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Human Rights Program
The Human Rights Program educates students by connecting them with academic and real-world experience in the field of international human rights. We bring together faculty and students with other human rights actors, including governmental and nongovernmental organizations, to support interdisciplinary research and training in the field of human rights.
News
Professor Sikkink receives 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Kathryn Sikkink, University of Minnesota Regents Professor and Human Rights Program Advisory Board Chair, has been named winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Changed World Politics.
(Continue Reading)Bhabha: Protecting Migrant Children's Rights
Rounding out the Human Rights for the 21st Century spring speaker series, Jacqueline Bhabha described the complexity of child migration and the key challenges to the realization of migrant child rights in her May 2nd presentation at McNamara Alumni Center.
(Continue Reading)Anna Kaminski and Tenzin Pelkyi Receive Human Rights Awards
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The Human Rights Program and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies are thrilled to announce that Anna Kaminski, a junior majoring in Art, Global Studies and Social Justice, and Tenzin Pelkyi, a senior majoring in Political Science and Global Studies, received the 2nd Annual Inna Meiman Human Rights Award and the Sullivan Ballou Award, respectively.
Upcoming Events
Human Rights Beat
Tortured: Bush's crimes, Obama's blind eye, and the death of accountability
The U's Kathryn Sikkink on torture, accountability, and the United States.
February 21st, 2012Kathryn Sikkink's "The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics"
A great article on Kathryn Sikkink's new book, The Justice Cascade.
October 24th, 2011American Memories: Atrocities and the Law
October 12th, 2011Making Tyrants Do Time
September 16th, 2011
Outside Human Rights Events
CVT Benefit Concert (May 21)
Join us For a concert benefitting the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT). Enjoy a night of music, drinks, food and raffle prizes at Hell's Kitchen in Downtown Minneapolis!
What: Benefit concert and raffle in support of CVT! $5 cash at the door.
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When: May 21, 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Where: Hell's Kitchen, 80 9th Street South Minneapolis, MN, $5 parking in adjacent ramp.
Why: We are raising money for basic needs to help torture survivors in the Twin Cities.
Who: This is a 21+ event. Bring your friends!Freedom Here & Now (May 8)
Ending Modern Slavery
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
12:30-5:30 PM
Ted Mann Concert Hall
University of MinnesotaThis event is free and open to the public. Register at http://may8freedom.eventbrite.com/.
The Twin Cities is among the nation's 13 largest centers for sex trafficking of children. In a concerted effort to combat this disturbing trend, business and nonprofit leaders, law enforcement, prosecutors, advocates, and private funders are working to design a field-leading intervention model to eliminate the sex trafficking of Minnesota girls. Cutting-edge programs--like the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's MN Girls Are Not For Sale campaign and Carlson's training protocol to help Radisson Hotel employees spot and report trafficking activities--are leading the way in this fight.
(Continue Reading)Jamaican Pride: Defending LGBTI Rights (April 10)
JaMinn Link in association with the Caribbean Students Association at Macalester College invites you to join us for a discussion with David Kato Vision and Voice Award recipient Maurice Tomlinson about issues facing Jamaica's LGBTI community, the current state of the laws, and homophobia in Jamaica.
Maurice Tomlinson has been involved in LGBTI and HIV and AIDS activism in Jamaica and the Caribbean for over 12 years. He is an Attorney-at-Law and law lecturer with current research interests in sexual rights and HIV/AIDS advocacy. He is leading the legal campaign to overturn Jamaica's anti-sodomy laws. Maurice is the first winner of the David Kato Vision and Voice award for LGBTI leadership.Macalester College
John B. Davis Auditorium
1600 Grand Ave.
Saint Paul, MN 55105April 10, 2012
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7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
A brief reception will begin at 7:00 p.m.Opening Reception: Discrimination by Design (April 10)
There will be an opening reception for the Discrimination by Design Exhibit and Film Series: Curating Invisible Histories on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 from 6pm to 8pm at Elmer L.Andersen Library. The event will feature Ted Phillips, Curator from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and open the Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals Exhibit to be on display at the library from April 2 to May 11, 2012. Please RSVP to cheree@minndakjcrc.org by March 27, 2012.
Click here for more information about the exhibit and films.
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