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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

Recent News

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.

HRP Welcomes New Graduate Communications Staff Member

Welcome, Guillermo, to the HRP team!

Siyu Samantha Ng, second year MHR student

Human Rights Hitting Close to Home: Student’s Research in South Asian Conflict and Asian Hate Crimes in the U.S.

Siyu Samantha Ng (MHR '23) shares her experience interning for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Burma program and the “Anti hate/Hate Crime Prevention” project for…

UN Adviser Christian Courtis Speaking in the Humphrey Forum

UN Gender and Women’s Rights Adviser speaks at the University of Minnesota on “Gender Equality in the UN Agenda”

The University of Minnesota was pleased to welcome Christian Courtis, Gender and Women’s Rights Adviser for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York…

Mohamed Mandour poses with a golden retriever

“I owe the MHR program a lot”

MHR student Mohamed Mandour ('23) speaks with HRP about his experience as an Egyptian activist, scholar, and human rights defender.