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Newsletter | December 2025

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OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

Spring events will be announced soon! Have a nice winter break!

DHRC NEWS

Human Rights Internships Guide

New internship guide just dropped! Check out our Human Rights Internship Guide for over 30 internship and fellowship opportunities in human rights around the world! 


Explore our Human Rights Internships Guide ->

Oliver W. Koonz Prize for Human Rights - OPEN NOW!

Win $500 for your outstanding human rights essay or project! Submit your work to be considered for the Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize anytime between now and April 10. Work created for a Duke course is eligible, but not required! Visit our website for submission guidelines and instructions.

VIDEO: Seeking Human Rights for the Dead

Thank you to everyone who joined us last month at the Seeking Human Rights for the Dead: The Case of Massachusetts event, sponsored by the Human Rights for the Dying and Dead Initiative!

Watch the full event video:

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Perspectives on Gun Violence from Ieva Jusionyte & DHRC Director Adam Rosenblatt


In light of the horrific attacks at Brown University, Bondi Beach in Australia, and elsewhere around the globe, the Duke Human Rights Center is sharing some perspectives on gun violence and human rights from our community.

 

Dr. Ieva Jusionyte is the Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and the Watson Family University Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University. She won the DHRC’s Juan E. Méndez Book Award this year for her book, Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border. Her essay on the shootings at Brown was published in The Boston Globe on December 17, 2025.


Read it without paywall ->

 

Dr. Adam Rosenblatt is the Faculty Director of the Duke Human Rights Center, Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke, and a cartoonist. His comic, "guns vs. Rights," was researched and drawn in the immediate aftermath of the Brown and Bondi Beach shootings.


View "guns vs. Rights" comic ->

From the Duke Human Rights Blog

Celebrations and Hopes

Human Rights Day is celebrated around the world each year on December 10, the day the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.


This year, we asked Duke students, staff, and faculty what they are celebrating and hoping for on this year's Human Rights Day.


Read what they had to say on the Duke Human Rights Blog ->

From the Duke Human Rights Blog

Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth Barahona

Elizabeth Barahona is a Human Rights Certificate graduate, Class of 2018. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University. She spoke with FHI's Assistant Director of Communications, Jamal Michel, about the impact the Human Rights Certificate had on her time at (and after) Duke.


Read Alumni Spotlight on the Duke Human Rights Blog ->

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NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS


Full Frame Undergraduate Fellows 2026

Duke University students - apply now!


Deadline: March 6, 2026 


Become a fellow at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of Duke Center for Documentary Studies, and immerse yourself in one of the world’s premier documentary festivals! This opportunity is open to all Duke undergraduates and takes place April 16 – 19, 2026, right here in Durham. Read more about eligibility and how to apply here!

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