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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Lasse Heerten, Human Rights Program Postdoctoral Fellow in 2014-2015, just published his first book, The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering (Cambridge University... Read more »
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 »
February 18, 2016 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM PST
Social Science Matrix
8th floor of Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley campus
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How can Internet companies be more transparent and accountable in how they monitor... Read more »
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 »