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Hong Kong was the site for three weeks of an investigation into human rights locally and across Asia as part of the College’s new September courses.

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.

On January 17, 2019, the Pozen Center’s Festival of Human Rights marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The Festival brought together the theory and practice of human rights for a campus and community audience.

On November 2, 2018, the Pozen Center convened a Health and Human Rights Workshop entitled, “Putting Human Rights to Work: Innovations in Human Rights Metrics and Practices.” Organized by faculty board member Dr. Renslow Sherer, the workshop was designed to offer a multidisciplinary review of human rights-based interventions in a variety of settings and with a range of vulnerable populations.

“When an American president believes in torture, in banning Muslims, and in putting the children of immigrants in cages, it is a dark moment to observe the 70th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the United States. Do Americans still remember the aspirations embedded in that revolutionary document? Can the values and transformative political projects that drove the human rights moment of the 1940s be recovered and repurposed 70 years on?”

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.

On March 15, 2018, Pozen Center Executive Director Susan Gzesh participated in a discussion at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in Mexico City.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tara Zahra, the Co-Chair of Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Faculty Board and professor of history published an opinion piece in the New York Times.