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News & Events

Catch up with our latest news, upcoming events, and faculty and student accomplishments.

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

Human Rights Program Unites with Local Community to Call the United Nations to Minnesota

“Networks for Justice” research team recently mobilized support to call on the United Nations International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality…

Child's drawing showing himself with his brother and his grandparents, but not his parents

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…

Guillermo Gorrin Castellano sitting on a bench

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…