Since we last spoke with Professor Gunnar Almgren about his book Health Care as a Right of Citizenship: The Continuing Evolution of Reform, congressional Republicans again attempted, and failed, to pass a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Shortly after, President Trump issued two executive orders impacting insurance markets and access to health care. We

Letter from the Director Dear friends, This has been a challenging year for human rights. In the United States and around the world, the very concept of human rights has faced growing resistance as political movements have demanded rollbacks of rights protections for people of color, workers, the disabled, women, and LGBTQ populations. New expressions

During 2016-2017, UW faculty, students, and alumni worked with community members and Insight Prison Project to begin facilitating restorative justice circles at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, WA. Many people have become aware of the challenges posed by mass incarceration. Many now know, for example, that the U.S. has the world’s largest prison population,

Rethinking Punishment project co-director Prof. Katherine Beckett is featured again on the latest installment of Cited Podcast. The episode is the first in a series of four that Prof. Beckett will co-host with Cited Podcast. Listen now! In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn’t

This research memo represents the first in a series reporting results of UWCHR’s new initiative on Human Rights at Home, which we hope will help increase transparency and inform human rights advocates, the public, and our elected leaders on immigrant rights issues in our state. As part of this effort, UWCHR has requested information from

During early 2017, U.S. political headlines were dominated by political maneuvering and grassroots organizing prompted by Congressional attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Now health care reform is in the news again with the announcement of Senator Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare For All” bill. Gunnar Almgren is a Professor at the UW School of Social

On June 19, 2017, the first day of the summer strawberry harvest, farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farm in the Skagit Valley began picking berries in the early morning fog. As they did so, they were making history. After four years of struggle that grew from local walk-outs and strikes to a national boycott against the

On the fifth anniversary of the founding of the UW Center for Human Rights’ Freedom of Information project in June 2017, the University of Washington Libraries have published a collection of declassified United States government documents which the Center obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. UWCHR Research Fellow Emily Willard shares the history

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