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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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News & Announcements

Professor Sarah Winter (UConn) to give talk: "Have-his-carcase": Habeas Writs, (Human) Rights, and Pickwick"

Monday, December 8, 2014 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
  Sarah Winter is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles... Read more »

Nov. 14-15 Conference on Memory Without Borders: Violence, Justice, and Practices of Remembrance

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 10:00am to Saturday, November 15, 2014 - 7:00pm
Organizers:  Debarati Sanyal, French, UC Berkeley and Villashini Cooppan, Literature, UC Santa Cruz Conference website: http://memorywithoutborders.tumblr.com November 14-15, 2014 | Townsend Center... Read more »

2015 GRADUATING SENIORS: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 9:00am
If you are planning to graduate with the HRI Minor in Spring 2015 or Fall 2015, please email the Minor's Program Coordinator, Lynsay Skiba, right away at lynsayskiba@berkeley.edu to learn more about... Read more »

Human Rights Program Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellows

Friday, August 15, 2014
The Berkeley Human Rights Program is delighted to welcome Lasse Heerten (PhD, Freie Universität Berlin) and Zain Lakhani (PhD, University of Pennsylvania), who will begin postdoctoral fellowships... 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.