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About HRP

Mission

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.

HRP promotes the impressive interdisciplinary research and program activities on human rights at the University. Human rights is by its very nature an interdisciplinary subject, engaging many fields of academic study including the humanities, law, social sciences, public policy and the health communities, to name a few. We encourage students to increase our knowledge about preventing human rights violations by using their abundant skills and curiosity to undertake research, analysis and strategic advocacy on human rights issues.

To this end the Human Rights Program has a threefold mission:

Educating

HRP carries out interdisciplinary teaching and research in international human rights.

Advocating

HRP helps students find meaningful work experiences in human rights organizations around the world.

Connecting

HRP brings together students, faculty, professionals and experts working in the field of human rights to address critical issues.

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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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