Having Coffee With . . . Diane Desierto: Using the law to pursue civil rights goals
July 01, 2024
Diane Desierto spends a lot of time thinking about dictators and autocratic regimes. Her life’s work focuses on fighting the global spread of authoritarianism.
“The thing we should be concerned about is how ‘human rights’ has been co-opted by the dictators and the authoritarians and distorted,” says Desierto, a professor of law and global affairs, faculty director of the Notre Dame Law School’s master’s degree program in international human rights law and director of its new Global Human Rights Clinic.
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Expert from Notre Dame explains ongoing crisis in Haiti
March 14, 2024
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - As violence continues to escalate in Haiti, the U.S. is planning to send more Marines to beef up security at the embassy there.
But even with that, Americans are trapped in the increasingly chaotic country.
Many of you may be confused about what’s happening there and why, so we brought Jean Marc Brissau to The WNDU Studios on Thursday to give us some perspective.
He’s a graduate programs manager at Notre Dame Law School and is Haitian.
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The situation of Venezuela before the International Criminal Court: Advances and challenges of the first investigation in the Americas
January 08, 2024
The Venezuelan investigation continues to advance at the International Criminal Court. This is the first investigation in the Americas before the Court and the first in history to be referred by the States Parties to the Rome Statute. Although the investigation at the ICC and those of the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission have recently played a deterrent role in Venezuela that may have had an impact on the possible reduction of crimes committed by the State, this has not meant the real dismantling of the repressive structures in the country, since human rights violations continue to occur.
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