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Watch Dr. Lydia Z. Dixon discuss her new book, “Delivering Health,” in conversation with Pozen Center Postdoctoral Instructor Amy Krauss.

The Lab welcomes Alex Y. Ding as our Summer 2020 Activist-in-Residence.

Four former Pozen Center Interns returned to campus for an enlightening career panel at the annual symposium.

2015 Pozen New Leaders Scholar and 2017 Pozen Intern Soreti Teshome has always known that she wants to be a lawyer. But when granted the Pozen Center Human Rights Internship, she knew she needed hands-on experience in the legal system to confirm her interest in public defense.

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.

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.

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 Family Center for Human Rights is pleased to announce the commencement of our 20th Anniversary Year.

In 1997 a group of faculty from across the University of Chicago believed that: the theory and practice of human rights would benefit from engagement across disciplines and professional schools; and the study of human rights should be part of a robust liberal arts education. With their shared enthusiasm for the project. the support of the Provost, and a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, the University of Chicago Human Rights Program began. In 2014 the Human Rights Program was renamed the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights to honor the generous gift from Ann and Richard Pozen, AB’69.     

Join the Pozen Center for our annual internship symposium on Human Rights in Practice with panel presentations by our 2016 Human Rights Interns.