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1949 -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is first printed at the University of California-Berkeley Press
1986 -- Students erect a shantytown outside California Hall
1964-65 -- The Free Speech Movement
1978 -- The Gay Rights Movement organizes annual Pride parades in San Francisco

The Human Rights Program at UC Berkeley

Human rights have become the moral language of today, the idiom in which we discuss our common humanity and weigh competing claims for resources, rights and protections. Through its interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives, the Human Rights Program at UC - Berkeley investigates the political, historical, legal, economic, social, psychological, and representational dynamics of human rights. Learn more »

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IMPORTANT Fall 2016 announcement: Are you an HRI Minor student graduating Spring or Fall 2017?

Thursday, September 22, 2016
If you are an HRI Minor student planning to graduate in Spring or Fall 2017 and have not yet taken the HRI Minor Thesis Workshop, please contact Lynsay Skiba at lynsayskiba@berkeley by October 15,... Read more »

Gun Violence in America: 2016-17 HRP event series

Thursday, September 22, 2016
Please join us for the 2016-2017 UC Berkeley event series, Gun Violence in America, a collaboration of the Human Rights Program, Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, Henderson Center for Social... Read more »

Corporate Data and Human Rights: A Panel on Corporate Transparency and Accountability Around Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 3:00pm
February 18, 2016 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM PST Social Science Matrix 8th floor of Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley campus     How can Internet companies be more transparent and accountable in how they monitor... Read more »

The [in]Justice System: How California prisons are leading and lagging

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 to Friday, May 6, 2016
ABOUT THE [IN]JUSTICE SYSTEM SERIES United States prisons and jails—incarcerating 25 percent of all prisoners in the world—are the subject of unprecedented public attention. Mass incarceration,... Read more »
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Human Rights Center

The UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law conducts research on war crimes and other serious violations of humanitarian and human rights law.