Human Rights

The U.S. Human Rights Online website supports lawyers working to "bring human rights home." Dedicated to supporting the domestic implementation of human rights law, Human Rights Online's library provides model briefs, pleadings and articles on the use of human rights law in U.S. courts. The library also includes information about U.S.human rights treaty obligations, reports on domestic human rights violations, and proceedings involving the U.S. in U.N. and other international forums.

This practice area is hosted by the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School.

Unlike some other probono.net sites, U.S. Human Rights Online does not serve as clearinghouse for pro bono work.

Our Library's Indigenous Rights folder was developed in conjunction with Indigenous Rights Watch under the direction of Keli Lovejoy.

If you would like to contribute to the Human Rights Online Library, please email c.lopez@law.columbia.edu.

This practice area was initiated by Professor Catherine Powell, former Faculty Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School and founder of its Bringing Human Rights Home Project.

Participating Organizations:

American Civil Liberties Union
Amnesty International USA
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law
Columbia Law School Center for Public Interest Law
Fordham Law School's Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School
Human Rights Watch
International Human Rights Clinic, George Washington University Law School
Global Rights
International Women's Human Rights Clinic, CUNY Law School
Law and Public Policy Project, Columbia School of Public Health
Human Rights First
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Legal Momentum
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative