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440:. This campaign worked to combat human trafficking and the exploitation and abuse of women and children. The centre also held a West and Central Africa Consultation on the African Charter on Democracy alongside other organizations. Discussions were held regarding unconstitutional changes of government, safeguarding the integrity of electoral processes, ending corruption, and aiding in development. The Centre also held a panel discussion in October regarding maternal health concerning the quadrupling of the maternal mortality rate in the past decade as well as related issues and challenges. 314:. The BHRC maintains goals that include the organization of internships with leading human rights organizations throughout the world. They maintain relations with human rights organizations, universities, and government agencies. In addition, they seek to gain attention for human rights topics in the Buffalo community by organizing speakers, conferences, and symposia with leading human rights speakers. They hope “to garner greater exposure and community support for the recognition, promotion, and protection of international human rights.” 282:, predominantly the role of slavery and segregation, as being integrally important to their practice and study of human rights. In 2009, the university launched the Pauli Murray Project which is a program that makes use of human rights thinking and techniques to branch out in the Durham community, seeking reconciliation regarding past practices of segregation and slavery. In November 2011, the DHRC announced that it would unveil a historic marker in honor of 457:
University Human Rights Centre (Centro di Ateneo). In carrying out its activities, the Centre cooperates with regional ombudspersons and other human rights institutions, local authorities, schools and NGOs. The Centre is also responsible for managing the regional Archive ‘Peace Human Rights’, one of the main instruments through which the Region of Veneto promotes the culture of human rights, peace, cooperation to development and solidarity.
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Next to research activities such as conferences and the publication of working papers and books, HRP offers summer and post-graduate fellowships to prepare students for human rights careers. Through the Visiting Fellows Program, HRP seeks to provide "scholars and advocates with an opportunity to step
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Among its several publications, since 2011, the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua has been publishing, both in Italian and in English, the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights (Annuario italiano dei diritti umani), a periodical account of how the international human rights monitoring system
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The Centre played a crucial role in drafting the Model Law of HIV in South Africa, which was adopted in November by the SADC Parliamentary Forum. Other important research by the Centre included access to medicines and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted this resolution. The
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In 1994, the BHRC founded the Buffalo Journal of International Law, which was renamed in 1997 as the Buffalo Human Rights Law Review. The BHRLR “seeks to unite professionals, students, legal practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and cross-disciplinary scholars, and to encourage the development and
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in Cuba. Concerning health injustice, the HRC is investigating mental health problems in Albania as well as access to healthcare for workers in post-Katrina New Orleans. In the Summer of 2010, the HRC announced the beginning of its Sexual Violence and Accountability Project where they will study the
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The Global Campus integrates the educational activities of the Regional Programmes through the exchange of lecturers, researchers and students; the joint planning of curricula for on-campus and online courses; the promotion of global research projects and dissemination activities; the professional
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The DHRC commonly shows films pertaining to social justice that are kept in an archive for the university and shown free of charge. In 2011, they offered a viewing of a series of documentaries exploring issues of immigration, refugee rights, the justice system, and the environment called “Rights!
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Since 2013, the Centre has been supporting a new MA Degree Programme in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance, taught in English, which is supervised by the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, part of the School of Economics and Political Science of the University of
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The BHRC organized a speaker series called The Comparative Human Rights and Practice series in the spring of 2010. This series included talks about justice in Sierra Leone, international politics of civilian protection, sex trafficking in the United States, indigenous rights in the Americas, and
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Weissbrodt, founder of the Human Rights Center, is notorious for his work on the Guantanamo detainee cases. He organized law students through the HRC to help with work on legal research and briefing. He argued that charges against Bahlul did not constitute war crimes under international law and
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and Greater Minnesota. The HRC hopes that these educational tools will help others to take action towards ending these inequalities. Potential projects stemming from this initiative include students interviewing parents to dissolve barriers preventing parental involvement in schools and working
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These Regional Programmes offer specialised post-graduate education and training in human rights and democracy from a regional perspective and interdisciplinary content, as well as a multiplicity of research, publications, public events and outreach activities. They are supported by the European
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was founded by Professor Emeritus Henry J. Steiner. According to the HRP website, the Program "seeks to inspire and offer guidance to international human rights learning, scholarship, and research at Harvard Law School" and "helps students, advocates, and scholars deepen and disseminate their
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on “Human Rights, Democracy and Peace” and the European Jean Monnet Excellence Centre, it also cooperates in different ways with the Council of Europe, the European Union, the UN OHCHR, the Multinational CiMic Group, the Anna Lindh Foundation and many others. Moreover, it contributed to the
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It was founded in 1982 on an initiative of the Faculty of Political Science, as ‘Study and Training Centre on the Rights of the Person and of the Peoples’. In 2011, it became the ‘Interdepartmental Centre on human rights and the rights of Peoples’ and finally in 2013 it was transformed into
171:. This center's aim is to promote human rights and justice at a global level. The faculty and staff of the HRC collaborate with human rights organizations, that specialize in the promotion of justice and post-war reconstruction in countries that have been torn apart by war. 701:
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back from teaching or practice and conduct a serious inquiry in the field of human rights". Many leaders in the human rights field from around the globe have passed through HRP, be it as permanent staff or as visiting fellows and professors. These figures include
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was established in 2009 as part of an initiative of the Washington state legislature. The center is interdisciplinary but housed under The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. The faculty and staff of UWCHR have partnered with the
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that is home to a variety of scholar initiatives. The DHRC “seeks to lead university-wide scholarly conversations, collaborations, and programs on human rights, bringing together the humanities and social sciences with public policy and law.”
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On February 4, 2011 the HRC launched the Islamic Law and Human Rights Program. This program will “engage in research, scholarship, and educational and practical activities on issues of Islamic law, human rights, rule of law, and terrorism.”
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development of graduates through internships in inter-governmental organisations; and the strong focus of networking through the Global Campus Alumni Association, as well as support to the alumni associations of the Regional Programmes.
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Duke is home to Genocide Convention author Rafael Lemkin and Dr. Peter Storey who co-chaired the Peace Accord structures that intervened in political violence which occurred before South Africa’s first democratic elections.
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was one of the first to be established in Europe and its activities focus on the development of interdisciplinary knowledge of human rights and on their promotion, particularly through education and research.
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Issues of focus for the HRC in 2010 included but were not limited to fair trade, immigration and asylum, indigenous rights, public health, torture, women’s rights, and wrongful convictions.
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is an academic department and NGO in South Africa that was established in 1986 as part of domestic efforts against the apartheid system. Their focus has now extended beyond the borders of
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The Global Campus of Human Rights is a global network of over 100 universities working on the advancement of Human Rights and Democratisation through seven Regional Programmes:
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LATMA, The Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Latin American and the Caribbean, coordinated by the International Centre for Political Studies of the
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The HRC maintains a website that gives updates on the International Women’s Rights Activist Watch and a K-12 Human Rights Education Initiative and Curriculum.
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ERMA, The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democracy in South East Europe, coordinated by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the
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that Guantanamo detainees are put at a disadvantage because they are not entitled to a defense counsel until they have already been charged.
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Geneva Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law awarded a competitive research assignment to the Centre’s work on the Gender Unit.
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CES, The Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in the Caucasus, coordinated by the Centre for European Studies at the
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advocates, students, educators, and volunteers in promoting a culture of human rights on the local, national, and international level.
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assesses Italy's behaviour, which aims at fostering an informed and transparent debate on this fundamental feature of public life.
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knowledge of human rights". Established in 1984, it is one of the oldest centers of human rights legal scholarship in the world.
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with the Carpenters Union to introduce children to apprenticeships and technical education as an alternative to college.
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In 2010, the HRC initiated a Close the Gap initiative, which was a learning resource that focused on issues of
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and the country’s first black, female Episcopal priest. The marker was placed near her childhood home in
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Strengthen the research and advocacy capacities of local and international human rights organizations
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APMA, The Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Asia Pacific, Coordinated by
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role of safe shelters in both peacetime communities as well as communities displaced by conflict.
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HRDA, The Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa, coordinated by the
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The Human Rights Centre is also active at the international level. Besides hosting one of the
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EMA, The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, coordinated by the
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locally, nationally, and globally through education, fieldwork, and other efforts.
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establishment of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA).
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refugee and asylum law. The events were free and open to the general public.
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peoples, sexual minorities, and others who are disadvantaged in some way.
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and they currently work towards human rights for the entire continent of
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The HRC's current executive director Alexa Koenig holds a J.D. from the
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European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation
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The Centre partnered with other organizations in launching the
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The HRC at Berkeley lists 3 core goals that guide its service:
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and UN Child Rights Committee member Benyam Dawit Mezmur.
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The Arab Master's Programme in Democracy and Human Rights
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