This summer I worked for Reprieve, a human rights advocacy nonprofit. My role was, in part, financially supported by the Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Endowed Fund for Human Rights through the UW Center for Human Rights. Being a Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Fellow allowed me to engage in work that I believe in,

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present five fellowships to students carrying out human rights work! Hannah Garland, 2022 Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Fellow. Hannah is a Law School student, who will be working as legal fellow on the Death Penalty Abolition Team at Reprieve USA, which seeks abolition of capital

The Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Human Rights Fund has supported my dissertation writing during my residence in the People’s Republic of China in the year of 2021. My dissertation, entitled “Cruel Activism: Affect, Labor and Governance of Feminist and LGBT Rights NGOs,” explores the political, economic, and affective dimensions of precarity surrounding NGO activism

In times of crisis, how can communities care for each other’s sustenance needs in a way that affirms and advances these needs as basic rights? Mutual aid (MA) offers a robust area to investigate this question. MA generally refers to “collective coordination to meet each other’s needs … from an awareness that the systems we

It is often presumed that international laws promote human rights and liberal norms. However, international laws are not preserved exclusively for liberal norms. Alarmingly, a growing number of authoritarian countries are codifying illiberal norms in the form of international laws. The topic of authoritarian international laws (AIL), international laws that are largely comprising authoritarian leaders

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present 11 fellowships to students carrying out human rights work!   ALEC FISHER, ABE OSHEROFF AND GUNNEL CLARK FELLOW PhD student in English, is campaigning to demand community-based mental health care as an alternative to incarceration for psychiatric patients in the state of Washington. — MARIA

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                

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

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present seven fellowships to students for their human rights work. ASHLEEN O’BRIEN, ABE OSHEROFF AND GUNNEL CLARK FELLOW Ashleen will continue her organizing work with the No New Women Prison (NNWP) collective. NNWP was formed in November 2019 in response to the Washington State Department of

The Mayerfeld Fellowship is helping me conduct my dissertation research in the Côte d’Ivoire from September – December 2019, which explores the interaction of post-conflict peacebuilding mechanisms after violent conflicts. In transitional justice, there are two main mechanisms that are used for post-conflict reconstruction. These are truth and reconciliation commission as seen in South Africa