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Guns, Domestic Violence, and Human Rights

By humanrightsathome

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and on October 14, Duke Law will be hosting a unique event that examines US gun policy and domestic violence through the lens of human rights. 

Cincinnati Law School Dean Verna L. Williams, Sherry Honeycutt Everett, Legal Policy Director at the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Senior Lecturing Fellow and Supervising Attorney, Duke International Human Rights Clinic, will discuss issues of domestic abuse and firearms in the United States including what it means to frame and address this issue using a human rights-based approach. Professor Darrell A.H. Miller, Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, will moderate the discussion.

More information about the Duke event is available here.  Additional background on human rights and US gun violence is available in this comprehensive 2018 report from Amnesty International.