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  • Leitner Clinic Students Discuss Access to Reproductive Health Services with Melanie White Eagle, Co-founder of “First Voices,” A Not-for-Profit Organization that is dedicated to assisting Native American people in South Dakota
  • Clinic students Helen Shin (’08), Meghna Saxena (’08) and co-supervisor Anna Cave with four sisters who fled their village to avoid FGM
  • Leitner Clinic student Elizabeth Joynes interviewing an HIV+ man who may be forcibly resettled from his home
  • David Mandel-Anthony conducts a radio interview with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) about the Leitner Clinic’s project in Liberia
  • Leitner Clinic students Laura Garr (’09), Meghan Gabriel (’09), and Laura Smith (’08) with Meena Seshu, founder of SANGRAM. In 2002, Ms. Seshu received Human Rights Watch’s highest award for her work with sex workers in India.
  • Ethiopian LLM student Teramed Tezera and Leitner Clinic students Melisa Morgan (’08) and Felice Segura (’08) discuss legal arguments for their joint report
  • Leitner Clinic students meet with partner organization SCC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  • Jessica Mikhailevich (`10) conducts fieldwork in Cambodia
  • An SCC monk accompanies the Leitner team on interviews with community members who will be forcibly evicted from their homes
  • Leitner Clinic students Felice Segura, Sarah Braasch, Melisa Morgan and Ethiopian Law students Teramed Tezera and Aron Degol during their welcome lunch in Addis Ababa. The students spent the semester researching and co-writing the joint report.
  • Melisa Morgan and Teramed Tezera discuss the day’s interviews before a meeting at the House of Federation
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  • Sex workers and their adult sons perform a song from a SANGRAM/VAMP play about the necessity of condom use
  • Laura Smith with three sex workers & members of SANGRAM/VAMP in one of the Red Light Districts of Sangli, India
  • The Leitner Clinic in Liberia in Fall 2008.
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  • Sarah Stevenson during a community meeeting in Pleebo.
  • Clinic Students Sarah Stevenson and David Mandel-Anthony on the way to meet JPC clients
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  • Fordham Law students Michael Ellis (`09) and Janet Kang (`10) conducted human rights training with CHREAA in fall 2008
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Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Fordham University School of Law
33 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

Email: LeitnerCenter@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212.636.6862
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Fordham offers one of the most extensive human rights curricula of any law school in the United States


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Thomas H. Lee
Director, Center for International Security and Humanitarian Law
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