The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Forum hosted by Augsburg University in Minneapolis featured human rights faculty and student voices. Sessions including exploring the peace process…
Deborah Levison, professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs explains how her new research in Tanzania seeks to amplify the opinions of children in human rights…
We are excited to announce the third year of Human Rights Initiative (HRI) Research Funding for faculty research projects that are designed to advance the study and protection…
Hundreds of CLA students and faculty are working on human rights problems. We work with any and all information, including news accounts, reports, interviews, photographs and…
We express our sorrow at the loss of Arvonne Fraser, who died on August 7, 2018. Fraser was a visionary, a leader and a friend to the human rights community in Minnesota and…
A 2017 Human Rights Initiative grantee and faculty member in the Department of English, Professor Ganeshananthan began to explain the thirty-year conflict—from 1983 to 2009…
From Minneapolis to Nairobi, our students are participating in human rights work across the globe. This summer, the Human Rights Program is providing funding to 15 students…
The Human Rights Program congratulates Ryan Atkinson and Anishaa Kamesh, the inaugural recipients of the Fraser Human Rights Undergraduate Fellowships. Created this past…
Passionate about the intersections of literature, human rights, and education, Aleisha Smith has a dizzying number of questions left to explore. We sat down with her to get to…
Nico Ramos Flores, a Spanish and Portuguese Studies PhD candidate, is writing his dissertation on Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latino literature. Yet, Nico recently crossed into a new…