New video footage released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows the moments leading up to, and directly following, a February 1, 2023 incident involving the use of chemical agents by GEO Group guards on detained people participating in a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center. This footage was released following a lawsuit by

The below text is featured in the UWCHR 2022-2023 Annual Report. In May of 2023 UWCHR celebrated our first in-person Spring Symposium since 2019. On the evening of May 11, 2023, we were honored to highlight our newest project and collaboration, Strategies for Massage Parlor Workers’ Rights. Student researcher and Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) member

John Gibler discussed his book, I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa (City Lights Open Media, 2017), with students in Jackson School of International Studies Professor Vanessa Freije‘s Fall 2023 course, Narcoculture: Propaganda and Publicity in the War on Drugs. Gibler’s book was

This article was originally published by the UW College of the Environment and features UWCHR’s Indigenous Rights and Environmental Sustainability project. In 2023, a journey to build trust and affect positive change in our world led to a collection of transformative storytelling videos about the Salish Sea and Indigenous culture centered on student voices. A

UWCHR steering committee member Chandan Reddy has been named a 2023 “Freedom Scholar” by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Chandan is an associate professor of gender, women and sexuality studies and of the comparative history of ideas at the University of Washington. He joined the Center for Human Rights’ steering committee in 2022 and co-leads the

The below text is featured in the UWCHR 2022-2023 Annual Report. King County, Port of Seattle Must Demand Humane Conditions for ICE Deportation Flights By Angelina Snodgrass Godoy Reprinted with permission from South Seattle Emerald, read the article online here.   On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, ICE resumed its deportation flights out of King County’s Boeing

The below text is featured in the UWCHR 2022-2023 Annual Report. Written by Phil Neff Over the past five years, the Washington state legislature has passed a landmark series of laws aimed at safeguarding immigrant rights, including the Courts Open to All Act (2019), Keep Washington Working (2020), HB 1090 (2021), and HB 1470 (2023). The

The below text is featured in the UWCHR 2022-2023 Annual Report. Written by Chandan Reddy We completed year one of a two-year research effort, the Strategies for Massage Parlor Workers’ Rights project. Collaborating with the community-based organization Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP), our UWCHR funded research project seeks to understand better the set of overlapping laws,

The below text is featured in the UWCHR 2022-2023 Annual Report. Written by Angelina Godoy In 2023, conditions at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) came once again under scrutiny as those detained in the facility staged a series of hunger strikes to protest conditions, while legislators passed a bill mandating increased state oversight of all

The below text is featured in the UWCHR 2022-2023 Annual Report. Written by Jonathan Warren It is exciting to report the tremendous accomplishments achieved this past year and the foundation we have created for future collaboration between Chief Leschi Schools and the University of Washington through the Indigenous Rights and Environmental Sustainability project. In spring