Past News

• International Pro Bono Opportunities
  Panel at the Boston Bar Association April 14, 2008 at 5:30p.m.
• Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
  Join Assistant Prosecutor Anees Ahmed of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a discussion of recent developments and the substantive and procedural issues likely to be raised before the tribunal.
• Jessup International Law Demonstration Argument: Human Rights and Terrorism
  Quarterfinalist Jessup International Law Moot Court Team gives demonstration argument.
• Observing the 10th Anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty
  For the 10th anniversary of the Mine Ban Treaty, join the CILP and UNMAS Policy Coordination Officer Gabriele Russo for a discussion of the legal framework surrounding mine action.
• International Law and Women's Rights
  CILP Speaker Series with Maria Graterol Garrido, April 2 at 1:30 in room 503
• Human Rights in Post-Election Kenya
  CILP Speaker Series, March 26, 2008 at 1:30 in Room 501
• Human Rights Conference Focuses on Africa
  March 15 event was followed by fund raising concert
• Former Deputy Counsel to speak on Oil-for-Food Programme
  The CILP Speaker Series Presents: International Corruption and the Oil-for-Food Programme, March 10, 2008
• Symposium, Panel Examine Bhopal, Feb. 6 & 8
  The Bhopal Tragedy Approaches 25: Looking Back to Look Forward
• Instances of Complicity in Human Rights Violations:
  "Extraordinary Rendition, Human Trafficking, and Torture." The New England Journal of International and Comparative Law's 2008 Symposium, Friday, Jan. 25.

Afghanistan Projects on Torture and Women's Rights

This project completed in 2006, was undertaken at the request of Amnesty International. It focuses on two human rights issues in Afghanistan — torture and women's rights.The main task of the torture component is to analyze the Afghan penal code for compliance with the UN Convention Against Torture, to which Afghanistan is a party, and to examine the legal competence of the Afghan judiciary to prosecute cases of torture committed by foreign soldiers operating in the territory.The women's rights component focuses on the issue of violence against women. The Center's primary task is to analyze the Afghan penal code with a view to making recommendations on amendments that would enable the Afghan justice system to better prevent and respond to acts of violence against women.

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