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UCHRS Trip to Honduras

 

In January 2010, UCHRS undertook a week-long pilot project for J-term human rights studies and research. A small group of students, under the supervision of UCHRS Associate Director Monica Maher, had the opportunity to travel to Honduras, meeting with labor, women’s, religious, public health, and peasant rights leaders.


Come hear graduate student participants, UCHRS Associate Director, Monica Maher and UCHRS Program Coordinator, Lauren Herman report back and offer "Reflections on Human Rights in Honduras after the Coup."
Wednesday February 10, 12pm
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1736 Cambridge Street


Writers At Risk

 

Jane Unrue

 

 

 

This month, Scholars at Risk Committee member Jane Unrue, of the Expository Writing program, is featured in the Harvard Gazette speaking about the new Writers at Risk initiative that she has brought to Expos and the Visiting Writers Series.


Academic solidarity, and the Scholars at Risk program, is at the center of human rights work at Harvard, the most robust member institution in the International Scholars at Risk Network. Since 2002, Harvard has sponsored 20 Scholars, each year hosting between four and six writers, lawyers, physicians and scientists endangered in their own countries.


Former Scholar Shariar Mandanipour was the first of three writers to take up residence at Harvard as a Scholar at Risk. His most recent novel, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, was released earlier this year.

 

 

News & Events

 

Since 1/12, the Harvard Humantarian Initiative has been publishing episodic updates on the Harvard-wide response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti. See HHI's  page on Haiti here.

 

1//17 - UCHRS Director Jacqueline Bhabha quoted in Times of India article on the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) in India:"We get to learn a lot of embroidery techniques from these workshops from the women, besides of course, getting inspiration from their indomitable spirits."

 

1/13 - UCHRS Fellow Yang Jianli has an article in Foreign Policy on Google in China.

 

1/11 - Harvard Scholars at Risk featured in a piece on women scholars in exile.

 

UCHRS Scholar Zerisenay Habtezion has a chapter in the new monograph Environmental Governance and Climate Change in Africa: Legal Perspectives published by the Institute for Security Studies.


ETHNIC STUDIES: Harvard's Educational Policy Committee approves new secondary field in "Studies of Ethnicity, Indigeneity, Migration, and Human Rights." See article in The Crimson and website of the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies for details.

 

Four UCHRS summer scholars featured in Harvard Magazine.


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Rob Quinn and the Scholars at Risk Network featured in the Christian Science Monitor.


UCHRS Scholar Thrishantha Nanayakkara launches new book Devi! Read his article, "The Notion of Citizenship and Political Stability" on the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense Website.


The Scholar Rescue Fund reports to the UN on academics under threat. Read more.

 

Click here for more news on human rights at Harvard and beyond.


VIDEOS OF UCHRS EVENTS NOW ONLINE!


60 Years of Human Rights Part 1
60 Years of Human Rights Part 2


Professor Darius Rejali Lecture "Torture and Democracy: What Now?"


Ambassador Peter Maurer Lecture "Promoting Human Rights and Protecting Human Dignity Through the UN"


Justice Goldstone Lecture "The Legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"


JFK Forum video: "60 Years of Human Rights: The Idea and the Reality" Featuring Harvard President Drew Faust, Professor Amartya Sen, Doctor Paul Farmer


Watch a video of the program at the JFK Forum (link above) with a dramatic reading directed by the A.R.T. in collaboration with Physicians for Human Rights and see and hear a concert by Mali's Diva, Oumou Sangare!

 

Opportunities

Still Looking for Courses?
Human Rights Course Guide
for 2009-10

Summer Grants

2/12 DEADLINE - APPLY NOW!

"My two-month internship in Gulu, Northern Uganda was by far the most shaping, influential experience of my life, rich with new cultural perspectives, academic and personal reflection, and the opportunity to grow and develop as a human being." -- Past UCHRS Grant Recipient

Hauser Human Rights Research Fellowships

NEW Deadline: February 26, 2010

Funding for year-long postgraduate human rights research project at Harvard. Find out more here.


New PT Student Job Opportunity at UCHRS

Help compile our weekly digest.  Find out more here.


SAR

The deadline for Scholars at Risk nominations for 2010-11 has now passed.  Mid-year nominations are considered on an emergency basis.

Please see here for further information and nomination forms.

 

 

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