UWCHR Director Angelina Godoy recently spoke about our work supporting efforts for justice in El Salvador and historic advances in the trial for the infamous El Mozote massacre with Mike McCormick on Seattle radio station KEXP. She also touches on the history of the Center, what we do, our projects and updates including developments in

A message from our Director, Angelina Godoy Dear friends, For the first time in history, eleven survivors of the El Mozote massacre have been summoned to give testimony in a Salvadoran courtroom in the reopened case against former members of the military high command. The stakes couldn’t be higher: these are elderly men and women who

UWCHR is proud to present five fellowships to students for their human rights work. Read their reports about their research at the links below! Sarah Dreier received the 2017 Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Award. She will conduct research for her political science PhD thesis, which examines what drives support for or rejection of women’s rights

Ferguson, ’89, became famous overnight when his office beat the president in court. STORY BY QUINN RUSSELL BROWN FOR COLUMNS MAGAZINE, MAY 6, 2017 Bob Ferguson landed on the front page of newspapers across America thanks to Donald Trump. But Donald Trump wasn’t thanking Bob Ferguson. Washington’s attorney general sued the president over the first

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Contact: uwchr@uw.edu (206) 685-3435 UW Center for Human Rights Honors WA State Attorney General Bob Ferguson SEATTLE, May 5, 2017 – The University of Washington Center for Human Rights will honor state Attorney General Bob Ferguson at its annual spring celebration. Attorney General Ferguson will accept the inaugural UW Center for

MEDIA ADVISORY For May 5, 2017 Contact: uwchr@uw.edu (206) 685-3435 UW Center for Human Rights Honors WA State Attorney General Bob Ferguson The University of Washington Center for Human Rights will honor state Attorney General Bob Ferguson at its annual spring celebration on May 5. Attorney General Ferguson will accept the inaugural UW Center for

Like many students who have the opportunity to travel abroad, Susan Sygall’s year as an exchange student at the University of Queensland in Australia during 1975 was one of the defining experiences of her life. She went camping in the Outback, hitch-hiked across New Zealand, and bussed through Southeast Asia. As a wheelchair-rider and advocate

As scholars at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, we believe research, teaching, and engagement with human rights is today more urgent than ever, yet we are gravely concerned about the future of our enterprise. We are committed to conducting research using the tools of our disciplines – from the social and natural sciences

As part of the Unfinished Sentences project, UWCHR Director Angelina Snodgrass Godoy accompanied a recent delegation to El Salvador, which resulted in a commitment by the government of El Salvador to form a national commission to search for people disappeared during the armed conflict. Read the following report from the delegation by the Due Process of Law