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Graduate Program

About the Graduate Minor/Concentration in Human Rights

The Graduate Minor/Concentration in Human Rights provides students in the Graduate School at the University, as well as professional students in the Humphrey Institute and the Law School and opportunity to gain interdisciplinary expertise in the study of human rights laws and mechanisms. The program includes both classroom and field experience in international human rights issues and advocacy.

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Each semester, the University of Minnesota offers a number of courses containing human rights content. These courses can be found at every level of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and in a wide variety of disciplines.

Directory of Graduate Studies and Program Faculty

Name E-mail
Barbara Frey
Director of Graduate Studies and
Director of Human Rights Program		 freyx001@umn.edu
Kathryn Sikkink
Political Science		 sikkink@umn.edu
David Weissbrodt
Law		 weiss001@umn.edu
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Sociology		 boyle@atlas.socsci.umn.edu 
Karen Brown
Interdisciplinary Center for
the Study of Global Change 		kbt@umn.edue
Katherine Fennelly
HHH		 fenne007@umn.edu
Oren Gross
Law School		 gross084@umn.edu
Sally Kenney
Center on Women and Public
Policy, Humphrey Institute		 kenne030@umn.edu
Helga Leitner
Geography		 eqj6139@umn.edu
Dario Menanteau-Horta
Social Work		 dmenante@umn.edu
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Law School		 niaol002@umn.edu
Luis Ramos-Garcia
Spanish ans Portuguese		 laramosg@umn.edu
John R. Vreyens
Agriculture, Food and
Environmental Sciences		 vreyens@umn.edu
Eric D. Weitz
History		 weitz004@umn.edu

Upcoming Events

Outside Events

  • Gender Transition and Conflict

    The Freeman Center for International Economic Policy sponsors the Global Policy Seminar/Workshop series every other Tuesday from 12:45 to 2:00 pm. All sessions are held in the Stassen Room (Room 170) of the Humphrey Center. The next talk is:

    December 8 - John Freeman on American Political Attitudes and Globalization

    Freeman Center for International Economic Policy,
    Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, presents a
    Workshop on Global Policy

    Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

    Law School

    will speak on:

    Gender, Transition and Conflict
    12:45 - 2:00 pm
    Tuesday, November 24
    170 HHH - Stassen Room
    Humphrey Institute, West Bank Campus

    Professor Ní Aoláin will draw on a book in progress to discuss the ways in which women experience

    transitions from conflicted and violent societies. The book and the talk will examine the multiple forms of
    violence that pervade conflicted societies and how legal sanction often fails to fully capture its effects for women.

    The discussion will also focus on a number of the dimensions that are engaged in transitional societies
    including Amnesty, Security Sector Reform, Reparations,
    and Rule of Law transformations.

    All are welcome!

    Beverages and cookies will be served

     11/23/09

  • Frontrunner

    Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
    Arlington Hills Branch Library
    1105 Greenbrier St., St. Paul

    "Frontrunner" tells the heroic story of Massouda Jalal, a medical doctor and mother of three, who defied the Taliban regime and ran for President of Afghanistan. Discussion hosted by Cheryl Thomas, Director of the Women's Human Rights Program, to follow.

    11/17/09

  • Brown Bag Lunch: Legal Reform on Violence against Women in the Republic of Georgia: Recent Successes and Challenges

    Tuesday, November 24, 2009 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
    Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. Minnetonka/Tamarack Room
    200 South Sixth Street, Suite 4000, Minneapolis

    Presenters: Robin Phillips, Executive Director, and Cheryl Thomas, Director of the Women's Human Rights Program.

    11/17/09

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