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Soledad García Muñoz Joins Georgetown Law as the Drinan Chair in Human Rights

Ecofeminist human rights and environmental lawyer and former Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights at the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights Soledad García Muñoz will join Georgetown Law as the 2023-2024 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights.

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Pompeo’s new commission undermines universal human rights — just as planned

July 17, 2020 Opinions

"The burning human rights problem for the Trump administration," write Elisa Massimino and Alexandra Schmitt, "[is] that too many 'subgroups' — read, women, LGBTQ people, black people, poor people, native peoples — are demanding rights, including (gasp) in 'domestic political discourse.' America’s rights tradition is under attack, Pompeo claimed, by people who have forgotten a fundamental truth: 'America is special. America is good.'"

Human rights lessons of the pandemic

April 24, 2020 Opinions

"From its quick spread across continents, to the disrupted global supply chains for life-saving supplies, to international networks sharing vital information on treatments and cures, the life-and-death connections between people and nations are now in stark relief. But most importantly, the coronavirus is demonstrating how human rights violations left to fester, even in societies far from our own, carry direct costs for all of us," write Elisa Massimino and Alexandra Schmitt.