Established in 1994, Rights International fights for those rights recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights treaties. We operate independently of any political ideology, government, economic interest, or religious creed. Rights International is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, not-for-profit corporation.
Rights International’s goals are two-fold: to protect the human rights of our clients, and to advance the development of international human rights caselaw. We serve these goals through a number of means. Among them are:
• Representing victims of human rights violations in international tribunals, and filing amicus briefs before such tribunals. These international tribunals include

  the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.

• An on-going publications program, which has produced a two-volume work, International Human Rights Law & Practice (Kluwer Law International, 1997). Volume I contains extensive selections and excerpts of international human rights cases, together with comments and questions on them; Volume II is a comprehensive compilation of human rights instruments relevant to the human rights litigator.
       In addition, Rights International is publishing a Companion Series of three volumes. Two of them — one for Constitutional Law and one for Criminal Law and Procedure — have already been published, and a third — for Property Law — is forthcoming this year. These volumes are intended to be used in law school courses on those subjects, introducing students to the international human rights law dimensions of the problems in those areas.
• A Brief Bank, which provides downloadable model human rights briefs for practitioners. Some of these briefs are intended to be used as guides in presenting cases before international tribunals; others can be used in making international human rights law arguments before domestic courts.
• A Research Guide to resources, on-line and off-line, for human rights litigators.
We hope after this brief introduction you will want to get involved with Rights International! There are many ways you can do so, including through
• our Law School Consortium and Legal Directors Committee,
• our Cooperating Lawyer & Law Firm Program, and
• our Frank C. Newman Internship Program in International Human Rights Law.
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