From March to September of 2018, I had the privilege of working as a fellow at the Center for Human Rights, made possible by the Jennifer Caldwell Endowed Fund. My work for CHR consisted in constructing an archive for the Northwest Detention Center Resistance (La Resistencia), one of our partner organizations. La Resistencia is a

Within international relations, there is substantial research on how new norms spread and how states decide to join treaties, but very little research on how norms die or decay.  This is an oversight, as norms are not always positive.  We can frame the fight against slavery or shift away from infanticide in terms of the

Letter from the Director Five years already! Since the UW CHR’s founding in June 2009 we’ve been launched headlong into the process of institution-building. When June rolled around this year, I could hardly believe five years had already passed. Happily, the anniversary provided a welcome occasion to look back on the work we’ve accomplished, and

International Human Rights Day: UW CHR Receives a Seattle Human Rights Award On December 10, 2013, the UW Center for Human Rights was honored by the City of Seattle with its annual Human Rights Award. Each year, the Seattle Commission for Human Rights and the Seattle Office for Civil Rights celebrate the anniversary of the