Letter from the Director Fifteen years! It’s hard to believe. As I write these words, planning is underway for the celebration of our Center for Human Rights’ fifteen-year anniversary, and I find myself reflecting on all the changes this decade and a half has brought. In some ways, our Center still feels “new”—we’re still small,

Letter from the Director Lately I’ve been contemplating history as cyclical rather than linear. In part this is because I’ve found myself frustrated by the fits and starts of teaching during Covid-19. (We’re on Zoom! Now we’re in person! Now back on Zoom!) We are all eager to leave the pandemic behind, yet it lingers, transforms, resurfaces.

Sometime between October 15-18, the office of Dr. Angelina Godoy, Director of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, was broken into by unknown parties. Her desktop computer was stolen, as well as a hard drive containing about 90% of the information relating to our research in El Salvador. While we have backups of

English En algún momento entre el 15 a 18 de octubre, la oficina de la Dra. Angelina Godoy, Directora del Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de Washington fue allanada por personas desconocidas. Fue robada su computadora, además de un disco duro, el cual almacenaba alrededor del 90% de la información de nuestras investigaciones

On October 2, 2015, the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights filed suit against the US Central Intelligence Agency in federal district court. The case is related to our “Unfinished Sentences” project aiming to promote truth, justice, and reparations for survivors of the armed conflict in El Salvador. Our FOIA research For the past

English El viernes pasado el Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de Washington (University of Washington Center for Human Rights, UW CHR) entabló una demanda contra la CIA en el Tribunal Federal de Distrito en Seattle. Alega que la agencia no ha satisfecho sus obligaciones dictadas por la Ley de Libertad de Información (Freedom

University of Washington Center for Human Rights sues CIA under Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit seeks release of documents relating to wartime atrocities in El Salvador Who: University of Washington Center for Human Rights and Human Rights Institute of the Central American University (IDHUCA) What: Announcement of lawsuit in bi-national press conference, followed by one-day conference

Annual Symposium and Reception Celebrating Human Rights Work May 14th marked another special occasion for UWCHR as our friends and affiliates gathered for the 6th annual spring symposium and awards reception, featuring a new initiative titled,Rethinking Punishment: Human Rights in an Age of Mass Incarceration. The program began with the announcement of the recipients of the

(An excerpt from our 2013-2014 Annual Report) By Angelina Godoy As Baltasar Garzón argues in the essay that opens this Annual Report, the need for justice in El Salvador remains urgent, despite the decades that have passed since the conclusion of the civil war. The urgency and importance of this work was brought home to us