The first report of the UW Center for Human Rights “Immigrant Rights Observatory” monitors the implementation of and compliance with Washington state laws protecting immigrant rights.

Black landmarks: A poem by Danielle Brown hidden gems scattered throughout the landscape nuanced histories concealed in plain sight under acknowledged and almost forgotten                                        …and yet they persist                

Human trafficking is primarily conceptualized through a criminal justice framework, which means efforts to combat this egregious human rights abuse typically focus on law enforcement and the punishment of perpetrators (Merry 2016). However, much less research has been conducted on the impact of these legal processes on survivors of human trafficking who must engage the

Since receiving the Benjamin Linder Justice Fellowship I have been ecstatic to continue my work with the UW Center for Human Rights and have the opportunity to be a part of this community. My work during this fellowship has centered around a newly instated project titled the “Observatorio,” which functions under the umbrella of the

Letter from the Director Let’s see if I can write this letter without using the word “unprecedented.” This deep into the pandemic, I figure we’re all sick of hearing that word. I know I, personally, am eager to return to some sense of normalcy, even as the pandemic and the multiple other crises detonating in

Updates from UWCHR’s various projects from our 2019-2020 Annual Report: Family separation in the Pacific Northwest, our Immigrant Rights Observatory, ICE Air and deportation flights, Unfinished Sentences El Salvador, and the Panama Files and other work for access to information as a human right.

With the generous support from of the Center for Human Rights’ Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld fellowship, I was able to work on my dissertation project through digital ethnography. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my plan to conduct in-person field work in disability rights organizations in China was impeded. Instead, I have shifted to the

I applied for and received a grant through the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Endowed Human Rights Fund for Students on behalf of No New Washington Prisons (NNWP). NNWP is a statewide collective of individuals working together to stop all prison expansion in Washington state. My role in the collective is as a member of

I had the rare opportunity to witness and engage a paradigm shift in the labor relations of apple-packing warehouse workers in Washington’s Yakima Valley earlier this year. There, I supported the women-led strikes at Hansen, Matson, Monson, Jack Frost, Columbia Reach, and Allan Bros. fruit-packing plants, which occurred between May and June of 2020, and

A new set of 94 declassified U.S. government documents have been added to the UW Center for Human Rights’ El Salvador FOIA Collection maintained by UW Libraries. The documents in the new tranche cover a wide range of topics, shedding light on the depth of the U.S.’s role in Salvadoran military operations and revealing a previously unknown cache of intelligence records, of which the UWCHR is now seeking declassification.