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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Business and Industry Children Citizenship and Governance Coorporate Accountability Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Culture Development Education Energy Environment Family Governance Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Information International Law International Security Justice Labour Media Minority Rights New Global Institutions Peace and Security Private Sector Refugees Religion Social Development Sustainable Development Torture Trade and Development United Nations Funding United Nations Reform Values Violence Water Women Women/gender Equality Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Human rights of women Millennium Development Goals Violence against women Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Gender equality Health
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Iraq Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Cambodia Indonesia Saudi Arabia Mexico Serbia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Sudan Libya Malawi Uganda Israel Afghanistan Netherlands Russian Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina El Salvador Rwanda India Croatia Sierra Leone Pakistan Thailand State of Palestine Democratic Republic of the Congo
Millennium Development Goals:	Promote gender equality and empower women Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Led by Professor David Scheffer, a former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), the Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) of the Bluhm Legal Clinic focuses on researching and addressing emerging human rights norms and related issues as well as providing valuable clinical experiences for students committed to protecting human rights on a global scale. CIHR has grown in recent years to a total of six faculty members: Professors Scheffer, Sandra Babcock, Bridget Arimond, Steve Sawyer, Juliet Sorensen, and Caroline Kaeb. They supervise students in several areas of clinical work (including representing indigent clients at home and abroad and assisting in the preparation of petitioners’ briefs and amicus briefs before foreign and U.S. courts and international criminal tribunals), teach core and elective courses for JD students and the JD-LLM and LLM concentrations in International Human Rights, and assist placing students in internships and staff positions with international courts and organizations. JD and JD-LLM students can earn academic credit for international externships with designated courts and international organizations overseas and in the United States under the supervision of CIHR. Further detail about the CIHR may be found on the web site list above. Professor Sawyer teaches a course at the NU Law school on United Nations law, entitled "A New World Order: the Role of the United Nations in advancing the Rule of Law and Human Rights." Other course offerings of the CIHR may be found on the CIHR web site listed above
Year established:	1999
Organizational structure:	The CIHR NU Law is an organization that exists within the Bluhm Legal Clinic which forms as integral part of the Northwestern University School of Law. The CIHR operates under the authority of its By Laws.
Number and type of members:	The Director of the CIHR NU Law is Professor David Scheffer; CIHR members as of this writing are Professors Bridget Arimond; Sandra Babcock; Stephen Sawyer,Juliet Sorensen and Caroline Kaeb. Detail about the individual members of the CIHR team are available on the website listed above.
Affiliation with NGO networks:	The CIHR liases with innumberable NGOs, but has no formal ties to any single NGO
Funding structure:	Donations and grants from domestic sources
Funding structure other:	The operations of the CIHR NU Law are funded primarily through the formal budget of Northwestern Univerity Law School, supplemented by donations from outside organizations.

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