Human Rights Program

Mobilizing knowledge to advance human rights.

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Meet Our Graduate Students

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Human Rights Lab

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Meet Our Undergraduate Students

20th Anniversary Symposium

The Human Rights Program celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, we hosted the Human Rights Program 20th Anniversary Symposium: Mobilizing Knowledge to Advance Human Rights on November 18 - 19, 2021.

Anniversary Symposium

Recent News

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The Forgotten Migrants: Children of Migrant Farmworkers

National Farmworkers Awareness Week spans March 25-March 31. David Nelson (CLA '23) brings attention to the ways that these injustice manifest in children, some of the most…

How Local Community Engagement Can Foster International Policy Change

Marcail Distante (MHR '23) speaks about her experience with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and how community engagement takes place on an…

Using Indigenous Agricultural Practice to build Sustainable Indigenous Economies and Environmental Policies

Isabel Huot-Link (MHR '23) discusses her summer internship on the White Earth Reservation with the Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute (AAI) researching Indigenous agriculture…

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Bringing Victim-Centered Perspectives to International Development

Guillermo Gorrin Castellano (MHR '23) speaks about his internship with the American Bar Association, where he worked to promote victim-informed approaches in the development…

Applying Interdisciplinary Coursework in the Field

MHR student Joy Musyimi discusses her summer internships at Alight and the ACLU of Minnesota, where she worked in refugee protection, immigration law, and communications.