MPP/MSW and human rights minor student Julia Wilber and MHR student Hayley Drozdowski both interned at Refugees International (RI) in Washington D.C. this summer. Hayley also…
“A Contested Home,” a project headed by Human Rights Initiative grantees Avigail Manneberg and Sonja Kuftinec, engages themes of forced migration and displacement in the…
Human Rights Masters student Shelby Ankrom put her learning from Professor Barb Frey's Human Rights Advocacy course into practice during her summer internship at the Center…
MPP student Fadumo Osman has incorporated human rights scholarship into her studies through the Human Rights Minor curriculum. She was able to dig into this even more during…
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…