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Learn about all of the incredible events the Human Rights Lab put on this Fall!

Albert Woodfox, who will deliver the Pozen Center's Fall 2019 Kirschner Lecture on November 7th, has been named a finalist for the National Book Award.

We are now accepting applications for the Senior Lecturer and Director of Human Rights Curriculum, who will oversee and deepen our programs of undergraduate and doctoral education.

The Pozen Center for Human Rights invites applications for its 2019-20 Human Rights Preceptor position. The Preceptor works closely with Pozen Center staff to precept Human Rights minors as well as Interns in the Human Rights Internship Program. This position is open to doctoral students in any department or professional school of the University of Chicago.

The Pozen Center announces an exciting opportunity for students to study abroad at the new University of Chicago Hong Kong Center. Hong Kong: Human Rights in Asia is a three-week course offered before the beginning of Fall Quarter in September 2019.

December 10, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—the landmark document that for the first time enumerated the fundamental human rights to be universally honored and protected. On January 17, 2019, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights will honor and commemorate this milestone anniversary with a Festival of Human Rights. Students, faculty, and community members will select one of the UDHR’s thirty articles and interpret it through a contemporary lens. Over an eight-hour period, attendees will be invited to immerse themselves in the theory and practice of human rights through art making, literature, historical reflection, and more.

Director of Human Rights Practice Alice Kim is coeditor of and contributor to a new book illustrating the devastation caused by an unjust prison system. Kim is the inaugural director of the new Human Rights Lab, a project of the Pozen Center, that is engaging students and community in human rights work addressing mass incarceration and racialized policing.

Join the Pozen Center, 3CT, and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at a screening of "Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait" (2014), a work by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Ossama Mohammed.

The Pozen Center is pleased to announce our 2018 student award recipients.

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

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.

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

This month the Pozen Center says farewell to two of our wonderful staff: Brian Goodman and Kira Dault.

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.     

The Pozen Family Center for Human Rights is accepting applications for the full-time position of Manager, Communications and Events.

The Pozen Center is pleased to announce our 2017 student award recipients.

Third-year Soreti Teshome has been awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a nationally competitive award that supports exceptional students pursuing careers in public service.

Teshome was one of 62 students selected from a pool of 768 undergraduate candidates nationwide to win the prestigious award, which provides up to $30,000 toward graduate education. The news was announced April 12.

A double major in public policy and comparative race and ethnic studies, Teshome plans to pursue a law degree with a focus on public policy that will enable her to provide legal representation to those from marginalized communities.

Teshome is part of the 2017 Pozen Center Internship Cohort.

David Cole, National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, will give the 2017 Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Human Rights Memorial Lecture at 6:00pm on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Cole will join a distinguished list of past Kirschner Lecturers, including Human Rights advocates such as Dr. Paul Farmer (Partners in Health), Aryeh Neier, (founder of Human Rights Watch), Juan Mendez (former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture) and writers such as Aleksandar Hemon, Alex Kotlowitz, and Sara Paretsky.

This administration launched its anti-Muslim executive order and other policy initiatives against immigrants based on racism, arrogance, over-reaching and scare tactics. The public outcry and preliminary legal success were not what the White House anticipated. Some executive orders or new laws may succeed in reinstating racialized unfair immigration policies, but the opposition will defeat others. The immigrants, asylum seekers, their allies and lawyers are acting with a deep understanding of the struggle for civil rights and human rights that precedes this latest offense to morality, justice and common decency. They have only just begun to fight.

College students are invited to this lunchtime info session on Wednesday, October 26 to learn more about the Human Rights Minor.

The Pozen Center supports research projects that allow University of Chicago faculty to explore critical dimensions of human rights thought and practice. Now accepting applications for projects beginning July 1, 2017.