The Harvard Human Rights Program carries on a range of activities and projects that extend through the school curriculum and beyond, into the worlds of scholarship and human rights activism. Its pursuits are intended to foster a critical understanding of human rights, as well as an active engagement with human rights issues. The activities respond to the dual aims of the program, which are to bring human rights issues into the internal life of the school, and to contribute to the external human rights movement through scholarship, clinical work, educating students to participate in it, and hosting visiting fellows
HRP’s externally oriented projects have involved collaborations with international NGOs in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Many projects have led to publications covering topics such as Business and Human Rights, the Arab Human Rights Movement and the role of Truth Commissions. Publications are available in print and on their web site. HRP has also sponsored conferences, meetings and training programs on subjects ranging from Constitutional Rights in India to the humanitarian law movement.