By Anu Taranath   In March with support from UWCHR, my co-director Dr. Eric Opoku Agyemang and I were able to host three activists to speak with our students, one each from Ghana, India and Mexico. Our class, “Global Service Learning and the Politics of Help,” occurred in Winter Quarter 2024 and culminated in students traveling

On Thursday, May 16th, 2024, the UW Center for Human Rights hosted our annual Spring Symposium and Awards Celebration, bringing together students, faculty, organizational partners, and the UWCHR broader community to highlight the impact of UWCHR collaborations and celebrate our students. Alongside celebrating UWCHR’s 15th anniversary, this year’s event featured a storytelling project collaboration between

Written by Nicole Grabiel Buenos Aires is hot in December. I knew this, theoretically at least, before UW Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) director Angelina Godoy, associate director Gai-Hoai Nguyen, and I boarded our flights to the Argentine capital. I had packed linen pants, my lightest tops, sunscreen, a water bottle, and my trusty pair

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present eight fellowships to students carrying out human rights work. Learn more about our funding opportunities here.   Lola Burton, recipient of the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark award, is an undergraduate student in Law, Societies, and Justice, working to stop deportations from Boeing Field. Sofia

This report is part of a series regarding Human Rights Conditions at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, based on ongoing research efforts and released to highlight initial findings in the urgent context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Contents: • Introduction • Background, Methodology, and Human Rights Standards • Sanitation of Food and Laundry •

Investigando Nuestras Raíces Learning About Yourself and Your Surroundings Through Research & Records   Ya no me siento invisible Ya puedo ser quien soy yo Busco de dónde vengo que me perdí Busco de dónde vengo y aquí está mi raíz – La Raíz de Mi Tierra Lila Downs, Niña Pastori, and Soledad Pastorutti  

New video footage released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows the moments leading up to, and directly following, a February 1, 2023 incident involving the use of chemical agents by GEO Group guards on detained people participating in a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center. This footage was released following a lawsuit by

The below text is featured in the UWCHR 2022-2023 Annual Report. In May of 2023 UWCHR celebrated our first in-person Spring Symposium since 2019. On the evening of May 11, 2023, we were honored to highlight our newest project and collaboration, Strategies for Massage Parlor Workers’ Rights. Student researcher and Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) member

John Gibler discussed his book, I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa (City Lights Open Media, 2017), with students in Jackson School of International Studies Professor Vanessa Freije‘s Fall 2023 course, Narcoculture: Propaganda and Publicity in the War on Drugs. Gibler’s book was

This article was originally published by the UW College of the Environment and features UWCHR’s Indigenous Rights and Environmental Sustainability project. In 2023, a journey to build trust and affect positive change in our world led to a collection of transformative storytelling videos about the Salish Sea and Indigenous culture centered on student voices. A