’s Human Rights Clinic (IWHR), will testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on March 25th in Washington, D.C. Davis,

CUNY Law’s PILA Featured on WBAI

March 18, 2011

CUNY Alum Suzanne Adely (’10), Fellow at the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, and CUNY Law students Golden McCarthy (’12), PILA Fellow at Safe Horizon Immigration Law Project and Alex van Schaick (’13), working on a Federal lawsuit

IWHR Students Return From Guatemala: Report to go to UN Human Rights Committee

March 17, 2011

Guatemala City – Students from the International Women’s Human Rights (IWHR) Clinic at CUNY School of Law, in collaboration with the New York-based women’s rights organization MADRE, just returned from Guatemala where they

Nitin Goyal (’10) Fights Repeated Violations of Farmworkers’ Rights

March 7, 2011

CUNY Law alum Nitin Kumar Goyal, who graduated last year and was in the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic, is directing a new program that provides direct legal aid and community education to poultry and livestock workers across North Carolina

Student Natasha Bannan Discusses Civil Rights Violations of Students at the University of Puerto Rico

March 4, 2011

3L Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, who is also Editor-in-Chief of the City University of New York Law Review and an Ella Baker Fellow, talks about the abuse of human and civil rights on the campus of the University of Puerto Rico

CLRN and YMCA Collaborate on “New American Initiative”

March 3, 2011

CLRN and the YMCA of Greater New York (“the Y”) have partnered to address the needs of New York City’s ever-growing immigrant community and to uphold the Y’s history of helping individuals

New Book by Joey Mogul (’97) on the Criminalization of LGBT People Featured in NY Times

March 3, 2011

Joey Mogul’s (’97) new book, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, is featured in the New York times. Mogul’s book calls attention to an issue often neglected by the press and policymakers

Mercedes Cano (’99) Featured in City’s Women’s History Month Video

March 1, 2011

A new video produced by the Mayor’s office for Women’s History Month features CUNY Law alum Mercedes Cano (’99)