On Monday October 5, 2015, UWCHR held a conference on Access to Information as a Human Right. View conference recordings below. This fall, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights hosted a one-day conference, “Access to Information as a Human Right,” on October 5, 2015, at the UW School of Law. Grounded in the UWCHR’s partnerships

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

Letter from the Director As is common after graduation, several of my students asked me for career advice this June. In our conversations, held in coffee shops and on park benches in the beautiful Seattle summer, I shared some version of the quote from Aristotle, “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross,