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Institute for Global Studies (IGS)

The Institute for Global Studies prepares students for global citizenship by providing unique opportunities in undergraduate education. IGS also works with departments across the College of Liberal Arts to support innovative curricular development by faculty designed to broaden opportunities for global education.

Institute for Global Studies
214 Social Sciences
269 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-9007
Fax: 612-626-2242
E-mail: igs@umn.edu

Midwest Coalition for Human Rights

The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights is a network of organizations in the Midwest collaborating to promote and protect international human rights both in the United States and abroad. The coalition works to achieve their goals by:

  • providing more opportunities for volunteers to contribute their time and expertise on concrete projects and cases that promote and protect human rights
  • increasing leverage on policy makers in the U.S. and other countries
  • providing broader visibility for human rights issues and for the member groups
  • expanding the constituency for international human rights
  • cross-training on human rights issues and activities to maximize the impact of work
  • sharing experience in administrative, organizational and policy matters

University of Minnesota
214 Social Sciences
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-626-7947
Fax: 612-626-2242
E-mail: info@midwesthumanrights.org

The Human Rights Center

The Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School assists human rights advocates, monitors, students, educators, and volunteers access to effective tools, practices, and networks to promote a culture of human rights and responsibilities in our local, national, and international communities.

Human Rights Center
University of Minnesota
Mondale Hall, N-120
229-19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-626-0041 or 1-888-HREDUC8
Fax: 612-625-2011
Email: humanrts@umn.edu

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota is a resource for information and teaching about the Holocaust and contemporary aspects of genocide as defined by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (1948) as well as varying definitions by scholars and researchers.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota
100 Nolte Center West
315 Pillsbury Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-0256
Fax: 612-626-9169
Email: chgs@umn.edu

Program in Human Rights and Health

The Program in Human Rights and Health based in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota is devoted to conducting scholarly investigations, practical projects, and educational programs that bear on a wide range of moral, legal, and public policy problems involving medicine and public health. Sources of problems addressed include first the astonishingly swift increase in technical knowledge (genetic diagnostics, stem cell biology, reproductive technologies, transplantation, therapeutics, and general biomedical science); second a widening gap in public health infrastructure and medical care available to the affluent and that of the poor (particularly in developing nations); third the explosive growth in medical costs; and, finally, shifts in demography and philosophy.

Program in Human Rights and Health
Mayo Memorial Building A-664
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-626-6559
Fax: 612-626-3908
Email: phrh@umn.edu

FLACSO–Mexico

The Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) is an international organization with regional and autonomous capacities. It is constituted by the states of Latin America and the Caribbean. FLACSO was founded in 1957 with the sponsorship of UNESCO to promote learning, research and cooperation in the social sciences throughout the continent. FLACSO is also organized in ten academic branches or divisions, which are located in: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Dominican Republic.

The Human Rights Program is building a collaborative relationship with FLACSO- Mexico in order to provide academic and practical opportunities for students in both programs, to explore joint projects and research, and to support faculty exchanges. Because of the global reach of human rights laws, institutions and activism, the Human Rights program intends to establish reciprocal partnerships between human rights actors working in the field in different regions. Mexico is a welcomed addition to the work at the Human Rights Program and HRP hopes to work with FLASCO–Mexico to connect the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Minors with internship opportunities in Mexico to meet the Minor’s requirements.

As part of the collaboration, Barbara Frey has been involved as a visiting lecturer for the Masters in Human Rights and Democracy program and has provided core curricular material for FLACSO-Mexico.

Ajusco 377
Col. Héroes de Padierna
C.P. 14200 México D.F.
Phone: (52) (55)-30-00-02-03
Fax: (52) (55)-30-00-02-84
Contact E-mail: Norma Flores norma@flacso.edu.mx