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This month the Pozen Center says farewell to two of our wonderful staff: Tara Peters and Shae Omonijo

Former Pozen Center Human Rights Intern and Office and Communications Assistant Melissa Gatter recently published an article in the journal Contemporary Levant, exploring how youth in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan navigate childhood and grapple with their Syrian identity using NGO resources and spaces.

Angela S. García, Yanilda María González, and Marci Ybarra write in the Huffington Post on the importance of college support for DACA recipients. Monika Nalepa writes in the Chicago Tribune about Polish nationalists and protestors.

On our 20th Anniversary, we challenge alumni to “carry it forward” and help us provide a transformative experience for the next generation of University of Chicago students.

The Pozen Family Center for Human Rights is pleased to announce its 20th Anniversary Speaker Series, featuring Jason De León, Neve Gordon, Sally Engle Merry, and Carol Anderson.

A peaceful, stable future for Colombia still faces many challenges, but on Conflict Resolution Day, we recognize the great strides being made to make Colombia a country that better manages and resolves conflict across many levels.

“Support from the Pozen Center allowed me to begin pursuing the ways that discourses around human rights and national belonging intertwine in a multicultural neighborhood in Oslo, Norway.”--Janet Connor is a PhD student in Anthropology. Her research focuses on questions of citizenship, migration, linguistic registers, and urban change in a neighborhood in central Oslo, Norway.

On September 5, 2017, Pozen Center Executive Director Susan Gzesh joined Oscar Chacón of Alianza Americas to discuss what’s next for DACA recipients and Congress on WBEZ’s Worldview.

Presented by the National Public Housing Museum and Art Works Projects, and cosponsored by the Pozen Center, the exhibition features posters that celebrate and acknowledge the vital role that all citizens play in protecting and promoting human rights while challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing sexual and reproductive rights, protecting women and girls against brutality, and promoting women's empowerment and participation in society.

Reflections by Jeanne Lieberman, AB16. As the Pozen Center's 2016 Dr. Aizik Wolf Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Human Rights, Jeanne spent one year working at El Proceso de Comunidades Negras, a network of grassroots organizations that defend the human rights of Afro-Colombian communities dealing with displacement, violence, and threats to their land rights.

The Pozen Center congratulates twenty-three College students who are graduating in June 2017 with a minor in Human Rights.

Student-led working group, part of the Pozen Center's Special Project: Colombia, partnered with the UChicago Institute of Politics (IOP) to host a meeting with Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace, Sergio Jaramill