Center for Human Rights

Stylized digital collage of border patrol and police agents peering into a bunch of screens with Flock ALPR data. A cyan-colored triangle starts at the agents, as if their line of vision into Flock data.

Report: Leaving the Door Wide Open

Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement

Outline of WA state divided into three sections overlaid with handcuffs, jail cell bars, and a Global X airplane.

Report: Gross Human Rights Violations in Washington State

Enforced Disappearance and Refoulement

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Compliance Theater

The NWDC’s Unenforced Contract

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"TPD Doesn’t Respond Here"

Patterns of Neglect in Tacoma Police Department’s Response to Reports of Crimes at the NWDC

Three black and white photos, almost sepia toned, showing significant immigration related locations across Washington state: The Department of Homeland Security building in Tukwila, the building downtown Seattle where immigration court happens, and the Peace Arch at the Washington/Canada Blaine border crossing.

The Border is Everywhere

Immigration Enforcement in the Contemporary Pacific Northwest

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Paths to Compliance: The Effort to Protect Immigrant Rights in Washington State

After five years of the Keep Washington Working act, this new report examines compliance with Washington state's immigrant rights "sanctuary" law

icons of airplanes, dollar signs, different sports items like soccer balls and lacrosse sticks, and shackles are arranged across the screen with a red line and red circles connecting them, hinting at the association between sports, air travel, detention, and financial gain.

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.

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About the Center for Human Rights

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.