Jessica Ramirez, a recent graduate in American Ethnic Studies, spent the last several months coordinating with Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), an independent farmworkers union made up of migrant farm workers from the Skagit Valley (an hour north of Seattle). In her application for funding from the Osheroff-Clark Fund, Jessica wrote: “In 2013, the

During October and November of 1981, U.S. officials received reports of the slaughter of civilians by the Salvadoran military. Now known as the La Quesera massacre, this marked a new phase in the military’s strategy, leading over the next few months to a series of atrocities including the Santa Cruz and El Mozote massacres. Newly

Sometime between October 15-18, the office of Dr. Angelina Godoy, Director of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, was broken into by unknown parties. Her desktop computer was stolen, as well as a hard drive containing about 90% of the information relating to our research in El Salvador. While we have backups of

English En algún momento entre el 15 a 18 de octubre, la oficina de la Dra. Angelina Godoy, Directora del Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de Washington fue allanada por personas desconocidas. Fue robada su computadora, además de un disco duro, el cual almacenaba alrededor del 90% de la información de nuestras investigaciones

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English El viernes pasado el Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de Washington (University of Washington Center for Human Rights, UW CHR) entabló una demanda contra la CIA en el Tribunal Federal de Distrito en Seattle. Alega que la agencia no ha satisfecho sus obligaciones dictadas por la Ley de Libertad de Información (Freedom

Español On Friday, October 2, 2015, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UW CHR) filed a lawsuit against the CIA in the U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleging that the agency has failed to meet its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The UW CHR is seeking the release of U.S. government

University of Washington Center for Human Rights sues CIA under Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit seeks release of documents relating to wartime atrocities in El Salvador Who: University of Washington Center for Human Rights and Human Rights Institute of the Central American University (IDHUCA) What: Announcement of lawsuit in bi-national press conference, followed by one-day conference

2015 marked the first year where funds from the Jennifer Caldwell Endowed Fund in Human Rights provided quarterlong support for a graduate student, Ursula Mosqueira, to conduct hands-on human rights work. Ursula, a Ph.D. student in Sociology, spent the summer and fall in El Salvador to conduct research with a group of former political prisoners

On Monday October 5, 2015, UWCHR held a conference on Access to Information as a Human Right. View conference recordings below. This fall, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights hosted a one-day conference, “Access to Information as a Human Right,” on October 5, 2015, at the UW School of Law. Grounded in the UWCHR’s partnerships