2013 Award Recipient Emily Gaverick helped organize and carry out a speaker’s tour to inspire action among US consumers about garment factory safety in South Asia. She brought Bangladeshi garment workers to Washington state – in light of the tragic collapse and fire of factories in Bangladesh – as part of a greater US tour.

Letter from the Director This June marked the three year anniversary of Governor Chris Gregoire’s signing of the legislation creating the Center for Human Rights. And although the relative calm of the summer months opens the opportunity for reflection on our accomplishments over the course of this and the previous two years, it’s certainly no

2012 Award Recipients Kate Fenimore and Marina Fitzpatrick worked with a Cambodian organization called Women’s Development Association (WDA) . They helped the WDA find and train ‘peer-educators’ who will work to disseminate health information (related to maternal health, water sanitation, and in particular the value of using local clinics) into entirely underserved rural populations. Ursula

Annual Symposium & Reception Celebrating Human Rights Work in Our Communities Thanks to all of you who attended our Annual Symposium! As many of you know, this year’s symposium on April 17th focused on the Center for Human Rights’ co-released report entitled “The Growing Human Rights Crisis along the Northern Border,” which was the culmination of a

Transforming Human Rights Education Students Journey from Seattle to Loitokitok, Kenya Our 2011 Caldwell Fund scholars, Abby Temple and Melanie Robinson, returned from Loitokitok this quarter, after overseeing the construction of the Learning Resource Center (LRC) they had envisioned while studying abroad in Kenya two years ago. Abby, a history major, and Melanie, a philosophy