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…
Professor Serra Hakyemez hit the ground running in her first year at the University of Minnesota. With a joint appointment in Anthropology and the Institute for Global Studies…
The passage of legislation and the enforcement of legislation are far from one and the same. This is seen starkly in Colombia with respect to violence against women – 2017…
Marina Kelly is part of the inaugural Master of Human Rights cohort, and recipient of the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship funded by the US Department of State…
Research Assistant Heider Tun Tun travelled to Guatemala to help find truthful, reliable data about the IDP crisis in El Salvador. The work assisted Prof. McNamara in his HRI…
Professor Patrick McNamara formulated his Human Rights Initiative Grant-funded project, “From IDPs to Refugees: Forced Migration in El Salvador," to investigate the issue of…
The Human Rights Initiative Grants supported RAs Kayla Goldfarb and Gemechu Mekonnen as they contributed research to Professor Creamer's project on self-reporting with human…
On March 7, 2018, University of Minnesota Regents Professor Emerita Kathryn Sikkink marked the release of her new book with an inspiring presentation and conversation at the…