Global Human Rights Clinic
Our Global Human Rights Clinic aims to nurture the next generation of global human rights advocates to promote and protect international human rights. We offer learning opportunities to emerging human rights professionals enabling them to directly contribute to the development and monitoring of human rights, including through the United Nations human rights mechanisms.
“We foster an experiential learning environment, where we can open doors and expand opportunities for emerging human rights practitioners to gain hands-on mentoring and practice.”
Our Projects
We prioritise working on current and emerging human rights issues of concern, particularly in instances where we can build on existing strategic leverage points, to ensure our engagement has the capacity to make a timely and impactful contribution. We build collaborative teams that include participants who are students, recent graduates, and new practitioners, from across the globe, who work with human rights experts to gain practical experience in real human rights projects, in particular related to the United Nations human rights mechanisms.
Global Repression of Civil Society
Providing ongoing legal advice and support to NGOs at risk in their home countries due to repression of civil society by their governments, including the creation and registration of new legal entities.
How to Stand Up for Human Rights in the New Dystopian Era
An online course for non-specialists, providing an understanding of what human rights are, what it means to be a human rights defender, exactly what steps you can take to make a real difference to the world today, and how to feel safe and take care of yourself and those around you while standing up for human rights.
Other projects include
Fighting Trump's 'Muslim Travel Ban'
Right to Housing in New Zealand
Conditions in Immigration Detention in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Nauru
Forced Evictions in Ghana
NGO participation in New Zealand UPR
Australia’s implementation of UPR recommendations
Right to Health and Forced Immigration Detention in Papua New Guinea
We train human rights professionals
to change the world
“I undertook an Internship at the Global Human Rights Clinic. At that time I had discovered my passion for human rights but was unsure how to pursue a career in the field. This experience opened up the world of human rights for me by giving me the space to pursue research interests and showing me the ropes of the United Nations.”
— Sophie P., Global Human Rights Clinic Intern