News and Events

In February 2010, PHRGE welcomed the Honorable Albie Sachs, justice (retired) of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who movingly spoke about “The Strange Alchemy of Life & Law.”

2010 | archive

10.14.10: Beyond National Security: Immigrant Communities and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Join us for the public sessions of this dynamic institute.

9.23.10: PHRGE is pleased to be a participating organization in the K. George and Carolann S. Najarian, M.D. Inaugural Lecture on Human Rights, an endowed program of the Armenian Heritage Foundation, held at Faneuil Hall.

07.20.10: Bay State judges build bridge to China: Exchange program offers rare, personal ties. The Boston Globe interviews Professor Margaret Y.K. Woo on the effictiveness of exchange programs for Chinese and Bay State judges.

07.12.10: A team of Northeastern University School of Law faculty and students, led by Associate Dean Martha Davis, has filed an amicus brief in Flores-Villar v. United States, an equal protection case before the United States Supreme Court. The case is a challenge to sex-based citizenship laws.

06.29.10: Join us for the New England premiere of "Coming Home: The Dry Storm," a documentary about the struggle of local activists in the face of the demolition of nearly all public housing New Orleands.

02.04.10: Justice Albie Sachs (retired), Constitutional Court of South Africa. (Video)

01.28.10: Gordon Human Rights Lecture. Justice Manuel Cepeda, Constitutional Court of Colombia (Video)

01.12.10: Ford Foundation Awards $300,000 to PHRGE