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Since its establishment in 2002, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice has worked to bring together and expand the rich array of teaching, research, clinical, internship, and publishing activities undertaken within the Law School on issues of international human rights law. While the work of the Center is enthusiastically supported by the Law School and NYU at large, the operational funding comes principally through generous grants from institutions or foundations and gifts from individuals.

Opportunities to Support the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

Individual Gifts

Below is a description of giving opportunities available to those individuals interested in supporting the Center’s projects. All contributions are tax-deductible. For more information about specific focus areas, please see below.

Donation Options:

• Online/electronic: You can donate online by clicking here, which will direct you to a secure web page housed by NYU School of Law’s Development Office, which handles all donations to the Center. Please note that you should specify “other” when asked to make a designation for the destination of your funds and then in the box provided, fill in CHRGJ and any specific program, if you want your support to be attached to a particular area of focus (see below for descriptions)
• Fax/Mail-in: You can print out this contribution form, then mail or fax it to:
  Jeannie Forrest
  New York University School of Law
  Office of Development and Alumni Relations
  161 Avenue of the Americas, 5th Floor
  New York, NY 10013

How Your Support is used

Center Projects

As previously mentioned, your financial support can be directly applied to a particular focus of the Center’s many areas of work, so if you have strong preference, don’t hesitate to specify that on your pledge form. The Center’s programmatic activities are primarily supported by donations from individuals and foundations. Among other things, these funds go toward supporting our research and investigative work, including missions to countries where we have clients or partners; documentation, printing, and disseminating groundbreaking reports; convening meetings and public seminars on these issues; as well as outreach and advocacy work.

The Center’s major areas of work concern the following thematic areas:

• Detainees and the “War on Terror” –The Center’s cutting edge legal analysis exposes the practices of extraordinary rendition, disappearances, and detainee abuse as violations of domestic, regional and international law.
• Racial Profiling and the "War on Terror" –The Center addresses the disparate impacts of the "war on Terror," on particular communities both within and outside of the U.S. Governments around the world have institutionalized a policy of discriminatory profiling of individuals deemed to be terrorism "suspects" on the basis of their race, religion, ethnicity, and/or national origin.
• Caste Discrimination –The Center consistently works to widen the human rights movement’s anti-discrimination agenda to move beyond the race paradigm to also look at discrimination based on caste, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration status, as well as race.
• Economic, Social and, Cultural Rights –The Center analyzes problems of implementation of these rights at the national level, examining the roles played by institutional actors, and fostering dialogue between the development and human rights communities.
• Extrajudicial Executions –The Center provides rigorous analysis of international law protecting the right to life and to support the work of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Philip Alston, the Center’s Faculty Director and Chair, was appointed Special Rapporteur in 2004.
• Transitional Justice –The Center brings together teaching, research, conferences and student field work on issues confronting transitional societies.

For more information about giving opportunities, please contact:

Kelly Ryan, CHRGJ Program Assistant
Tel: 212-998-6714
ryank@juris.law.nyu.edu

To find out more about our work on specific topics, please contact:

Veerle Opgenhaffen, CHRGJ Program Director
Tel: 212-992-8186
opgenhaffen@juris.law.nyu.edu