Todd Howland

Todd Howland

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Todd Howland teaches human rights law in the dual degree program of the UN mandated University for Peace and the Graduate School of International Area Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. He is the co-founder of International Rights Advocates and previously directed the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights.

Previously, he was with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights posted to Angola and Rwanda. He also has worked with various NGOs, including the Carter Center in Ethiopia.

Todd holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver College of Law, a Master of Arts in Political Economy from the University of Denver College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Bachelor of Business Administration from Boise State University. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish and French.

Blog Entries by Todd Howland

Obama Can Affect Global Women's Rights

Posted June 18, 2008 | 12:14 PM (EST)

By Paddy Torsney and Todd Howland

President Obama will be in a good position to ask: Why segregation of women from public life -- for example the lack of equal voting rights for women in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Bhutan -- has not yet been considered a flagrant violation of...

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Will Dems Wipeout on American Samoan Misto Spot?

Posted March 12, 2007 | 03:40 PM (EST)

A Misto Spot in surfing occurs very rarely when the convergence of a number of factors creates some awesome waves where there is usually nothing but pancake. American Samoa normally gets about as much attention from Capitol Hill as a swimming pool gets from surfers. But there is now a...

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From the RFK Memorial Poverty Tour: Fields Ripe with Injustice

Posted May 6, 2006 | 01:18 PM (EST)

In 1966, Robert F. Kennedy first walked with disenfranchised farmworkers in Delano, California to learn their story and to see what he could do to bring hardworking people some justice. Forty years later, Ethel Kennedy and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney walked with members of the southwest Florida based farmworker's rights...

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Human Rights and Poverty After Katrina

Posted February 10, 2006 | 07:19 PM (EST)

After riding for nearly two days, six busloads of people displaced by Katrina, ignored by the Bush Administration and forgotten by most Americans came to Washington, DC this week to remind America they still exist and their problems have not been solved.

For a sound bite or two...

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