International Human Rights and Grady Hospital in Atlanta

Recently, the Oinonen Law Group LLC wrote a request for precautionary measures to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on behalf of Grady Hospital dialysis patients.

The international human rights petition resulted in the Commission officially contacting the U.S. government and requesting that the U.S. respond to the petitioners' allegations in addition to addressing the issue of medical treatment necessary for their survival. The Commission's action represents the first step in deciding whether to grant precautionary measures. The decision should be made some time soon.

The petition was officially submitted by the Oinonen Law Group LLC and Lindsay R.M. Jones. Mr. Jones who is lead counsel for the Grady patients, whose U.S. court case is currently to be submitted for appeal.

Grady dialysis patients lives are threatened due to the hospital attempting to deny the rights of the patients in accordance with a legally binding contract. The patients, third party beneficiaries to a legally binding contract, were denied the informed consent they are entitled to by law when Grady representatives told the patients that leaving the state was their only option. Moreover, Grady implored the patients to sign an agreement that reduced their contactual right of one year of treatment to three months.

For more information on international human rights and Grady Hospital, please contact Mario Williams at the Oinonen Law Group LLC at 404-654-0288

International Human Rights Law Institute

The International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) is at the forefront of contemporary human rights and rule of law research, training and advocacy. Since its founding in 1990, IHRLI has designed and managed projects around the world on post-conflict justice, human rights documentation and analysis, capacity building for legal professionals, gender rights and human trafficking. IHRLI conducts scholarly research on international criminal law, international humanitarian law and a variety of human rights and rule of law issues. IHRLI also prepares DePaul law students, activists and scholars for careers in human rights through courses, fellowship programs, internships and research opportunities in Chicago and abroad.

International Human Rights Internships in Cambodia

Our Human Rights internships in Cambodia are based in the capital city of Phnom Penh. The placement gives interns the opportunity to work on alongside a respected humanitarian organization while also gaining first-hand experience in human rights law in practice.

Interns must have completed at least three years of a related undergraduate degree and have a strong interest in human rights issues. Interns with related degrees or relevant work experience are also encouraged to apply.

Interns need to commit to at least 2 months on a Human Rights internship in Cambodia.
Human Rights Internships Abroad in Cambodia

Human Rights interns in Cambodia Human Rights interns workwith the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), our partner Human Rights organization in Phnom Penh. The organization is a non-profit NGO that focuses on a variety of Human Rights issues through promoting people's rights, legal education, and consultation. The organization represents local communities and develops laws to protect their interests. CLEC also trains groups like the Employers Council in workers rights and trains Commune councils so they understand their rights.

Recent areas that CLEC have been involved in include educating pregnant women on labor laws and helping groups that have been evicted from certain areas gain compensation for losing their land.

Interning with Projects Abroad in Phnom Penh would be a valuable addition to your resume and might just secure you that lucrative first job once you graduate.
International Human Rights Experience with Projects Abroad

Your precise role will be determined by your background and level of interest in specific areas. Interns work under the supervision of the local staff and will work in one of four departments: labor, good governance, natural resources and access to justice.

The vast majority of the work is office-based, though you may occasionally have the opportunity to join site visits within Phnom Penh or the surrounding provinces.

Interns working in any of the four departments can expect to be involved in researching and collecting documents, compiling reports, and editing and translating written materials.

Interns will need to have excellent English skills and should be flexible, proactive, and hardworking. You will be a representative of a professional organization and must take your position seriously to meet the demands of this rewarding internship.

International Human Rights Lawyer

Dr. Doebbler is an expert in international law, particularly international human rights law.

He has earned law degrees from New York Law School in the United States (a Juris Doctors); Nijmegen University in the Netherlands (a Meesterstitel in European law, comparative constitutional law and international law [europees recht, vergelijkende staatsrecht en volkenrecht]); and London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D. in public international law, specialized in international human rights law). He has also been awarded a diploma in Public International Law by the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law in the Den Haag, Nederland.

He earned first degrees in journalism and English literature from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA.

His clients have included heads of state, governments, non-government organizations and, particularly some of the most vulnerable and oppressed individuals in the world.

Dr. Doebbler practices law before the International Court of Justice, the African Commission and Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, and the United Nations Treaty bodies. Almost all of his work is pro bono. Click on the "Contact Dr Doebbler" tab to the left to find out how you can contact Dr. Doebbler about your case or a human rights violation anywhere in the world.

He does not usually take domestic cases, but may be involved as 'of counsel' or as cooperating counsel with lawyers on cases raising significant international law issues or constitutional issues of international importance.

He is also admitted to practice law in the United States in District of Columbia, the Court of Appeal of the Fourth Circuit, the US Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Supreme Court.

Currently he is also a Professor of Law at An-Najah National University and a visiting professor at Webster University (Geneva), and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. He often lectures at conferences and at universities around the world.

Dr. Doebbler works with about two dozen volunteers around the world at any one time. They are individuals who are committed to promoting and protecting international human rights law and have been selected from among dozens of applicants. Many are former students, some are lawyers or professor of law, all work with Dr. Doebbler under his close supervision.

International Human Rights Law LLM

This course is aimed at graduates from all over the world that are keen to develop an expertise in the evolving discipline of international human rights law. The programme is intended to empower successful candidates to become human rights practitioners, critical scholars, innovators and masters of their chosen disciplines.

Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network

The "Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network" encourages U.S. compliance with international human rights law, including through the U.N. and Inter-American Human Rights systems and the development of strategies to use human rights law in U.S. courts and domestic policy-making and debate.

The Network's 390 members are drawn from domestic social justice organizations, the U.S. programs of international human rights groups and law school human rights programs. HRI convenes the Network through semi-annual meetings and provides coordination on projects as needed.

Based on the principle that all rights are interdependent, many of these strategies crosscut different rights-based movements and respond to a growing need among domestic public interest lawyers to work together to meet common threats, such as the across-the-board attack on federal rights and the roll-back of federal social safety nets. As part of its work to develop the use of U.N. and regional mechanisms by domestic activists, HRI worked with the U.S. Human Rights Network to coordinate and provide technical support for domestic organizations interested in participating in the review of U.S. treaty compliance by the UN CERD Committee.

The BHRH Lawyers' Network serves as a forum for information sharing, strategic discussions and relationship building. The Network held its  Spring 2010 Network Meeting on May 25, 2010. The meeting was preceded by an international legal research training session with Kyle Courtney, Reference/Electronic Services Librarian at Northeastern University School of Law.  We are pleased to share Kyle's PowerPoint presentation and research training outline.

The Fall 2009 Network meeting was held on October 8, 2009. Attending members included representatives from law school human rights programs, international human rights groups and civil rights groups. The meeting was followed by a panel on Human Rights and Detention featuring Sir Nigel Rodley and a number of U.S. attorneys working on different aspects of detention.

The Network also held its annual meeting with staff of the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) on October 26, 2009. The newly formed Inter-American Working Group also met with representatives of the U.S. State Department for the first time.
HRI continues to grow the Lawyers' Network membership. If you would like to join the Network and the new listserv, please contact Vicki Esquivel-Korsiak at vesqui@law.columbia.edu.

International Human Rights Law

According to freemylife.com, International human rights law is a system of laws, domestic, regional, and international designed to promote human rights. Human rights law is made up of various international human rights instruments which are binding to its parties.

An important concept within human rights law is that of universal jurisdiction. This concept, is not widely accepted, is that any nation is authorized to prosecute and punish violations of human rights wherever and whenever that may have occurred. Some customary norms in human rights law are also recognized and these are considered binding on all nations, even if they have not ratified any relevant treaties. International human rights law is carried out on a domestic level and nation states that ratify international human rights law treaties, commit themselves to enact domestic human rights legislations. In addition to international human rights law, human rights law has been created on a regional level. These three main regional statutes regarding international human rights law are African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, the American Convention on Human rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights. International human rights law is related to, but not the same as international humanitarian law, and refugee law. Areas such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide have their own treaty laws.

The premier ruling on international human rights law is the Universal Declaration of Human rights. While this charter is not a form of legally binding international human rights law, it is the status quo on this topic. Some legal experts postulate that the UDHR is the basis for customary international law, and has become the premier reference in international human rights law. The international human rights law movement began after WWII and was strengthened when the United nations General Assembly adopted the UDHR. International human rights treaties and other instruments adopted have granted legal form on innate human rights and developed the body of international human rights law.

Under international human rights law, there are clear obligations that states are bout to respect and by becoming a part of international treaties, nations are signing on to do their part to protect international human rights law. There is a struggle in many places of the world where these laws are not being upheld. Currently, places such as the Darfur region in Sudan and Sierra Leone are extremely volatile with a great deal of political unrest. There humans are being denied their very basic rights therefore it is quite imperative that international human rights law exists and that there is an international forum in which to try criminals to violate these laws.