Human Rights Program

Mobilizing knowledge to advance human rights.

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20th Anniversary Symposium

The Human Rights Program celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, we are hosting the Human Rights Program 20th Anniversary Symposium: Mobilizing Knowledge to Advance Human Rights on November 18 - 19, 2021, in Cowles Auditorium at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs on the University Twin Cities campus.

Anniversary Symposium

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December 08, 2021

“We Charge Genocide”: International Law and Anti-Black Violence in America

This panel will shed light on the efforts to use international law to challenge systemic racism, why it failed, and how groups are carrying the torch of the movement that was…

Human Rights Program

20th Anniversary Symposium

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