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The Humanitarian Law Project (founded 1985) is a U.S.-based
non-profit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
, working to protect
human rights Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
and promote "the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law." The organization was the named party and lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the United States case of ''
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project ''Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project'', 561 U.S. 1 (2010), was a case decided in June 2010 by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the Patriot Act's prohibition on providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations (18 U.S. ...
'', 130 S. Ct. 2705 (2010). The organization's mandate includes the long-term strengthening of human rights standard, particularly those
ratified Ratification is a principal's approval of an act of its agent that lacked the authority to bind the principal legally. Ratification defines the international act in which a state indicates its consent to be bound to a treaty if the parties inten ...
by nation-states, and to promote human rights dialogue between human rights activists, legal academics, members of the
US Congress The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washin ...
and their staffs, and other interested US citizens.


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