Press

Press Contacts

CHRGJ welcomes calls and inquiries from the national and international press. Following is a list of subject areas about which Center staff is available for comment.

For general inquiries, please contact Veerle Opgenhaffen at:
Telephone: (212) 992-8186
Facsimile: (212) 995-4590
Email: opgenhaffen@juris.law.nyu.edu

Philip Alston

Faculty Director and Chair, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

Special Adviser to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals

Executions and killings, including death penalty, targeted killings, deaths in custody, use of lethal force by law enforcement or military personnel, etc.
Human rights and international economic institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The Human Rights Council and United Nations reform
International labor rights
European human rights policies

Smita Narula

Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law

Co-Founder, International Dalit Solidarity Network

Advisory Committee Member for ENSAAF and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

Caste discrimination and Hindu nationalism
Human rights in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh)
Racial profiling in Counter-Terrorism
Use of lethal force (‘shoot-to-kill’ policies) in counter-terrorism
Corporate accountability for human rights violations
Human rights and international economic institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank
Economic and Social Rights

Margaret Satterthwaite

Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law

Member, Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA

Co-Chair, International Human Rights Interest Group, American Society of International Law

Advisory Committee Chair, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

Human Rights in counter-terrorism including extraordinary rendition, secret detention and proxy prisons
Migrants’ rights
Women’s rights; gender, sexuality and human rights
Human rights in Haiti

Paul van Zyl

Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Director, Transitional Justice Program, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

Program Director, the International Center for Transitional Justice

Transitional justice with a special focus on truth commissions, reparation programs, international justice, institutional reform and reconciliation strategies

Sarah Knuckey

Director, Project on Extrajudicial Executions

Executions and killings, including death penalty, targeted killings, deaths in custody, use of lethal force by law enforcement or military personnel, etc.

Jayne Huckerby

Research Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice

Human Rights in counter-terrorism including extraordinary rendition, secret detention and proxy prisons
Racial profiling in Counter-Terrorism
Use of lethal force (‘shoot-to-kill’ policies) in counter-terrorism

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