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The Human Rights Program, established by the College of
Liberal Arts in 2001, coordinates the impressive interdisciplinary research
and program activities on human rights at the University. Housed in the
Institute for Global Studies on the West Bank of campus, the Program
provides academic, research, and internship opportunities in human rights
for students at the University of Minnesota in order to prepare them
as effective policy-makers and advocates of international human rights.
To accomplish this goal, the Program teaches several courses in human
rights for undergraduates and graduate students, including International
Human Rights Law, Human Rights Advocacy and Theoretical Approaches to
Human Rights. The Program administers a Graduate Minor in Human Rights
which allows any graduate student at the University to gain special expertise
in the study and application of human rights standards. Leadership
Barbara
A. Frey Barbara Frey is Director of the Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. The Program, established in 2001, provides academic, research and internship opportunities for students in the field of international human rights. Frey teaches undergraduates, graduate students and law students at the University and is the Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Minor in Human Rights. Frey has been an international human rights advocate for more than two decades, serving in a variety of positions in non-governmental organizations and academic institutions. Frey served from 2000-2003 as an alternate member of the U.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, a body of independent experts who advise the United Nations on human rights policy. Since 2002, Frey has served as Special Rapporteur to the Sub-Commission on the issue of preventing human rights abuses committed with small arms and light weapons. From 1985 through 1996 Frey was Executive Director of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Under her tenure as Director, Minnesota Advocates grew from a small volunteer group to become one of the largest U.S.-based international human rights organizations. Frey has been teaching international human rights at the University of Minnesota in both the Law School and the Institute for Global Studies since 1989. She is the co-convener of the Midwest Coalition for Human rights and serves on the Board of Directors of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. She is the immediate past Chair of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Committee on Foreign Relations. Frey has received widespread recognition for her work in international human rights and foreign policy, including being recognized by President Clinton in December 1996. Frey received the first Iustitia et Lex award from the University of St. Thomas Law School in 2003. She was named the 2001 Myra Bradwell Award winner by Minnesota Women Lawyers for promoting the interests of women in the legal profession and in the community. In 1996 she was recognized as a Woman of Achievement by her alma mater, the University of Notre Dame. Frey has also received the Twin Cities International Citizen Award (1996), the McKnight Fellowship to the Salzburg Seminar (1996), and the Advocacy Award of the Litigation Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association (1993). Frey was selected as a 1991 Fellow to the British-American Project, and was a member of the 1990 inaugural class of Mondale Fellows at the Humphrey Institute. Frey is a 1982 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. She received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1978. She worked as an associate lawyer at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis from 1983-85. Frey is married to Howard Orenstein; they have three children.
Kathryn Sikkink is a Regents Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota, and has a M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Professor Sikkink works on the role of ideas and norms in the international system and in domestic politics, with emphasis on the origins and effects of international human rights ideas and regimes. She is especially interested in how transnational social movements and networks have developed new norms and pressured states and international organizations to change practices. Her current research focuses on the dramatic increase in international, foreign, and domestic human rights trials in the world. Professor Sikkink's publications include Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina; Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, (co-authored with Margaret Keck), winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (1999) and the International Studies Association's Chadwick Alger Award for best work in the area of international organization (1999); and Mixed Messages: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America. Advisory Board Ragui
Assaad, Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public
Affairs Program Staff
Rochelle Hammer has been with the Program since 2001, first as a student assistant and most recently as Coordinator. Her work with the Program is currently focused on coordinating the efforts of the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights – a network of more than 40 U.S.-based advocacy organizations and academic centers collaborating to promote and protect human rights – to address human rights issues of concern in the Midwest region. Hammer has a BA in Global Studies from the University of Minnesota and is currently working on a Nonprofit Management Graduate Certificate offered through the University’s College of Continuing Education. Lana Gitman Lana currently assists Barbara Frey with oversight of the graduate minor in human rights, coordinates internship opportunities for students, and provides other administrative and research support. |
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