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Mexico

The Human Rights Program is part of an institutional collaboration between the University of Minnesota and FLACSO-Mexico. The Collaboration received the Office of International Programs "Interdisciplinary International Institutional Partnership Grant" involving the Human Rights Program as well as colleagues in the College of Education and Human Development, College of Liberal Arts, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, the University Extension Service, and Law School-Human Rights Center. Read more...

Small Arms & Light Weapons
The human cost of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons has been increasingly evident in the post-Cold War era. In the past decade, there has been significant diplomatic activity to strengthen international laws that curb the transfer of small arms, culminating in the July 2001 UN Conference on the "Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons." Read more...

Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights is a network of 56 organizations, service providers, and university centers, that work together to promote and protect human rights in our Midwest region. Through collaboration in the Heartland, we advocate, educate and take action with a strong regional voice on national and international human rights issues. Read more...

Scribes for Human Rights
The Human Rights Program and the Creative Writing Program inaugurated the "Scribes for Human Rights" fellowship in January 2006. The fellowship supports a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) student to work with the Human Rights Program as a writer-in-residence. The Scribe learns the issues and meets the players involved in the Program’s public human rights work, then uses this experience to write an article for publication for a large audience. Read more...

Child Protection International

CPI began in response to one incident in a remote town of Southern Sudan. In October 2007, University of Minnesota graduate student Gabriel Kou Solomon learned that his two nieces, Yar and Ajak Mading were violently abducted by armed men during a cattle raid on their village. Students affiliated with the Human Rights Program joined together to advocate for the rescue of the two girls by launching the Save Yar Campaign. The campaign has grown into an international NGO, Child Protection International. Read more...

Grave Desecrations
This project has centered on actions occurring at Wat Tham Krabok, a Buddhist temple in Thailand's central Saraburi province. For over twenty years this temple hosted a makeshift refugee camp for Hmong people who had fled Laos and feared forced repatriation. In the past couple of years all but a few hundred of these refugees have been resettled in the United States, with 4,000 coming to Minnesota in 2004. Read more...

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