Nature, animals, art and human rights.
Dina Francesca Haynes is Executive Director of the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. She comes to Yale following more than 20 years of international human rights law practice and teaching, in the areas of public international law, human rights, refugee and asylum law, immigration, human trafficking, and constitutional law. She researches, writes, and engages in policy work and advocacy in the areas of refugee and asylum law, immigration, human trafficking, human rights, regressive governance, and gender during and after conflict. She has also authored three books and more than 65 articles and book chapters.
She has practiced international human rights law as Director General of the Human Rights Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Human Rights Advisor to the OSCE in Serbia; as a Protection Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Afghanistan and Croatia; and as a Human Rights Field Investigator with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Rwanda. Professor Haynes was also an attorney for the United States Department of Justice and clerked on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She has engaged in extensive pro bono practice, impact litigation, and direct representation to asylum seekers and those suffering human rights violations.