Center for Human Rights, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Center for Human Rights

Abuses in the Air: Sports Travel and the Deportation Industry

Abuses on ICE Air's deportation flights and the sports team that use the same planes.

Panorama of the Pacific Northwest from Space. Image courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center. ISS042-E-294596. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

Protecting Immigrant Rights: Is Washington's Law Working?

State legislation has created new protections for immigrants; but are local police, sheriffs, and jails following the law?

COVID-19 & Health Standards at NWDC

Federal oversight has failed to address longstanding health concerns in immigration detention, which have become more urgent due to COVID-19.

Immigrant Family Separation in Northwest Juvenile Jails

What we know about immigrant youth detained for ICE at Cowlitz County Youth Services Center and NORCOR Juvenile Detention.

Hidden in Plain Sight: ICE Air and the Machinery of Mass Deportation

UWCHR report documents ICE Air's network of deportation flights using a newly-released database.

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Annual Report 2020-2021 - Advancing human rights at home

Two views of the Salish Sea: Left, an undeveloped shoreline. Right, March Point near Anacortes, WA. The Shell Puget Sound Refinery daily processes about 145,000 barrels of crude oil shipped from Canadian via the Trans Mountain Pipeline. If completed, the Trans Mountain Expansion would triple the amount of oil processed, transported, and burned, which will also multiply numerous threats including oil spills, toxic fumes and fires. Photos: Jessica Rose

Collective Justice - A conversation on transformative justice

CJ staff and facilitators celebrate a successful meeting. Teddy McGlynn-Wright says that the role of a facilitator is to model the belief that everyone has worth and value:

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Immigrant Youth in ICE Jails - Prof. Angelina Godoy talks with Anderson Cooper

Conditions at the NWDC - Human rights in immigration detention

El Salvador - Declassified documents point to intelligence cache

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About the Center for Human Rights

About the UWCHR (PDF)

The University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) was established by an initiative of the Washington state legislature in 2009, following a decade of ambitious program-building on all three University of Washington campuses.

Our work is distinguished by UWCHR’s uniquely hands-on research mission, inscribed in the legislation that established our Center. Everything we do is conducted through partnership with organizations on the front lines of global human rights struggles. We place the resources of the university at the service of real-world social change, and we evaluate our success in terms of practical accomplishments for justice.

Our Mission

The University of Washington Center for Human Rights is committed to interdisciplinary excellence in the education of undergraduate and graduate students in the field of human rights; promoting human rights as a core area of faculty and graduate research; and engaging productively with local, regional, national, and international organizations and policymakers to advance respect for human rights.