Human Rights Unscripted

Darren Domah provides legal counsel for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Liberia, and serves as a legal advisor to the Maryland Oil Palm Plantation and the Cavalla Rubber Plantation in West Africa. He is currently a Humphrey Fellow at Washington College of Law. We spoke with Mr. Domah about Liberia's turbulent past and why the country so desperately needs a war crimes tribunal.

For more information on Liberia, click (here).

Arturo Castellanos is a Policy and Advocacy Associate at the National Immigration Forum. We spoke with him about the subject of his dissertation, the Right of Suffrage of Shosics (Non-Citizens) in the United States, and discussed the past, present, and future status of voting rights for non-citizens in America.

To access Arturo's dissertation, the Right of Suffrage of Shosics (Non-Citizens) in the United States, click (here).

For more information on Arturo's work with the National Immigration Forum, click (here).

We sit down with Professor Robert Goldman, Louis C. James Scholar at the American University Washington College of Law, where Professor Goldman also serves as Faculty Director of the War Crimes Research Office and Co-Director of WCL’s Center For Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In addition to teaching, practicing, and writing in the areas of International Human Rights Law and Terrorism, Professor Goldman is one of the leading authors of the creation of soft-law guiding principles and was elected President of the International Commission of Jurists. Professor Goldman shares his journey and thoughts on his experiences in the international human rights field.

To learn more about Professor Goldman, click (here).

We sit down with Professor Herman Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of Law at the American University Washington College of Law, whose decades-long career has focused on issues of civil rights and civil liberties as they have played out in courts and prisons across the globe. He founded, among other causes, the ACLU Prison Project and formerly chaired the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.

To learn more about Professor Schwartz, click (here).

We sit down with Professor Juan Méndez, former Special Rapporteur on Torture and professor of International Human Rights at the American University Washington College of Law, where he also leads the Anti-Torture Initiative as Faculty Director with WCL’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Professor Méndez shares with us his own story of getting started in human rights law and how the field has progressed throughout his career.

To learn more about Professor Méndez, click (here) or (here).

To watch a short film on Professor Méndez produced by UN Human Rights, "Juan Méndez: Campaigner Against Torture", click (here).

For more information on the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations, click (here).